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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (21 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: 16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures that were introduced in budget 2016 to tackle some of the issues many parents face with child care, particularly in relation to the financial burden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35417/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures his Department has in place to facilitate the inclusion of children with special needs in mainstream preschool settings; the additional supports for this that were introduced in the budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35418/15]

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I would like 50 minutes but I will not get them. I will address several of the points which have been raised. Government speakers have stated that just because something had a par value of £4.5 billion and it ended up being sold for £1.241 billion, it does not mean it was sold for more than £3 billion too little, but the fact is that when NAMA...

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: I did not hear Deputy Martin make the statement that the current refugee crisis has nothing to do with Western policy. That is an amazing statement. I do not believe for a second that the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, would agree with that. I believe he would have a more open-minded approach than to come up with that notion. The refugee crisis in...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach has not answered the question.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: And every time the Taoiseach refuses to answer any questions.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: It does not want to answer questions.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach does not want the truth.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: The majority of Irish people no longer have confidence in NAMA. Yesterday, I asked An Garda Síochána to investigate, under section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, why NAMA did not report the discovery that US investment fund PIMCO had been requested to pay £5 million to a former member of the NAMA Northern Ireland Advisory Committee, Mr. Frank Cushnahan. Despite this, NAMA...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: Can the Taoiseach explain that to me? He might remind his friend Mr. Daly that these boys in America are not in the wedding planning business. Will the Taoiseach do this country a service and suspend the sale of Project Arrow, now rather than later? A serious amount of assets, over half of which are residential, are in the Republic. God knows, we could do with them to address the...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach is giving out about me not going before the Committee of Public Accounts, but he does not seem to have any problem with Mr. Daly misleading the same committee. I have gone to the Garda, I have been interviewed by the National Crime Agency and I have offered to go to New York. I do not actually believe the Taoiseach could possibly try to make out that the Committee of Public...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: Last week, I asked NAMA how it could have allowed the Project Eagle transaction to proceed knowing that Brown Rudnick and Tughans were involved, given that the same players were involved in the PIMCO deal in which the fixtures fee of £5 million had been sought for Mr. Frank Cushnahan. When I asked NAMA about this, Mr. Frank Daly replied, "Our advice is that such fee payments are not...

Other Questions: Criminal Law (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: According to a report by the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health published in 2010, "the conflation of consensual sex work and sex trafficking in such legislation leads to, at best, the implementation of inappropriate responses that fail to assist either of these groups in realising their rights and, at worst, to violence and oppression." The Minister stated that...

Other Questions: Garda Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: It may have taken them but the Minister is not taking them seriously.

Other Questions: Garda Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: That is an abuse of the word "independent".

Other Questions: Criminal Law (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: 113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that her Department's plans for the criminalisation of the purchase of sex are truly in the interest of those working in the sex industry, particularly given the recently publicised stance of Amnesty International calling for the decriminalisation of prostitution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35252/15]

Other Questions: Criminal Law (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: As we know, sex workers are one of the most vulnerable groups in society and need to be protected. Most international groups agree that the decriminalisation model is the only one that actually protects sex workers. Sadly, however, this Government has decided to push ahead with an agenda which will push the industry further underground, making it even less safe for the people involved. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: We all admit that some of the cases were clearly of a more serious nature than others. It would not have been rocket science for people to have gone through them quickly early in the process to pick out the most serious in order that they could have been put before a commission of investigation. They could even have been included with the examination of the Maurice McCabe issue. Perhaps it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: How did the Government think it would be finished in September 2014?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the independent review mechanism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35255/15]