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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Mr. Nugent said in his statement that "In December 2017, An Garda Síochána received approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to use the Office of Government Procurement to tender for a new skilled resource contract through open competition." This includes support for the strategic transformation office, STO, and I want to touch on it. The STO was set up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Has the STO budget overspend been discussed by the ICT governance committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Mr. Nugent is the chief administrative officer. The buck for finance and ICT issues stops with him. Mr. Nugent is also the chairperson of the ICT governance board. Since September 2017, Mr. Nugent has been a member of the Garda audit committee that audits ICT expenditure. Ms Josephine Feehily told the committee that it "is a conflict of interest" but her hands are tied. Does Mr. Nugent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Does Mr. Nugent agree or disagree with her statement, that it "is a conflict of interest"? Does Mr. Nugent leave the room when the audit committee is discussing ICT issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Moving on to the issue of public procurement, in 2016, there were 94 breaches of public procurement amounting to €27.8 million. In 2015, there were 73 breaches. Can Mr. Nugent tell me how many breaches he expects for 2017?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: As a matter of interest, when can we expect that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank Mr. Nugent. Finally, on the emails, Mr. Nugent states today that a report was sent to the Policing Authority on the use of email but that "this report related to organisational use of email and not email use by any individual within An Garda Síochána." Last year, Mr. Nugent told me:I do not know if I did a specific report. I certainly looked at emails about 12 months ago....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Today, Mr. Nugent is telling us that he did not examine specific emails, but last year he told us that he had looked at specific emails.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Did Mr. Nugent not say in his contribution today that he had not examined specific emails?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Is Mr. Nugent telling us today that he did not examine specific emails?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank Mr. Nugent.

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will do it for less.

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: The 2012 Fine Gael and Labour stimulus plan spent €2.25 billion on capital projects, predominantly based on the use of public private partnerships. It was announced at a time when the use of PPP contracts was on the wane worldwide. That same year, the UK Treasury was in the process of reviewing its PPP system because as the Treasury review put it, there was "widespread concern that...

Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: Over two months ago I asked the Minister in a parliamentary question for his views on the reliability of the route profitability figures published in the 2016 rail review carried out by Roland Berger from the National Transport Authority, NTA, and whether his attention had been drawn to anomalies in the figures in the report. His response was that his Department had consulted the NTA and the...

Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I am glad to hear the Minister confirm again that he does not have any intention of closing the line. However, I could be forgiven for suspecting that Irish Rail does not have much of an appetite to keep it open. I still insist that this particular report, which would have been driven and very much determined by Irish Rail, is a flawed one. The Minister and the Taoiseach may not be captive...

Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: What about the environment? Is that an issue?

Tillage Sector: Motion (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I apologise because I have not read the report and I did not hear the contributions of the Chairman or the Minister. I was caught at something else. People probably find me a strange visitor to the agricultural sector, especially the Minister. I usually come from an environmental perspective, but for the record, I grew sugar beet myself.

Tillage Sector: Motion (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I used to take a bit of land and-----

Tillage Sector: Motion (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I did. I had to do everything with it. I picked up 20 tonnes of loose beet off the field by hand after the machine was done, which took me a week. I was born on a 36 acre farm. Most small farms tend to be a mixture of different aspects of farming involving cereals and different animals, be they pigs, cattle or sheep. Small farmers tended to have a bit of everything and there was...

Tillage Sector: Motion (26 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister told me that our emissions are grand and everything is rosy whereas the EU has told us that we are one of the biggest culprits when it comes to methane emissions. The EU would say that the Irish are not doing enough to address climate change challenges.