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Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: This question relates to the State agency and registered charity, Pobal, which administers funds on behalf of the State. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has the majority of contracts with Pobal. Can the Minister outline the services Pobal provides on behalf of her Department, the fees charged by Pobal and, most important, if the contract with Pobal was awarded following a...

Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister. An internal audit of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs completed in March 2014 examined the role played by Pobal and found some serious problems. I acknowledge the Minister was not in office at the time but I have to hand a copy of the audit report and it is pretty worrying. It states those involved understood that the Department employed Pobal without a...

Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: Did the Department of Children and Youth Affairs get legal advice on Pobal being outside of the rules of the EU procurement directives? If so, when was the legal advice given? Will she publish it?

Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said it is independent. We have not seen the legal advice on that. Does the Minister not think that not seeking tenders and dealing with one contractor is bad business? In 2016, €204 million was disbursed via Pobal on behalf of the Minister's Department. Even though Pobal is a State agency, it does not do this work for free and charges fees. It was paid €13.5...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Rights (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on a report (details supplied); if she is satisfied that the measures she has taken to address the problems facing children here are working; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9000/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or officials in his Department have been lobbied by vested interests in the past eight months, in relation the introduction of a possible land tax; if his attention has been drawn to comments made by the managing director of a company (detail supplied); if his Department has conducted research on the way in which other...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to initiate discussions with the Minister for Finance to amend the vacant site levy, particularly in relation to the reduced levy rates 0.75% and 1.5% that are applied if the outstanding loans are between 75% and 100%, 50% and 75% of market value; their further plans to amend the zero rate of levy that applies if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the clause in the affordable purchase scheme regulations (details supplied) will lead to a vote seeking and create an unhealthy relationship between members of the local authority and persons that are seeking to apply for the affordable purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9683/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the units built under an exemption (details supplied) will be subject to self certification by the owners in terms of the building regulations including fire and disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9682/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Prosecutions Data (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for the use of false identities to acquire driving licences in each of the years from 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [9812/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to parliamentary question No. 144 of 14 February 2018, the dates for which each special exemption order were granted. [9917/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Orders (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all special exemption orders granted by Court District No. 17 from 16 February to 16 March 2015; and the date granted, date granted for, premises and district court, in tabular form. [9918/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Orders (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the licensed premises granted temporary and annual dance licences by Court District Number 17 from 1 January to 31 December 2016. [9919/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Orders (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the licenced premises granted temporary and annual dance licences by Court District Number 17 from 1 January to 31 December 2014. [9920/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council (28 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 40. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether the €4,000 offered by the Heritage Council for an oral history project is enough to halt the demise in the construction of traditional Slaney cots and traditional cot fishing practices on the river Slaney; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10097/18]

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: I give my full support to this important motion, which addresses a specific situation that has being unfolding, in particular, in the west of Ireland, for many years. There is not a tradition of harvesting seaweed off the coast of my area in south Wexford but, as I swim on Bannow Island on a regular basis and have to wade through 40 m or 50 m of seaweed before I get to clear water, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Chairman and I promise I will not be too long. The two submissions are very powerful and they speak for themselves. The committee has learned a lot from them. It does not do much to allay many of the fears we have around how An Garda Síochána operates. When Dr. Singh was before the committee he was at pains to talk about some wonderful co-operation and work at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: That is not just a learning curve. This is disingenuous, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: A member of the public would have to go through this with a fine-tooth comb in order to discover what actually transpired. Do the witnesses not think that this amounts to nothing short of a cover-up by senior management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Earlier, Ms West stated:... on 12 May, 2017, as a direct consequence of the letter I had sent internally the day before, I received a telephone call ... I am unable to say who made this call. During this call, I was made aware that a report, which I had submitted on 11 April 2017 for onward transmission to the Policing Authority ... had never been sent to it. I was informed that this report...