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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: My question relates to the same issue. Mr. O'Leary said that Europe puts up barriers monthly to prevent off-balance-sheet borrowing, yet we see that Spain, France, Italy, Lithuania and Austria will all break that rule this year and it does not appear that they will suffer any penalties for doing so. It seems as if Europe will give France permission to borrow off-balance sheet without any of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Land Issues (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 47. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to discuss enacting compulsory purchase orders to recover property from investment funds which may be land-banking sites which have the potential for development with the Department of Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11183/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 50. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to discuss immediately transferring land from the National Asset Management Agency to local authorities to increase the supply of social housing with the Department of Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11182/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to raise limits under the rent supplement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11469/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering measures to provide financial assistance to applicants for social welfare payments who are currently required to provide a valuation of any unused land they may have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11467/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 286. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider lowering the starting age for the State pension to 65 years of age to bring it in line with the general age of retirement; if his Department has carried out a financial impact assessment of such a measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11468/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 288. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will abolish the JobBridge scheme and replace it with targeted programmes aimed at specific groups, as advocated for by groups such as Impact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11470/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Refugee Council (19 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: On the same point, I accept that it would be very difficult to achieve that but it is worth trying. The Department of Justice and Equality is not really the right place for it. I have serious reservations about how the Minister for justice is handling anything to do with refugees. This area is definitely something we should support moving into the new Department.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Refugee Council (19 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am probably cheating a bit by going off the subject, but given that the witnesses have a very good understanding of the issues, do they think the Government could look at the idea of screening unaccompanied minors in camps like Calais and Dunkirk? With EU policy and the Greece-Turkey deal, a situation in which only Syrians are really being entertained, those being pushed back from Greece...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tiglin Challenge (19 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I was not going to ask a question. I wanted to compliment the witnesses. It was a very interesting presentation. What they seem to have achieved is great.

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister should call the Commissioner to account.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (18 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to seek a break from the European Union regarding the fiscal rules in order to secure finance to address the emergency in housing and homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10514/16]

Adjournment Debate: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: If Maurice McCabe had not made a recording, the judge would have been compelled to believe the two officers and Maurice McCabe would have been destroyed. This development was not even mentioned in the O'Higgins report. Surely, that undermines the report's integrity. We still do not know whether Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan's legal team, under her direction, handed documents to the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: On the point about 80% of landlords owning only one or two properties, I do not expect Ms Carroll to have the figure now but could she tell us how many properties are owned by the top 20 individual owners and whether they are investment funds or individuals? How much property does the top 20% control in the rental sector in Ireland? Ms Carroll referred to the need not to scare people out of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied with the performance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in its role as a confidential recipient; if she will improve this arrangement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 41. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her announcement in September 2015, to comment on Ireland's progress of resettling refugees; her engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to this and, in particular, her progress in resettling unaccompanied minor refugees, which she highlighted as a special priority; and if she will make a statement on...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Given the forum we are in, I am far more interested in what NAMA is going to do in the future than in what it did in the past. Mr. McDonagh said NAMA paid approximately €32 billion for assets that were worth approximately €5 billion less. I do not dispute the claim that they were worth no more than €25 billion but when NAMA was set up, the idea was not to flood the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Mr. Daly insists on sticking to his point that the biggest social dividend is to pay back the debt as soon as possible. Would he agree that would be regarded as a neoliberal position and that those who would think that the best interests of the people should be served before those of business might have a different view?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dublin Homeless Network, Limerick and Clare Homeless Alliance, Cork Social Housing Forum (12 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Chairman, I suggest that we invite Deputy Durkan to make a submission to the committee some day.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I thank Mr. Honohan for attending. His material is very good and definitely stimulates thought. His point about outright purchase certainly makes sense. We all know that if we start building, we will continue to have problems for at least three years anyway. The outright purchase would deal with it more quickly. Does Mr. Honohan think the argument for the public good in the...