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Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach has already agreed.

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am not easily shocked. I have been here only six years but I have never heard anything like what I heard from the Minister. I was shocked by it. I was also shocked by his personal attack on the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts. I thank the Chairman and all the members of the PAC for the work they did. It is a powerful report and given the remit they had they did incredibly...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This is a situation where we are giving legitimacy to an illegal occupation. The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Netanyahu, said recently that the Golan Heights will remain in the hands of Israel forever. The problems are increasing in the region. There is increased conflict and increasing illegal activities by the Israelis in the Golan Heights. Recently, in the town of Majdal Shams, the...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This month alone, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia published a report which concluded that Israel is guilty of the international crime of apartheid against the Palestinians. Many of the report's findings could apply equally to Israel's policy in the Golan and be consistent with apartheid. At present, 23,000 Israeli settlers control 95% of the land of the...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether the current UNDOF mission, in the context of the deployment of Irish troops to the Golan Heights, has now moved away from the original task of the 1974 mandate. [15482/17]

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has the question. He could do with the extra half a minute.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the problems in the present transfer system between the Naval Service and the Army and the impact that this is having on morale and on the retention of Defence Forces personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15694/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This question relates to a young lad from Kilkenny who happens to play for Wexford Youths. I was contacted by a member of his family. Deputy Aylward and I have mentioned this to the Minister of State a few times outside the Chamber. I realise there is a shortage of personnel in the navy and that it is as eager as hell to hold on to them, but if it really wants to keep them, it will have to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This lad has applied three times and is getting frustrated. He is not in a great place. He was reared by his grandparents. His grandfather who served for 23 years as a company quartermaster sergeant died two years ago and, sadly, the service pension died with him. The lad has been looking after his grandmother since then. It is not financially viable for him to go from Kilkenny to Cork...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: If there is no time limit there should be one. It is ridiculous not to have a measure on these matters. The individual in question wants to go to Kilkenny and the battalion commander in Kilkenny says there is a place there for him. This guy is a qualified communications operator. Money has been invested in him by the State and he is an asset to the Defence Forces. He will have no choice...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not know whether the Minister is innocently supporting her in this case; I do not know how much he knows. The Minister for Justice and Equality knows plenty about what I have just said. Does the Minister think it is appropriate for former Commissioner Callinan to have been in Phoenix Park headquarters on several days last week? Does he think it is appropriate that the former...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: While the Government says it still has support for the Garda Commissioner, mayhem prevails in An Garda Síochána. The Commissioner became caretaker Commissioner in March 2014. The Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, became Minister for Justice and Equality on 8 May 2014. It just so happened that, on that very same day, Garda Nick Keogh made allegations and started off an...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Foreign Naval Vessels (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 48. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the basis on which permission was granted to a US warship (details supplied) to dock in Cobh in March 2017; and if Defence Forces personnel were involved in supplying security to the warship. [15483/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 137. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the HSE to release immediately a report into complaints made by persons (details supplied); if he will direct the HSE to present the report to the persons concerned in its original unedited format as delivered to the HSE on 7 February 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15563/17]

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste is talking about introducing the most significant reforms in policing since the foundation of the State. This is a joke. The Tánaiste talks about the Police Authority being a robust body. It is toothless. We told the Tánaiste this when she brought the legislation forward. She introduced changes in respect of GSOC that have left it still unfit for purpose and...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach is not wrong there.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: One more.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 41. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the fact that, at any one time, approximately 50% of children in the youth justice system are on remand; her further views on the concerns of youth justice advocacy groups (details supplied) that the practice of detention on remand for children is being over-used here as a means to access mental health services which should...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 60. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason there are still seven minors currently serving sentences in Wheatfield Prison in view of the Government's commitment to ending the practice of detaining children in adult prisons; when these children will be transferred to the Oberstown campus; her plans to expand her Department's role in youth justice issues by taking...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 533. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the detail of the five most destructive factors limiting the recovery of salmon stocks in the River Slaney; his plans to address these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15288/17]