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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)
Mick Wallace: I will be brief as I do not want to keep everyone here all day. We heard yesterday that recidivism in this area was much lower than we had thought. In 2013, the Irish Prison Service conducted a study on re-offending which found that the offence groups with the lowest rates of re-offending were homicide, at 26.2%, followed by sexual offences, at 28.2%. While it is obvious that the rate of...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)
Mick Wallace: I will make a number of points. We all agree that most judges have no problem in working within the legislation. However, we should all remember that, as legislators, we have a serious responsibility. We can have a huge impact on people's lives in what we do and say here and the legislation we draw up. I am not sure drawing up legislation which appears to be at odds with much of the...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)
Mick Wallace: We will bin it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: That is not true in Wexford. Unemployment is over 15% there.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for debate. Two weeks ago during Leaders' Questions I raised with the Taoiseach the ODCE report on the mishandling of the investigation into the chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Mr. Seán FitzPatrick, and his annual warehousing of personal loans from the bank. I said I had seen the ODCE report and that it was a whitewash. I wish to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: The way the Government has dealt with the issue raises many questions. One of the key areas on which the Taoiseach focused during his leadership battle with the Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney, was white collar crime. He said he would make it a priority, but he has done nothing about it since.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: If it is a priority, why will the Government not publish the ODCE report? It makes no sense. There are many unanswered questions about the FitzPatrick trial, the ODCE's handling of it, the Garda's involvement and the decision to pursue a second trial. I may be cynical, but it seems that this suits the Government because it wants the issue to go away and is happy to hide behind the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: The Minister's report does not give us the answers for which we are looking.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: The Minister is defending the director, but I am not attacking him. I had a meeting with him last Friday. I do not know how often the Minister has met him. I had a meeting with him last Friday and I found him to be an impressive individual.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: The Minister would do him a favour by publishing his report. Not publishing it is not doing him any favours. The Minister's report does not outline any of the investigative failures or shortcomings that Judge Aylmer identified. I can tell the Minister that 15 pages of his report after he threw out the case are far more informative - 20 times more informative - than her account. The...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: Mary Ellen Ring threw out the case in 2015.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: 125. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the discrepancies between the number of persons waiting for home care packages in different counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50868/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he plans to take to address the estimated deficit of 1.5 million hours in the provision of home care packages in 2018 and 2019 detailed in a report (details supplied). [50869/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: I do not know if the Minister is aware of it but Deputy Daly and I have been in Syria twice in the past two years. When one goes there, the story is very different from what one reads in the media or hears on RTÉ. In the past two years, since the government defeated the jihadists in many areas of the country, more than 1.5 million Syrians have returned. I do not want to go into the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: I accept that the Government was right to take in Syrians but given that more than 1.5 million have returned, and more than 1 million more will return in the next 18 months, would it not reconsider taking in people such as the Afghans and more Kurds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: Is the Department not allowed make that call? Is it being told by the Europeans to just take Syrians and Eritreans for the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: On another issue, the Minister told us last week that 600 people in direct provision had received their status but cannot get out of direct provision. Is the Government doing anything to make it possible for them to get out by actively finding places for them to live? We know there is a desperate housing shortage for so many people in Ireland. However, it requires action on the Government's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: The Minister of State spoke of people coming in to Ireland and going immediately into the community. That sounds great and it is good if it happens. However, is it not the case that we will have a need for some sort of entity like direct provision for a long time yet? The direct provision that we have was never meant to be as permanent as it has become. Has there been consideration at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: The Minister of State said there was no signing in or out and that people can come and go from the centres. I know a refugee who was in Waterford who was studying in Dublin. He was thrown out of the place in Waterford because he was not at the centre for enough nights during the week. That is the truth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)
Mick Wallace: I will.