Results 741-760 of 7,404 for speaker:Mick Wallace

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies (22 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason behind the decision to abolish the office of the Chief Scientific Adviser; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51812/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: The Gathering (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on recent criticisms of the Gathering initiative; his views on whether it is an appropriate allocation of resources in view of the fact that 87,000 persons emigrated from here last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52682/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: The Gathering (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is well aware of the comments on The Gathering by the former culture ambassador, Mr. Gabriel Byrne. His main comment was that The Gathering has been presented in such a way that it sounds as if we are just trying to make money from the diaspora. Given that so many people have left the country under terrible conditions in recent times, they may find the manner in which The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: The Gathering (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: This is a huge disappointment. This is corruption that the Government has refused to deal with.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: The Gathering (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: The Department has had them since January.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: The Gathering (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: The Minister did not answer my question on The Gathering.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: The Gathering (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: The gardaí in question have taken a risk in this matter by coming forward with this information, which is with the Minister since last January. This is a serious matter and I find it hard to believe that the Government has not been more firm in dealing with it.

Other Questions: Sports Capital Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: Everyone in the House is aware that the number of applications is at a record level due to the current shortage of funds. Organisations across the country have invested significant amounts of money over the past 20 years. I support Deputy Naughten in his appeal to the Government. This is an investment which offers incredible value. Alcohol abuse costs €3 billion and if we can reduce...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Semi-State Sector Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason he tried to breach the €250,000 pay cap for the new Chief Executive Officer of the Dublin Airport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52681/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (27 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of State funding given to the Irish Patients' Association and Patient Focus in each of the years 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012. [52191/12]

Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: For the past three Wednesdays, crowds have gathered outside the Dáil to express their anger. On Saturday, 17 November, they marched through the streets of Dublin in their thousands and they will do so again next Saturday in Galway. It is clear, as it has been for two decades, that the majority of people in this country want action on abortion. It is often difficult for individuals in...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (28 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has received the environmental impact assessment of numbers 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin; the result of this assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52968/12]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Plan (28 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made to date in encouraging philanthropic initiatives for the arts; his plans to protect the arts in Budget 2013 in the event that he does not succeed in raising €10 million from the private sector; if his Department will meet the shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52969/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Services (29 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a new fund to support and develop public service broadcasting on independent commercial radio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53327/12]

Other Questions: Household Charge (4 Dec 2012)

Mick Wallace: The reporting by two gardaí of terminations of fixed charge penalties on a massive scale has been ignored by the Government since last January, and we are being blocked from discussing that in this Chamber. A public inquiry is now needed. Honest gardaí are being undermined. Those gardaí need protection. They went to the Garda confidential recipient for whistleblowers but...

Other Questions: Building Regulations (4 Dec 2012)

Mick Wallace: We know inspections have not been thorough enough. We know architects and engineers sign off on work without being present themselves and without having an assistant or employee inspecting on their behalf. Work is being covered up and one does not know the situation regarding the work carried out most recently. If supervision is not as good as it should be I suggest timber frame has become...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (4 Dec 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list and describe any proposed transfer of functions to local government in his reform document Putting People First which might enact the suggestion in the President's Take Charge of Change Declaration that local government should be empowered in order that national representatives do not engage in parochial...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (4 Dec 2012)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a radical overhaul of local government funding with a view to giving each local authority more autonomy, and in accordance with the State's commitments in the European Charter of Local Self Government, particularly Articles eight and nine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54224/12]

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Mick Wallace: Whenever a budget appears a critical question must be asked. Does the budget seriously address the massive levels of inequality in our society? Does it make a genuine effort to close the gap between the top 10% and the bottom 10%? Sadly, the answer today, as with previous austerity budgets, is "No". A few days ago, I found a page from The Guardian which I had kept from 8 December 2010,...

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (7 Dec 2012)

Mick Wallace: No one yet knows for sure what happened to Savita Halappanavar. We know that she wanted to be pregnant, that she miscarried and that the care she received did not save her life. It is important to push for medical accountability in such cases and to demand full investigations into whether protocols existed and were followed and whether the patient was subjected to discriminatory harassment...