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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the progress made on the development of a technical university for the south-east region since the TUSE project was initiated in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24671/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to tackle the chronic shortage of post primary ASD special classes nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24672/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the development of the satellite dialysis unit in County Wexford; and when the unit will be completed and operational. [24868/17]

Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “9th May, 2017”: ", with the inclusion of the following amendments to the draft Order, which Dáil Éireann calls on the Government to make: (a) the deletion of Article 4(2); (b) after Article 4(4) the insertion of the following Schedule to the Order: ‘SCHEDULE Commission of Investigation (National Asset...

Other Questions: Surveillance Operations (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Terrorist acts are no excuse for us not to legislate properly or not to follow international best practice. The Minister pointed out that under current legislation, only the Minister, after an application has been made to him or her, may grant authorisation to intercept communications. This is not a safeguard. Surveillance based on political authorisation rather than a judicial warrant is...

Other Questions: Surveillance Operations (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: International human rights law requires that interception of communications be authorised by a judge or an equivalent independent body. The legislation in Ireland does not have these strong safeguards. Having a judge browse over a few of them at the end of the year is not serious oversight.

Other Questions: Surveillance Operations (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: To compare this with the UK, oversight of phone tapping there is carried out on a full-time basis by an interception of communications commissioner with 13 support staff. The UK commissioner publishes detailed, twice yearly reports, statistics on the number of interception warrants issued and errors made and the safeguards in place. There is no comparison with what we are doing. I am...

Other Questions: Surveillance Operations (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that the current system governing the surveillance of private citizens meets best international standards of accountability following the recent revelations of Garda surveillance on a private citizen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24381/17]

Other Questions: Surveillance Operations (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We discussed this topic last week and I am happy to discuss it again, as the Minister raised more questions than she answered. It relates to governance of surveillance systems, in which respect the Minister was most vague. She stated that current legislation contains "strong safeguards to ensure the system of interceptions is operated properly" and that there are "multilayered checks and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda College (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the recent public disagreements between senior civilian staff in An Garda Síochána and the Garda Commissioner; the effect this may be having on morale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24380/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Surveillance Operations (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the designated judge under the 1993 and 2011 Acts and the interception of postal packages and retention of data, the detail of the most recent visit by the designated judge to the relevant authorities, including An Garda Síochána; the time they spent at each location; the number of files the designated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Inspectorate Reports (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason no implementation update reports have been published by the current Garda Commissioner with regard to the recommendations of the past three Garda Inspectorate; her views on the lack of commitment to the implementing of Garda Inspectorate recommendations by the current Garda Commissioner; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (23 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will make a decision on whether a new secondary school facility is required for a school (details supplied); the reason the school has been waiting 15 months for such a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24309/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (18 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 15. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 3 May 2017, if Project Shift was discussed at NAMA Northern Ireland advisory committee meetings; if a person (details supplied) advised the debtor in question involved with Project Shift; if Project Shift was externally valued; when it was decided by NAMA to change it from an asset sale to a loan sale; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (18 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 3 May 2015, the number of the 117 prospective investors approached by the loan sale adviser that had originally approached the debtor expressing an interest in the portfolio; if any of these investors were one of the 12 that submitted first round offers or one of the eight invited into the second round of bidding...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (18 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance further to a statement (details supplied) by NAMA's head of residential delivery to the Committee of Public Accounts on 25 October 2016, the NAMA loan sales that were initiated by reverse inquiry; the names of the loan sales and the successful bidders, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23645/17]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “4. The Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following for section 31A:“31A. (1)Where the Planning Regulator is of the opinion that—(a) a regional assembly, or assemblies, as the case may be, in making the regional spatial and economic strategy has ignored, or has not taken...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State might say we only make recommendations when we come into this House but we put forward ideas not just for the fun of it or to get our names in the newspapers. We probably would not get them in anyway but I would not be worried about that. We brought in a policing Bill in 2013 and 2014 and we put a lot of work into it and made recommendations.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We think we put forward good ideas. Two inadequate Bills were brought in here since then and that is part of the fact we still have problems around policing. We argued in the House about the vacant site levy. The vacant site levy the Government is bringing in down the road is a puff of smoke. It is no good. Landbanking is such a huge problem in the construction industry.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I was never in government and I am sure it is very difficult. I do not for a second pretend that it would be grand and easy. I know it is more difficult than being in opposition but I have been inside the construction system. I was a builder and a developer. I have sat down with planners and I know how the whole system works. I have sat down with the banks. We had assets of €80...