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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigration and Refugee Crisis: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am not saying that security checks should not take place. The people we met in Calais and Dunkirk ran away from militant organisations so I have no worries about them coming here. Most of the people who travelled to Calais did so with the hope of getting to the UK. Many of those we met did not have connections in England. They simply liked the idea of settling in an English-speaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigration and Refugee Crisis: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Wexford Youths underage structure will certainly be applying for money from that fund.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (14 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 58. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has satisfied herself with the care of children in the direct provision system and with the work of Tusla in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40016/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (14 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 59. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her department plans any specific measures to give particular attention to vulnerable children in the Christmas period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40015/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Military Aircraft (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department carries out periodic reviews of defence policy and decisions to ensure they uphold Ireland's stated policy of neutrality; if he has had any discussions with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by the US military as a result...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Military Aircraft (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: Does the Minister of State's Department carry out any periodic reviews of defence policy and decisions to ensure that Ireland's stated policy of neutrality is being upheld? Has the Minister of State spoken with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade or the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of the fact that US military hardware is still passing through Ireland on its way...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Military Aircraft (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: In November 2014, two planes passed through Shannon Airport coming from Delaware. They were carrying class 1 liquid fuel explosives and rockets and class 1 explosives and rockets with bursting charges. I have heard Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael condemn the Russian use of cluster bombs in Aleppo. I condemn their use as well. Why in God's name are we allowing cluster bombs to go through...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Military Aircraft (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: We were given the information through an FOI request. We are not making it up. When we were being tried down in Shannon, three people testified under oath that they had seen weapons on board military planes. It is not rocket science. If we were neutral, we would not only condemn the Russians for using cluster bombs or engaging in war crimes, we would criticise everyone who engages in war...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: There is more to a development plan than whether land is zoned.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: Does the Department not see fit to ensure that An Bord Pleanála is always bound to adhere to a development plan? What is the argument against that? It is dangerous enough to cut out the local authorities' planning sections and going straight to An Bord Pleanála, but there is no rationale for not subjecting An Bord Pleanála to the development plan, lock, stock and barrel. Can...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: It was linked to the first one. I asked if there is a rational argument for An Bord Pleanála not being subject to the development plan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: In the old process I could understand the logic of An Bord Pleanála, as an overseer, not necessarily being subject to the development plan because it is trying to see if things are done as they should be done. However, now that the local authority planning section is being bypassed and things are going straight to An Bord Pleanála, it becomes a serious issue if it is not subject to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: Obviously, I do not agree with the local authority planning section being bypassed anyway. I am bemused that the Minister of State thinks this is holding up developers because I do not believe it is as big an issue as he makes out, given that developers have loads of permissions already granted and are not building on them. The Minister of State is saying that An Bord Pleanála may...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Council Meetings (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he attended the European Council joint session of Defence and Foreign Affairs on 14 November 2016, at which the implementation of the EU global strategy in the area of security and defence was discussed; his views on the Council conclusions adopted at this meeting regarding the deepening of defence co-operation between EU states,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children under 10 years of age who have been living under direct provision in 2016. [39631/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 683. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to his decision to continue the use of Lariam for Defence Forces personnel serving in sub-Saharan Africa, if he will publish the medical advice that informed his decision on the matter; his views on continued use of Lariam, considering that it has been widely discredited in view of its negative psychological effects, which have been...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 684. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether the continued presence of the Defence Forces in the Golan Heights as part of the UNDOF mission, could make Ireland complicit in a breach of international law by effectively facilitating the illegal occupation by Israel of Syrian land; his further views on whether the expertise and skills of the Defence Forces could be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Military Exports (8 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: In 2014 Ireland issued 50 licences for exports of dual-use items to Saudi Arabia. In the same year €2.3 million worth of straight-up weapons were exported to the same place. Saudi Arabia started to bombard Yemen in 2015 and has been accused by the United Nations of committing war crimes there. How many weapons and weapon components were send from Ireland to Saudi Arabia that were...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Military Exports (8 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: Items are included in the EU military exports and dual-use items lists because they are dangerous objects which can be put to deadly use. It has often been argued that some of them are innocuous, but if that was the case, the Minister should be lobbying the European Union to take them off the lists. While she might claim that the European Union is happy for us to export dual-use items,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Military Exports (8 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: While I do not know what the appropriate forum is, if there is a link between countries to which we are prepared to export and human rights concerns, will the Minister, please, ask the Cabinet whether it is right for Ireland to continue to export dual-use items to Saudi Arabia? If, as the Minister said, there is a link with human rights concerns, we cannot possibly export such items to Saudi...