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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: House Prices (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that research has shown that increasing the supply of private housing does not always bring the price of housing under control, if he will consider introducing measures that would prevent further boom and bust in house prices here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17096/17]

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to expand the Wexford branch of the Institute of Technology Carlow or to establish a new institute of technology in County Wexford, in order to deliver greater educational and training opportunities to students in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16541/17]

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: Wexford has one of the highest rates of people with no primary education, at 18.5%, and there is a secondary school accommodation crisis even though we are building two schools at the moment. Some 21% of the population of Wexford have completed third level education, the joint second lowest rate in the country, lower than the average for the south east of 23% and far lower than the State...

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: There is confusion as between the south east and Wexford because they are two different areas. The south east is probably one of the more deprived regions in the country but Wexford is the most deprived county in the south east. According to the Department's projection, there will be an increase of some 57,000 students seeking full-time education soon, which does not take into account...

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am aware of the thinking of the day. The national strategy for higher education report of 2011 stated that any such move would reduce the diversity in the overall system and have a negative impact on its ability to respond to the country's innovation needs and development opportunities. I wonder if this thinking is driven by university league tables. The thinking the Minister is offering...

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: All the work is in Dublin. There is no work in rural areas.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on County Wexford's low third level educational attainment rates, which according to the Wexford Local Economic and Community Plan 2016-2021, are the third lowest in the country; the actions he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the newly appointed consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma in St. Vincent's University Hospital and the start date for taking up the position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17038/17]

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: What kind of a society will we have when the Government of the day allows NAMA to sell housing to vulture funds for approximately half of their cost to build and there are more than 7,500 people homeless? Is there any chance that NAMA would play a stronger role? In any development that it is involved in, it is supposed to be delivering 10% social housing. Given that this is not enough,...

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: Section 2(b)(viii) of the NAMA Act provides that NAMA should "contribute to the social and economic development of the State". At the housing committee, Frank Daly of NAMA stated that "the biggest social dividend we can deliver indirectly is to pay this back as quickly as we can". He was speaking of the debt, much as the Minister was now. If NAMA returned what it called a profit of...

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: With the NAMA price, a huge profit is built in.

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not think many people in the country would agree with the Minister. Speaking of a social dividend, when Dublin GAA failed to get the Spawell complex from NAMA, the CEO, John Costello, stated, "When the legislation went through the Dáil at committee stage the community development provision was added but I can't find any example of this being taken into account." We understand the...

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

Mick Wallace: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the NAMA policy of deleting e-mails of former staff who are not deemed business-critical will impact on the ability of any future commission of investigation into NAMA to fully examine all evidence available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16450/17]

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

Mick Wallace: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the NAMA policy of deleting e-mails of former staff who are not deemed business-critical is in line with the governance standards of State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16449/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Training Support Grant (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if one-day fork truck operator renewal or refresher courses are available in County Wexford to experienced fork truck drivers that are currently unemployed or in receipt of social welfare payments via his Department; if one day fork truck operator renewal or refresher courses were previously available via his Department; if so, the reason the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Training Support Grant (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to his Department per person undertaking available fork truck operator training courses for the unemployed or those in receipt of social welfare payments in County Wexford from 2013 to 2016. [16286/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I would like to put my first question to Assistant Commissioner Michael Finn. He was chief superintendent in charge of a Cork division for a few years. What was the overestimation of breath testing in his division?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: Did Mr. Finn never suspect that the figure might not be accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: Given the figures were so inflated, would it be true that it goes without saying that a lot of members knew they were inflating the figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am told by many members that the real big ambition in the Garda is always promotion because things gets better as one goes up. Might the fear that telling the truth about the figures could possibly damage one's promotion prospects have been an issue?