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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: Mr. John Moran has said that delivering sustainable and affordable homes for people near their workplaces and social networks is a core part of the agency's work. This will not be achieved if the Government does not address the elephant in the room, which relates to land and the problems around that. The Government is not taking landbanking legislation seriously and it just wants the issue...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: It is useless. The Minister knows it is useless.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: If this land issue is not dealt with correctly, it will be more of a problem than a solution.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will re-evaluate the HAP limits for Gorey, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24028/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Building Finance Ireland Establishment (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is still working with the Department of Finance on the HBFI loan scheme; if updates can be given about the scheme with regard to the input of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24029/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Controls (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing rent controls for Gorey, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24026/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the application of the vacant site levy and vacant site register is varying from county to county resulting in varying levels of success; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24030/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (Resumed): Coastal Protection (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase vegetated coastal habitats such as mangroves, salt marsh and seagrass beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24282/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (Resumed): Coastal Protection (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is always kind. The peat bogs that Bord na Móna devastated are not being restored. Trees that were planted have all been ripped out of the ground and cut up. About half of them have been burnt and the carbon released back into the atmosphere. It is vital, therefore, that we do something else to sequester carbon quickly and in a permanent way. About 170 km...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (Resumed): Coastal Protection (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister. We have to accept that salt marshes are very impressive at sequestering and storing carbon. Some studies have estimated that, per hectare, a salt marsh can sequester carbon at 40 times the speed of a tropical rainforest. 12 o’clock Vegetated coastal ecosystems such as our salt marshes currently store huge quantities of carbon and need to be protected and...

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the motion from Fianna Fáil. It highlights how the work, pay and conditions of our Defence Forces have been deteriorating over the years. We have been warning about this long-standing crisis but it has not improved. Our Defence Forces are among the few State organisations that have a track record of which we can be proud. Sadly, the esteem in which we hold them does not...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: Two years ago, Deputy Jonathan O'Brien called for a comprehensive review of this emergency legislation. He said such a review "should focus on how to modernise the criminal justice system to make it responsive to the needs of Ireland in 2017". No review was ever conducted. We have seen little serious reform of our criminal justice system in the lifetime of this Government. Instead, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Management Plan (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 36. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of the 17 bogs that Bord na Móna stated it would close in late 2018 that have been rewetted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24281/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason An Garda Síochána, in response to requests and reminders by the RIA on 4 April 2019, 17 April 2019 and 3 May 2019, did not release the body of a person (details supplied) for burial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24482/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the coroner authorised for a person (details supplied) to be buried in private with no ceremony, when there were requests and reminders on 4 April 2019, 17 April 2019 and 3 May 2019 by the RIA for the release of the body for a public burial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24483/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 8. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the recent comments by the former head of the elite Ranger Wing in Chad that poor rates of pay and allowances for enlisted personnel, rather than officers, were driving personnel out of the Defence Forces; if he has discussed these issues with the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: 15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether the pay and conditions of members of the Defence Forces are having a negative effect on morale levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24573/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: Recently the former head of the elite Ranger Wing in Chad, Cathal Berry, said that poor rates of pay and allowances for enlisted personnel, rather than officers, were driving personnel out of the Defence Forces. He also said:The sense of absolute betrayal is palpable. It is visceral. I have not seen anything even remotely like it in 23 years’ service. Has the Minister of State...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: I have two questions. Do I get extra time?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: What? I have one minute to ask two questions?