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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to introduce in Dáil Éireann the urgently-needed legislation to deal with changes in the valuation system for commercial rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2692/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding that he will be making available for both emergency works, as a result of recent damage, and a more sustainable, long-term solution to tackle the serious problem of coastal erosion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2693/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: Likewise, I realise this was not on Mr. Keegan's watch. However, does he have an opinion on the reason no serious internal investigation took place after the McKechnie judgment had been so damning of individuals in the council or the reason no one has been held accountable? In the interests of transparency and accountability, does Mr. Keegan have an appetite for carrying out such an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: When I asked Mr. Keegan if he had an appetite for an investigation into how matters were mismanaged, he said it was water under the bridge. Does accepting such events as water under the bridge help our efforts to achieve accountability and transparency?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I wish to seek permission to submit an amendment on Report Stage. I am of the view that increased use of the system of community service should be encouraged. The Bill favours the use of recovery and attachment orders and the use of community service appears to be the final alternative to imprisonment. I am giving notice, therefore, that I will be tabling an amendment to reverse the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: Community service should not be seen simply as a form of punishment but as something positive. It would not do any of us any harm to do community service. I will bring forward an amendment on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to bring forward amendments to this section on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to bring forward amendments to this section on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to bring forward amendments to this section on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to bring forward amendments to this section on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to bring forward amendments to this section on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to bring forward amendments to this section on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I wish to delete section 19(1)(c)(i).

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: Okay.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: Section 19(1)(c)(i)

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to bring forward amendments to this section on Report Stage.

Other Questions: Trade Missions (23 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the perceived benefits of the trade mission to Saudi Arabia are worth the negative consequences of dealing with a regime with such a poor human rights record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2958/14]

Other Questions: Trade Missions (23 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: Saudi Arabia has probably one of the worst human rights records in the world. On the recent trade mission the Taoiseach congratulated Saudi Arabia on its election to the UN Human Rights Council, but did not challenge it on its human rights record. We are not talking about something that happened 30 years ago, but something that is happening today. Is it right to leave all principle outside...

Other Questions: Trade Missions (23 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: A recent Human Rights Watch report stated:Saudi Arabia stepped up arrests, trials, and convictions of peaceful dissidents, and forcibly dispersed peaceful demonstrations by citizens in 2013. Authorities continued to violate the rights of 9 million Saudi women and girls and 9 million foreign workers. As in past years, authorities subjected thousands of people to unfair trials and arbitrary...

Other Questions: Trade Missions (23 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Minister says that opening up trade links with these people will change how they do things. How has Saudi Arabia changed how it does things in the past 20 years? As far as I can see nothing is changing. As long as it can do business with everybody it will be under no pressure to change anything. We approved of the EU sanctions on Iran because we wanted to force it to the negotiating...