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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: There is a biennial conference in Templemore, a think-in, every two years. Did the deputy commissioner give presentations on road traffic statistics at any of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Will the deputy commissioner help the committee by identifying who did? Is it possible for us to be furnished with copies of the presentations? They would be useful to this committee. Is my request a runner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: On a number of occasions, the deputy commissioner issued press releases around holiday time and at bank holidays. These gave the impression that the Garda was taking praise for the high numbers. Have any of these press statements been withdrawn or is Mr. Twomey happy for them to sit on the record still?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: As head of the traffic bureau-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: As head of the traffic bureau, how many times did Mr. Twomey meet representatives of the Road Safety Authority, RSA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: The RSA was able to go to the then Minister, now Taoiseach, with information on this. Even though Mr. Twomey was head of the national traffic bureau, he did not seem to know what was going on. However, the RSA did and was able to go to the then Minister with information. Given the responsibilities Mr. Twomey had, how in God's name did he not know what was going on all that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: The common trend in all Mr. Twomey's replies to me is that senior management is not taking responsibility for what happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: The deputy commissioner has not identified where the problems are. He and his colleagues are kicking the can down the road in saying they are looking at various things. Surely senior management has to carry the can. If I build an office block and the first floor falls in, the courts will not going looking for the fellow who poured the concrete or shuttered it. They will go looking for me....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Incentives (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has read the research carried out by an organisation (details supplied) calling for an incentive scheme for solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity; if his Department will include solar PV in any new renewable electricity support scheme to replace the existing REFIT scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will strengthen the national mitigation plan by including concrete actions and targets in line with Ireland's international emissions obligations and also end Ireland's reliance on purchasing emissions units further to criticisms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the drug Kuvan, also known as sapropterin, for the treatment of those effected by phenylketonuria here; and when persons may avail of this treatment. [42040/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contracts awarded to a company (details supplied) by his Department and State agencies under his remit; the fees charged for each contract; the State agency involved in each contract; the nature of each contract in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I welcome Deputy O'Sullivan's Bill. The Deputy is not asking too much. What it amounts to is Deputy O'Sullivan thinks it is wrong that we tolerate cruelty to animals. The truth is that the vast majority of Irish people do not agree with any kind of cruelty to animals but we are probably not doing enough to address it where it does happen. The Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the pieces of legislation that enforce the protection of soils, in terms of the introduction of dangerous substances on or in the soil, erosion, organic matter decline, compaction, salinisation and landslides; the programmes of measures for risk areas or national remediation strategies that ensure that contaminated sites receive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing mandatory drug testing for all competing greyhounds (details supplied); if he will introduce heavier penalties for those found doping, particularly in view of the fact that in 2017, six greyhounds were found to have cocaine in their system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41289/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 515. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications made to his Department for exemptions for the transportation of munitions or weapons of war through Shannon Airport to date in 2017 under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order, SI 224 of 1973; the number of these applications which were granted and denied,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of US troops that have passed through Shannon Airport to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41325/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider disregarding an increase for qualified child payments in calculating local authority and housing association differential rents as permitted under section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009; the estimated full year cost of such a change; if he will examine the methods used by local...

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister of State for his contribution. I am very critical of how Ireland has dealt with refugees who are not in this country as well as those who have come to this country. I mean nothing personal as the Minister of State has shown a strong interest in this matter. However, the role of this Government and its predecessor leaves much to be desired. Ireland reached an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Guidelines (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 25. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of the PHQ-9 and GAD7 checklists for assessing mental health in persons are approved for use by the HSE and general practitioners here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40773/17]