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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Okay. I thank the Minister of State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: On the Chairman or me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: On the Chairman or me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Now that the Minister of State is taking questions on promised legislation-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: God knows what job the Minister of State will have in a couple of weeks' time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Is the Bill on craft beer in our court at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Is it for the committee to move on that next rather than the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I understand that and I am not looking to jump the queue. Is it likely the money message will be a problem on the Bill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Is there a feeling in Government that the money message will be facilitated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations: Motions (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Other Bills which passed that Stage were stopped by the money message issue.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of research carried out by his Department into the savings expected to be made as a result of the current welfare fraud campaign; if, in view of the fact that only 21% of identified overpayments made by his Department in 2015 were actually fraudulent as opposed to claims and payments made in error and that in the past four years...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of the ongoing campaign to tackle welfare fraud; if the 12 staff members he referred to in his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 16 May 2017 work solely on the social welfare fraud campaign; if he has satisfied himself that the resources dedicated to this campaign represent an effective use of public funding; and if he will make...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Reform (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has considered introducing a basic income along the lines of pilot schemes in the Netherlands, Italy and Finland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26195/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the outsourcing of particular aspects of unemployment services here to private companies, for example, through the JobPath scheme; if he has had discussions with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation regarding international trade deals such as CETA and the potential impact they may have on the delivery of social protection...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Industrial Relations (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address his recent comments regarding restricting the right to strike in essential services; his views on whether such a restriction would be a breach of Ireland's international human rights obligations, for example, under the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26198/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 248. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Bree, County Wexford is part of the Government's national broadband plan; when it will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26153/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 257. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of discussions she has had with the Minister for Social Protection regarding the potential impact of international trade agreements such as CETA on the social protection system here, particularly in view of the fact that the only social protection-related issues included on the negative list in the CETA text refers to...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (31 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 258. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to raise the minimum wage to meet the living wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26196/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Accountability and transparency are essential ingredients of a well functioning democracy. National security issues, however, allow governments that are basically democratic to opt out of these responsibilities and justify actions which often constitute gross infringements of human rights under the guise of protecting citizens. Ireland's national security committee, NSC, by its nature,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the national security committee took place; the current members of the committee; the number of times the committee meets each year; and the role of the committee. [23329/17]