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Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach said the last thing he wants to do is to make this problem worse. I would argue that not addressing the underlying problems in the housing crisis is making it worse. It beggars belief how poorly the Government has dealt with the housing crisis. This week, the Children’s Rights Alliance pointed out that in January 2015, 400 families with children had to go into...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Government has been nearly five years in office but the problems have not gone away. In fact, the housing crisis has got worse. It is not all on the Taoiseach’s plate. The housing crisis is a result of decades of housing policy that followed the private, free-market version. There is nothing wrong with the private sector making money out of building houses. That is what it...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 9. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied with the efforts of his Department to date as regards deepening Ireland's business relations with Saudi Arabia; if, at any meeting with his counterparts there such as on the trade mission he participated earlier in 2015, he raised the issue of the country's well-documented human rights violations; if human rights...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: A 21 year old boy, Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, has been sentenced to public crucifixion and beheading for joining an anti-government demonstration in Saudi Arabia when he was 17. The execution is reported to be imminent and all appeals to the King have been ignored. It is reported by the family that the boy is being tortured while he awaits his death. His execution, if it is carried out in...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said we have human rights standards but, seriously, we are only paying lip service to this. Each year, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation grants billions of euros worth of export licences for dual use goods that are sent by Irish-based firms to some of the most destabilised and war-torn regions on earth. Does the Minister know what role Irish firms may have...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said we are doing €1.5 billion worth of trade with them. I do not want to be responsible for losing jobs in Ireland. However, the Swedes were selling Saudi Arabia €1 billion worth of armoury per year. When the Saudis started bombing Yemen, they cancelled that and they are no longer selling to them out of respect for what is happening to Yemeni citizens. We are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Controls (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied that the oversight measures of his Department for controls on the export of military and dual use items from Ireland are adequate to ensure that such items are only used in accordance with international human rights law, in particular in regions experiencing conflict; if he will provide details of any discussions...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that a person (details supplied) and several other recipients of the carer's allowance in County Wexford did not receive their weekly payment recently due to a glitch in the system; her views that it is appropriate that the choice they were given is to either wait a week for a repayment or to travel, at their own...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (3 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of requests that have been made to his Department by the military of the United States of America for landing permits at Shannon Airport, or overflights, under the Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952 since March 2015; the number of such permissions that have been granted by his Department in that period; the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (3 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will guarantee that none of the military planes of the United States of America that have passed through Shannon Airport or Irish airspace in 2015, with permissions granted by his Department under the Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952, were on their way to contribute through refuelling sorties, to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (3 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 572. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Siochána stations that were closed in County Wexford between 1990 and 2000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37833/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (3 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 573. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to re-open any of the 139 Garda stations closed in 2012 and in 2013; re-open any of the three Garda stations in County Wexford that were closed during these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37834/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (3 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 759. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new model of care for adolescents with type 1 diabetes, outlined in the strategy document of the Paediatric Diabetes Working Group, which was set up by the Health Service Executive in 2011, will be launched, given the importance of this model to the quality of life of the children involved, and the fact that the launch date has already...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: I am one of those recklessly irresponsible people the Minister of State described who were opposed to imposing a tax on one's private home. The Taoiseach agreed with me on that, but obviously he changed his mind. However, he was of that opinion at one time. Obviously people get different ideas when they secure power. The Minister of State said that compliance with the property tax is...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: Yes, it was a little frightening. However, it will not be long before we are paying that amount anyway. It has already gone over the £500 level in Britain. The companies that run the water companies there are making a fortune from supplying water. They have become very wealthy. Anybody who thinks water will be cheap in this country a few years hence is living in cloud-cuckoo-land. ...

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings Bill) 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is tough. I was looking forward to having all 20 minutes to myself.

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings Bill) 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: I will not get to cover much this evening. Out and about in Wexford at the weekends during the past few months, I have found one of the most talked-about issues is rural crime. One of the speakers said the issue was, to a great degree, more about the fear of crime than crime itself. However, in Wexford people would argue that crime happens a lot. Our statistics are frightening. Since...

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings Bill) 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: I do not need any time to study.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staffing (22 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: 18. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department is taking to address the issue of staffing in mental health services, which, according to Mental Health Reform, was 22% below recommended levels in April 2015; the action he is taking to tackle mental health staffing issues in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36266/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: 48. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for specific measures to reduce the waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services across the country, which, according to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, has increased by 24% in a three- to six-month time period; the measures his Department is taking in this regard in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...