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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: There is much food for thought. I agree with the points made by Dr. Shannon. Children live in a different world. I have a few children and I can barely turn on the computer while they can take it apart and put it back together again. Unless we listen to them we will not understand them. People who legislate very often are disconnected from those for whom they are legislating, and that is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which NAMA considered the tax structures of potential bidders for assets being sold by NAMA; the impact of these to the potential returns to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance the freedom of information procedures that operate within NAMA; the process followed from receiving a request to publication; if the procedures adhere fully to the Freedom of Information Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31471/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 2 May 2017, if he has satisfied himself that NAMA achieved maximum return under section 10 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 with regard to the debt refinancing transaction Project Nantes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31467/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of Ireland's stated support of calls for an independent international investigation into alleged violations of international humanitarian law in Yemen; if Ireland has taken substantive measures, diplomatic or otherwise, to demonstrate concerns in this area; if Ireland has taken actions at EU or UN level to instigate an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Investigations (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has raised issues with either the United States of America or the United Arab Emirates in view of the recent reports by an organisation (details supplied) into torture prison camps being run by the UAE with US support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31652/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017, if he will define the phrase "carbon neutral" in respect of agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31693/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017, if he will define the phrase "sustainable" in respect of agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017 (details supplied), the European forms of food production the family farm is ranked against; the position of the family farm in that ranking in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 27 June 2017, if his Department carried out economic projections on the potential economic benefits of successful offshore exploration in the Atlantic margin weighed against the potential negative economic impacts of the advancement of rapid climate change that would occur as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 27 June 2017, if his Department carried out a separate environmental impact assessment on the burning of fossil fuels that may be found and extracted as a result of the issuing of offshore exploration licenses in the Atlantic margin; if not, the reasoning behind this approach...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale behind the decision to cut all funding for counselling services in the school completion programme; her views on whether this could have serious negative consequences for the children and young persons currently availing of these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31175/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 61. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reconsider the withdrawal of funding for the school completion programme's counselling grant scheme and instead significantly increase the scheme's budget to allow the scheme to be opened up nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31174/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Data (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies that are registered here with the Companies Registration Office in 2017 that are deemed to be an external company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31053/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale to appoint a second auditor to NAMA with regard to the recent announcement by NAMA of the appointment of a company (details supplied) as statutory auditor; the advice sought regarding this decision, by both NAMA and his Department; if legal advice was sought from the Attorney General; if the decision is in breach of section 57(1) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of June 2017, if a projection has been carried out by his Department in relation to emissions reduction from the agricultural sector in 2020, 2030 and 2050; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31303/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 31 May 2017, the eight areas that the Government has excluded from the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA; the process by which decisions to exclude particular policy areas are made; the number of submissions for exceptions that were made to her Department; the Departments...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: 18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the potential impact of CETA in view of the fact that the State's negative list of eight policy areas is considerably shorter than other member states, for example, Germany, which has 25 pages of exemptions; her further views on the fact that Ireland's negative list does not include services such as water, education or...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the Minister to her new job. I hope she enjoys it more than the previous one.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: The European Commission explanatory document on negative lists states that all sectors or sub-sectors that are not listed on the negative list are, by default, open to foreign service suppliers under the same conditions as domestic service suppliers. The Minister's predecessor stated that substantive engagement took place, sector by sector, to identify Ireland's interests over the course of...