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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: Votáil.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: We are saying "Votáil".
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: I call "Votáil".
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: We are on the same team on this one. The provision has the potential to diminish the independence of the commission and re-politicise it. The sitting members could be tempted to act or vote in a certain way to garner Government approval and ensure being reappointed. It is only fair that a proper process takes place.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: It is no slur on the Minister. I made the point in the context of human nature being what it is.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: The Minister pointed out that these people could be capable and worth their places on the commission. That is possible and there is a good chance that they would be nominated to it again by the PAS, which is a political animal anyway. Given that one of the driving motivations of the Bill is to try to depoliticise the process, we are trying to create a situation in which a Minister cannot...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: Why did the Government not make it a six-year term if that argument was solid? It is making the appointment a three-year term. Aside from the points that we have made about depoliticising this operation, many people, even very good ones, stay on boards for too long. Consider the teaching profession. Some of the most brilliant teachers have stayed in it for too long and do not do their...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: Deputy O'Callaghan is still a bit fresh.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: We will give the boys the benefit of the doubt. Generally speaking, freshening up boards is positive.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: We will press it.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: Jim would like to say something on Bar Council.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Properties (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of non-serving Defence Forces personnel residing in accommodation in the Curragh Camp; the position regarding the maintenance of the accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3640/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Properties (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: My question relates to the status of so-called "overholders" at the Curragh Camp. Deputy Clare Daly and I raised this issue in 2013 with the former Minister, Alan Shatter. The Ceann Comhairle raised it in June 2015 and Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin raised it in December 2016. After four years since Deputy Clare Daly and I first raised this issue, will it ever be resolved? Will the Minister of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Properties (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: Both the Minister of State and the former Minister, Deputy Coveney, previously acknowledged in the Chamber that there are a number of vulnerable residents in accommodation in the Curragh Camp. The truth of the matter is that the Department is managing these houses into decline. There are some difficult circumstances prevailing to which the Department is turning a blind eye. I accept the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Properties (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: I accept the Department is not in the business of supplying housing but it still has a legal and moral obligation to the remaining residents in the buildings in question. I do not want to be making a big deal over the individual complaint I have had from an elderly woman but I will correspond with the Minister of State on it. I find it an incredible approach for the Department to engage...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Properties (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: The Minister of State needs to take a different approach to how the Department manages the decline of these housing units.
- Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: 32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the Defence Forces involvement with Operation Sophia; the status of the LÉ Niamh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3364/18]
- Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: I have more than supplementary questions, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Minister of State will be aware that a House of Lords inquiry found that Operation Sophia failed to meet the objective of its mandate to disrupt the business model of people smuggling. Some smugglers were arrested and some boats have been destroyed but the people being caught are well down the food chain. It is like...
- Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: People smuggling begins onshore. Nothing is being done to make these countries sustainable. Their economies are in bits, more often than not because of western interference. Does the Minister of State accept that? We had to listen to the Fine Gael Labour Party Government support the bombing of Libya in 2011. Does the Minister of State admit now that was a major mistake? The manner in...
- Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)
Mick Wallace: Does the Government accept that it supported the bombing of Libya?