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Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 65. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recently published scorecard on the national carers' strategy which classified respite care as regressive meaning that the situation has worsened since the national carers' strategy was launched, in view of the commitments outlined in the programme for partnership Government to the principle of equality of opportunity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Review (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports available for those that suffer with haemochromatosis and require regular venesection; his plans to introduce financial supports to help with the significant financial burden regular treatment creates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41043/17]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: Some 30% of the population will not be able to buy the private units that the Government's favoured developers will build.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the Sinn Féin motion. I mean nothing personal towards the Minister but I will be highly critical of the Government's handling of the housing crisis for the past six years. I was a little thrown when I heard Deputy Jan O'Sullivan tell the House that we should bring back affordable housing given that the Labour Party got rid of it. I was even more upset when she started to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Arts Council Funding (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister. As she is well aware, the increases of late have come from a low base. For seven years, the arts suffered severely. My understanding is that public funding for the arts and culture represents just 0.11% of GDP, which places Ireland at the bottom of the European league table. The average European level of funding is more than four times what we provide. While I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Arts Council Funding (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: The pilot social welfare initiative has been a good idea, but it is confined to writers and visual artists, which means that it excludes many people. In a place like Dublin, a large number of artists occupy studios that are now closing because of high rents. While the economy is recovering, it is becoming more difficult for artists to survive. This specific issue should be examined....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Arts Council Funding (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase Arts Council core funding by at least 20% in budget 2018, excluding oneoff commemorative events or Creative Ireland initiatives, in line with the calls from an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40531/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Arts Council Funding (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: The national campaign for the arts has called on the Government to begin implementing a commitment to match average GDP spending on the arts and culture in the European Union. Will the Minister commit to increasing Arts Council funding by at least 20% in budget 2018, excluding one-off commemorative events or Creative Ireland initiatives, in line with the request by the national campaign?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank Ms Feehily.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I want to pick up on a few points Ms Feehily made. Ms Feehily said that we, as policy makers, gave her an authority that did not have enough powers. We would like to clarify that we did not give it to her. We introduced a different one with many more powers and Ms Feehily would be in a much stronger position if they had taken on our proposal. For the record, the Fine Gael-Labour...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: According to section 11(1), the threshold for the removal of a Garda Commissioner is if the individual "has failed to perform the functions of the office with due diligence and effectiveness or, in the case of the Garda Commissioner, has failed to have regard to any of the matters specified in section 26(2)," including not having regard to priorities, performance targets, the policing plan,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: My final point is on Ms O'Toole's letter. Given that the Garda Inspectorate report of 2015 has outlined in wonderful detail exactly how we should run a police force, how can we justify not putting a new Commissioner in place for the best part of a year? Can Ms Feehily understand the rationale?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank Ms Feehily.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank Ms Feehily for coming into the meeting. I wanted to touch on some of the points Deputy O'Callaghan made but I note from the Policy Authority's recent report to the Minister that only nine of the 50 recommendations in the Garda Inspectorate's 2015 report, Changing Policing in Ireland, marked as complete and implemented by An Garda Síochána under former Commissioner...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Creative Ireland Programme (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role her Department played in the design of the artist's social welfare pilot scheme; if artists were involved in the design of the scheme; if concerns have been raised with her regarding the provision whereby artists must prove that they are genuinely seeking other work, taking part in courses or classes such as CV...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 80. To ask the Taoiseach the timeframe for the publication of the interim report into the Commission of Investigation on the National Asset Management Agency, under section 38(1) of the Commission of Investigation Act 2004. [40852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the implementation of the national neuro-rehabilitation strategy; if his attention has been drawn to an organisation's (details supplied) campaign and its call for specific investment of €7 million in 2018 to address the underfunding of neuro-rehabilitation services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40842/17]

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Remit (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I did not ask the Minister to comment on individual situations but to review the legislation.

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Remit (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 40. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the 40-plus agencies that are either fully or partially exempt from freedom of information requests; his further views on whether these exemptions are in the public interest with regard to accountability and transparency; if he will consider conducting a review of the agencies that benefit from such exemptions; and if he...

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Remit (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am looking forward to the Minister filling me with hope. It will not even cost him money to do it. The 2014 Freedom of Information Act was heralded as ground-breaking and progressive legislation by the former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. At the time, we pointed out many problems with it, but they were obviously ignored. It is three years since the Act was put in place...