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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Projects (19 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projects and initiatives he has funded in County Wexford in the past year, including the announcement date of each funding package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2006/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (19 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 205. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in its current form is weighted heavily in favour of corporations at the expense of citizens and, in particular, the regulatory co-operation provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2338/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (19 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 206. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, at any of the recent consultations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, he or any other delegate raised concerns regarding the shifting of some of the more controversial issues in the TTIP to a time after the conclusion of the agreement, as has been flagged by many international democracy watchdogs; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (19 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 448. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allocate additional funds for the provision of social housing across the country, and in County Wexford alone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2005/16]

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: Most people agree that there are problems with our health service. Indeed, it would be a surprise if there were none. The Taoiseach came to power with a revolutionary plan for changing the health service. Fine Gael's big idea was for universal health insurance, free general practitioner, GP, care for all, the slashing of hospital waiting lists, the abolition of the HSE and the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering measures to introduce a tax on sugar sweetened drinks, particularly in view of the related information released under freedom of information in December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1339/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (14 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has analysed the impact of real estate investment trusts on the Irish rental market and on property portfolios; if so, if he will provide details; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1338/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (14 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will lower the starting age for the State pension to 65 years of age to bring it in line with the general age of retirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1716/16]

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Government is not directly responsible for the rain, but it does have responsibilities in dealing with it. There have been many calls for the dredging of rivers and there have been statements from the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government about the provision of the greatest response ever seen to the flooding crisis. There has been something of a panic attack...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 16 December 2015, if she will introduce measures to ensure equality in the calculation of contributory pension entitlements, for example, by speeding up the introduction of the promised yearly average system with a total contributions approach and by allowing such a system...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (13 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the time limits for Community Employment Schemes, particularly in cases where there are no new applicants for positions vacated as a result of the time limit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1136/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Application (13 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance the guidelines or rules he has in place for mortgage lending institutions regarding the methods of calculation of tax relief at source for individual mortgage holders, or if it is the case that lending institutions can use their own discretion in this regard; if he is satisfied that the current procedures in place regarding the repayment of mortgages...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Application (13 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he has in place to assist members of the public in being made aware of their entitlements and rights under the tax relief at source scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1171/16]

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: In March 2003, a backbench Deputy stated here: "How can anyone say that an aeroplane loaded with military equipment flying through Shannon Airport to a war situation in Iraq, without a UN mandate, does not contribute to, if not represent, participation in that activity?" He went on to add that "one of those possible consequences is the possibility that Shannon and Ireland will become targets...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: When she started in politics, did the Tánaiste think she would be deputy leader of a Government that promotes a war campaign that has led to the deaths of almost 2 million innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq alone? Is the Tánaiste prepared to take any action to stop Shannon Airport being used to facilitate the war-mongering and violent ends of the US war machine? Across the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste has said she is in favour of peace. She has been in government for five years. When Labour were in opposition, they were in favour of searching US military planes in case they were carrying arms and munitions through Shannon. Not one plane has been checked since the Government came to power. How can the Tánaiste say she is promoting peace and not war? Last year...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (17 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 3 November 2015, if he is satisfied that our stated foreign policy of neutrality is not compromised by the use of Shannon Airport by the United States military, which has landed over 343 military aircraft there since March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45413/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (17 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 3 November 2015, if he has considered reviewing Ireland's long-standing arrangements under which the United States is granted blanket permission for overflights by unarmed military aircraft, particularly in view of the concerns raised in a number of quarters regarding Ireland's neutrality; and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 1b:In page 3, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“3. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (5) by inserting the following after “Oireachtas.”:“Each House of the Oireachtas shall be called upon to debate and vote upon approval of these guidelines following the laying of these guidelines before the Houses.”.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: Almost all the Deputies on this side of the House like the idea of matters being set in regulation and not left in the hands of a politician no matter who he is or what party he represents. It is not the way forward. We would do policing in Ireland if the politicians did not have their paws all over it. Likewise, building regulation should be independent of the paws of politicians. It...