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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her Department's plans to increase rent supplement limits to deal with the continuous rise in rent prices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33036/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Funding (30 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 131 of 15 July 2015 and 343 of 14 July 2015, his views on the discrepancy between the figures provided by his Department in relation to State funding awarded to indigenous private companies by the county enterprise boards and local enterprise offices; and if he will make a statement on the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: We also believe the process should be speeded up in order to provide for the adoption of the first national mitigation plan. The plan should be adopted within six months of the passing of the Act and not 24 or 18, as currently proposed. We need to do a bit more. I find it hard to credit because, at this rate, 2020 will be on top of us and we will not have done anything. We will be...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Some things are difficult to do because of time limits and restrictions of one kind or another and other things become less challenging. This place has stayed open all night to pass legislation in emergency situations. Many people who are very concerned about climate change would say this is an emergency situation. Not everybody is clued in about the issue or on the same wavelength but the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 20:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(d) a projection of the long term savings and costs to the exchequer posed by climate change.”.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 21:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(d) a projection of the long term savings and costs to the exchequer as a result of climate change mitigation.”.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Given that the Minister of State has accused me of being impractical, I insist that my proposal is more practical than the Government's. I have already spoken on the amendment.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I would have nothing to do with her.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister of State for her words but we must agree to differ. I will be pressing the amendment.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: No.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 19:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“(d) the risk to public health and associated costs to the Health Service Executive posed by climate change.”. I will speak to amendments Nos. 20 and 21 as well. I find it strange that they were not grouped, as I find them to be connected.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Fine. As I mentioned before, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform estimates that the cost to the Exchequer to purchase compliance will be billions of euro by 2030, in a business as usual scenario. The point of these amendments is to put into law a system of accounting that will take into account the human and financial cost of action versus inaction on climate change. This was...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 18:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“(d) the principle of climate justice.”. The principle of climate justice is based on the idea that there is an ecological debt owed by the north to the south. We in the highly industrialised north are most responsible for the build-up of atmospheric carbon. We pulled ourselves out of poverty by...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: In January 2014, US investor Blackstone acquired three properties from Project Platinum for €100 million. It is now looking to offload them for €170 million. That is a profit of 70%, not 7%. Despite the fact the buildings were yielding approximately 6% per annum in rents, while NAMA's cost of money was less than 1%, there was still a panic to sell them. Following PIMCO's...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Can the Taoiseach tell me why the reserve price was reduced by €60 million? Can he find out if this might be connected to reports regarding a developer whose loans were in Project Eagle and who came to NAMA to complain about being approached by fixers who were seeking a backhander in order for him to buy his loans back at 50p in the pound from Cerberus in the autumn of 2013, months...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I raised this with the Taoiseach before the summer recess. Why does he insist on doing nothing about it? Why does he not want to get answers to the questions that have been raised? We have loads of questions and there are more every week, but we have received no answers. Why is the Taoiseach not interested?

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I get the impression the Taoiseach is trying to hide behind the fig leaf of Oireachtas committees. I have already been to the Garda and I have been to the National Crime Agency, the British authority that is investigating the matter. I have already been to both of them. However, I cannot understand why the Taoiseach does not want to do anything about it. Cerberus is under criminal...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I realise these are serious players. I was recently summoned to a meeting by a public figure and a message was passed on to me from a leading member of Cerberus Ireland that I was going to get sorted. Why would they have to say that if I am telling the truth? Can the Taoiseach understand that?

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Is the Taoiseach going to give serious consideration to the questions that are swirling around in respect of NAMA? As I said before, the workings of NAMA have left too much to be desired and there is a lot which is rotten about it. Is it going to be the Taoiseach's legacy that he ignored all of this? Is it going to be part of his history that he chose to ignore what is going on in NAMA?

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Why does the Taoiseach not find out?