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An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceapacháin Bhreithiúnacha) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Judicial Appointments) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: This Bill certainly improves the current arrangements whereby the Government, and more particularly the Cabinet, has complete control of all judicial appointments. The suggestion that the judicial appointments council be composed of members selected from a broad spectrum of society is an interesting one and it would certainly improve democratic accountability. Since the current arrangement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the manner in which young persons are educated about sex and issues such as abortion in secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6634/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (25 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to written correspondence of 24 January 2014 if he has received any advice on whether the use of isolation rooms is a breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Ireland is expected to ratify in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9161/14]

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: I find the Government's proposal to appoint a senior counsel to consider whether an independent inquiry is required a bit difficult to take after all that has happened. After 18 months of the penalty points episode we certainly have no doubts that an independent public inquiry is required to establish the truth - an independent and public inquiry into the penalty points episode, into the...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: People are right to be cynical about politics and politicians. This place is a joke. We play games in here, and sometimes these games lead to the unfair distribution of justice or no justice at all. Sometimes they lead to people losing their lives, to murders, to families not getting any justice. What do we see when bad things emerge? We see our police force and our politicians circling...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: Hear no evil, see no evil.

Post Office Network: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: I heard the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, say last night that unless there is a compelling case the Government does not want to see a single post office closed. I came in here twice in the last year and begged that a post office in Duncormick - a small village near where I live - be kept open. It was the last post office in the parish of Rathangan and more than 1,200 people in the parish wrote...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider developing a long-term strategy to deal with coastal erosion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9409/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to develop a co-ordinated approach to address increased flooding problems throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9408/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Status Application Numbers (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 161. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will set out in tabular form the annual figures for ministerial decisions made to revoke refugee status since 2005, alongside the annual figures for successful appeals of those decisions since 2005; if he will set out categories showing his reasons for those decisions since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9747/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Correspondence (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he has taken in view of the publication of the second periodic report of the Holy See on the Rights of the Child; if he will set out the details of any correspondence he has had with the four relevant religious orders regarding financial contributions and the reports urging an internal investigation into the conduct of religious...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 3. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken to address the issues raised in the section 80(5) GSOC report regarding Garda collusion with an international drug trafficker; if the gardaí involved remain serving gardaí; if the terms of reference of Mr. Justice Cooke's paper review will allow for any consideration of possible involvement of those gardaí in any...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: Given that GSOC confirmed to the committee and Kieran FitzGerald confirmed on "Prime Time" that the sweep for covert surveillance arose at a time of heightened risk, which they linked to the investigation of the Kieran Boylan case, the proposed paper review by Mr. Justice Cooke must be permitted to examine any possible connection arising with any garda connected to the Kieran Boylan issue, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has more faith in the system than GSOC has shown. Given the decision of the DPP not to prosecute, I assume the Minister has sought and received briefings from the Garda Commissioner on whether the relevant senior gardaí have been disciplined, demoted or whether they remain serving in the Garda Síochána. I would be obliged if the Minister will update the House in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has not told us whether Mr. Justice Cooke will have the power to examine the Commissioner and retired gardaí. GSOC reached damning conclusions in this section 80(5) report despite assurances in 2012 from Commissioner Martin Callinan that it was his belief members of the Garda Síochána were co-operating with GSOC. Even on the publication by GSOC of this section 85...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: GSOC would be well fit for it if the Minister gave it powers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: That is not what GSOC said.

Ireland's Engagement with Europe: Statements (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: I listened to the Minister of State's opening statement and my attention was caught by the following remark: "The European project is a perpetual vehicle of collective action designed to enable countries to continuously work together to the benefit of all and to successfully overcome difficulties through compromise and negotiation". It is not fair to say that the decisions made in Europe are...

Ireland's Engagement with Europe: Statements (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: It is okay, Ming, we are still friends. Austerity has been shoved down our necks by Europe. The bailout was shoved down our necks and as Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan said, it impacts on just about every citizen on the island, which is unfair. When we signed the Nice and Lisbon treaties, we paved the way for big business to flourish at the expense of the ordinary citizen. It now wants far...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: 31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the decision to relieve the confidential recipient of his duties was connected to the recent release of a transcript of a conversation between the confidential recipient and the whistleblower; the immediate arrangements he has made to provide an official avenue for whistleblowing in advance of any proposed legislative changes; if he will...