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Other Questions: Trade Data (26 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: He did not get it because nobody agreed. Nobody said they agreed.

Other Questions: Trade Data (26 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: That is ridiculous.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I will be very brief. I wish to commend the Peter McVerry Trust on the wonderful work it is doing. I am glad it is making use of some units that I built in Russell Street.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: God help us.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised, or will consider raising, at European Union or United Nations level concerns regarding Turkey's status as a safe state for the return of refugees, given recent reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International to the contrary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11896/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that the European Union-Turkey refugee deal is not in contravention of European Union or international law, and that it upholds the human rights of the refugees concerned, given reports by a number of human rights watchdogs, such as Human Rights Watch documenting human rights abuses in the deportation process, and...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am sharing my time with Deputy Clare Daly. We will take 15 minutes each. Both Deputy Daly and I have read the reports in full and it would have been nice to have an hour each to address the many issues in them. However, to bring it back home first for a while, in the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality's press statement on the publication of the O'Higgins report, she...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister mentioned the unemployment figure. The national figure is approximately 17% for those under 25, while the national figure for general workers is at the 8% mark. Sadly, in Wexford, the rate is over 20% for the general workforce and over 30% for those under 25, which is absolutely frightening. I do not want to go on a parish pump rant, but I must say this. People were talking...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: The core point is that the maximum rate for those aged between 18 and 24 with no dependant children is currently €100. Those who are 25 are getting €144, down from €188. The poverty line is around the €200 mark per adult per week, and expecting people to survive on half of that is not a runner. As we are discussing youth unemployment, I will add that I met a...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Exactly. They are not going to get welfare payments.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore the social protection payments which have been cut over the past seven years, given the impact of rising inflation during this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11650/16]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said inflation had been low in the past year or two. That is true, but there has been inflation since 2010 and basic social protection payments have been cut by 8% since then. There have also been cuts to secondary welfare supports for people of all ages and family types, along with a tightening of the conditions for accessing jobseeker's benefit. In addition, between 2008 and...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: -----but the reality is very different on the ground.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I too wish the Minister well in his job, and I hope he takes a more rational approach to dealing with issues than what we have seen in the past five years. The argument has been made that the Minister is almost trying to protect young people, and people in general, from welfare dependancy. The Minister said we could all come up with research results that suited us. Most research shows that...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore the jobseeker's allowance for persons under 26 years of age to pre-2014 levels, given calls from a number of groups such as the Free Legal Advice Centres, which has stated that this cut in particular is pushing people into homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11649/16]

Adjournment Debate: Refugee Crisis (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: More than 8,000 people have been moved from the Idomeni camp, and among them are hundreds of unaccompanied children. If the European Union countries, including Ireland, had fulfilled their obligations in the past year, most of those people would not be going into another camp but would be facing a better future. Sadly, the programme of the EU is about detention and deportation, when it...

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Tell that to RTE.

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I thought she was answerable to the Dáil.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I thank Mr. Jordan for attending. What I am going to ask has been influenced by what the other Deputies have said. Everyone agrees we need to build more social housing through local authorities but we must also accept that there will always be people who want to live in the private rental sector. The lack of regulation and leaving the sector to the markets to regulate have been a failure....

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I apologise for being late and perhaps some of the points I will raise have already been addressed. Has the IPOA expressed opposition to the proposal that apartments should be sold with tenants in place, as would happen in most of Europe? If the situation here was different and if it was difficult to rent a residential unit, it would be of benefit to have a tenant in place if a person was...