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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (11 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps both Tusla and her Department have taken to ensure that the accommodation of unaccompanied child refugees from the Calais camp is taking place without delay; if she has satisfied herself with the results to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22339/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (11 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the arrival of unaccompanied child refugees from the former Calais camp; the number of child refugees that are now fully integrated and living here since the programme began; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22338/17]

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Regardless of what is written on these civilian aircraft, the Minister's Department is responsible for them. Does he not believe that it is long past time that we stopped allowing Shannon to be used as a US military base for wreaking havoc in areas of the Middle East and beyond? We understand that this issue is not all under the Minister's remit, given that the Departments of Justice and...

Other Questions: Road Projects Expenditure (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister did not indicate whether he is in favour of the project. I ask him to clarify his position. Successive Governments have incentivised the use of cars by building motorways and refusing to invest in public transport. While the works proposed on the M11-N11 corridor would ease one bottleneck by creating an 8 km stretch of three-lane roadway, it would merely help drivers to...

Other Questions: Road Projects Expenditure (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I assure the Minister that it is currently not possible to increase the number of lanes on an 8 km stretch of motorway from two to three for less than €10 million per kilometre, which gives a total cost of €80 million as opposed to €30 million. The Minister only uses the N11 from Enniskerry. If he were to drive from Rosslare to Dublin, he would find that the absence of...

Other Questions: Road Projects Expenditure (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The reason for the traffic jam-----

Other Questions: Road Projects Expenditure (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister indicated I could speak again. The petrol station in Kilmacanogue is a key reason for the bottleneck to which the Minister referred.

Other Questions: Road Projects Expenditure (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of the proposed upgrade to the M11 as outlined in Transport Infrastructure Ireland's recently published M11-N11 corridor study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21960/17]

Other Questions: Road Projects Expenditure (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I was a little disheartened to read the recent AECOM report which came out last month, carried out for Transport Infrastructure Ireland, on the M11-N11 corridor. Among other things, the study advocates for enhanced capacity on the M11 in the form of an 8 km third lane from junctions 4 to 8. The thinking is that the third lane will ease bottleneck congestion at rush hour periods. While I...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Committee (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The manner in which the Government is dealing with this is wrong and it will continue to treat us as it pleases unless we are prepared to take a stand. Deputy O'Callaghan's proposal is rational and it is not crazy or off the wall. We will force the Government to come to the mark if we initiate his proposal. If we do not, the Government will continue to do as it pleases with us.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Issues (10 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the possibility of having Rosslare harbour and the Rosslare to Connolly railway line incorporated into the TENtec core Atlantic corridor as a countermeasure to the effects of Brexit and the disconnection of the North Sea Mediterranean corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21961/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for the National Rehabilitation Hospital's spinal cord system of care programme in each of the years 2013 to 2016; and the average waiting time to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21947/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (9 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of payments to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22019/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Expenditure (9 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total spend on transport infrastructure by sector (details supplied) for each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21985/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (9 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if business case studies have been undertaken into the possible provision of a high speed rail network; if he will direct the National Transport Authority to conduct a pilot study into high speed rail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21986/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (9 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 647. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the role of light and heavy rail in climate change mitigation; the plans in place to use rail to mitigate climate change outside of the Dublin and Kildare area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21867/17]

Topical Issue Debate: UN Committees (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Saudi Arabia has been elected to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women by the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The UN describes this commission as the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. The executive director of Geneva-based UN Watch has stated that electing Saudi Arabia to...

Topical Issue Debate: UN Committees (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Saudi Arabia is engaged in genocide in Yemen and has caused a humanitarian disaster but we still continue to trade with the country, so the Minister might forgive us for suspecting that Ireland might have voted for its accession to the commission on this occasion. Only two weeks before the Irish trade delegation landed in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Ambassador to the US, Prince Abdullah bin...

Other Questions: Pesticide Use (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The logic is Monsanto's. The Minister is moving the goalposts and defining the rules drawn up by the EU. Putting aside protecting even 5% of our land, is it a fact that according to the 2016 assessment of the EPA, agriculture was responsible for 53% of river pollution. That is mostly due to chemicals and fertilisers. We can ignore this and ignore what is coming down the tracks. We can...

Other Questions: Pesticide Use (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: And break the environmental rules doing it.