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Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: I wonder if these investors would consider buying some of our coastline and investing in the prevention of coastal erosion instead of cherry-picking like vultures.

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: That is why the Deputy is offering no defence.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 35. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on reports that at least 200 social work posts are currently vacant even though there have been significant increases in the number of reports of children at risk of abuse or neglect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6635/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: The word "definitive" is defined as "conclusive, explicit, complete".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: I will keep going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: My phone is switched off completely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: The definition of the word "definitive" is "conclusive, explicit, complete" and the word suggests that almost 100% certainty is required. The Minister is setting an impossible standard of proof as there is rarely definitive proof of anything. This is all the more true in issues of surveillance and communication. Criminal standard is beyond all reasonable doubt, which equates to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: With regard to the second anomaly, Mr. Kieran FitzGerald stated last night that the chances that this anomaly with a conference call was benign or the result of a coincidence were estimated as close to zero. Was this not enough to reach the standard of definitive proof that an attempt at covert surveillance was made? The real question is who initiated it. In light of the Minister's very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: The witness did not confirm if the office received or sought unequivocal assurances from the Minister or the Garda Síochána on whether any authorised and lawful covert surveillance had taken place on GSOC. He has indicated that he trusts things were fine. Was the question asked of whether there was authorised surveillance initiated by either the Minister or the Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: I am of the opinion that if GSOC is unable to ask those questions, we certainly have a problem. GSOC has indicated that databases were not compromised but this does not exclude the possibility of data being accessed either through e-mails or bugging equipment. Will Mr. O'Brien confirm if this possibility was addressed in the UK security agency report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: The statement of the Minister, Deputy Shatter, was incredibly careful and qualified. He confirmed only that no definitive evidence of unauthorised technical or electronic surveillance of the office was found. He did not mention what kind of evidence was found or if there was authorised or lawful surveillance in place. He did not go on record in the House to confirm this or allude to it at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: I did not make the assertion. I stated that many Irish people believe that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: Should there be an independent inquiry along the lines of what we had for the penalty points issue? If there is an independent inquiry we deal with suspicions and the fuzzy area of doubt. Do the witnesses believe an independent inquiry would strengthen GSOC, the police force and the Minister while bringing clarification to the issue? Would it put all these suspicions to bed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: That is all right.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (13 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the cut to the starting salary level for newly graduated nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6954/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (13 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 27. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the statistics on public maternity units, recently released under freedom of information, which show a wide variation in caesarean section rates, ranging from 19.1% in Sligo General Hospital to 38% in St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6953/14]

Other Questions: Airport Security (18 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: No action has been taken under Article 16 provisions of the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation on the searching of planes suspected of involvement in renditions, troops or arms transportation. While the Chicago Convention applies to civil rather than military aircraft, the US has on several occasions commissioned private companies for the transport of troops and arms and...

Other Questions: Airport Security (18 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: What gave the Minister that impression?

Other Questions: Airport Security (18 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: Will we allow a million people to die in Iraq instead?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Regulations (18 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to street clamping policy, the safeguards he has put in place to ensure that clamping is used primarily to modify driver behaviour, rather than as a revenue-raising measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7672/14]