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Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: No problem. As the Minister will be well aware, Deputy Clare Daly and I introduced Garda Bills in 2013 and 2014. The Garda authority proposed in our legislation is unrecognisable in the authority proposed in the Bill before us. I do not know how the Minister can claim the authority is independent when it clearly has the paws of the Government all over it. Lack of speaking time means I...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I would like to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I will take 20 minutes and he will take ten minutes.

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Hello, Minister. How are you?

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I would have liked to have an hour. Before the summer, we did a great deal of work on this legislation and went through the various sections. I will have time to cover just a few sections today. Generally speaking, I consider that the proposed authority is much weaker than the one we proposed in our Bill. It is clear that ministerial and political control over the authority, the Garda...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I have mentioned some of the issues in Part 1 - sections 1 to 7 - of the Bill, so I will not go back over them. Part 2 of the Bill relates to the personnel and organisation of the Garda Síochána. On the appointments issue, section 8 of the Government's Bill sets out that the Garda Commissioner and any deputy Garda Commissioners are to be appointed by the Government and the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 18. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in advance of the upcoming budget, the measures she has taken to undertake specific measures to further the promotion of the arts, with regard to the creation of jobs in creative industries and the support of emerging artists, along with the other recommendations in the Irish Music Rights Organisation's report The Socio-Economic...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 24. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in view of the upcoming budget, she has had any discussions with the Department of Social Protection in relation to a specific grant to assist artists starting out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32198/15]

Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Okay. The Minister has the gist of my points. I would love to be able to get on a train to or from Wexford at weekends instead of driving in traffic that can be soul destroying. Rail is a beautiful way to travel. We must upgrade the system. It requires a great deal of investment. I have often stated how wrong it is that the EU does not have an arrangement under which governments can...

Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Whenever the Minister gets around to building metro north, he should ensure it passes by the Asti Restaurant on Russell Street, outside Croke Park.

Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Plenty of development levies were applied when I was building it and, believe it or not, we paid them. I realise that what is before us is technical legislation, but I welcome the occasion to address the issue it raises of public transport. There has been a serious lack of discussion of the Government's transport strategy. In response to one of my written questions last April, the Minister...

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is talking about us providing funding for aid which is all very well and good, but many of the refugees who are coming to Europe at present are trying to get to countries that have played a part in bombing their homes and killing their relatives, be it through the use of airports or through the sale of arms. Where is the logic in that? Why do we continue to allow Shannon to...

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: We have touched on this subject many times before. We raised the issue a few times last winter when Operation Mare Nostrum was cancelled and the attitude was that we were only encouraging refugees by pulling them out of the sea. We then discovered that when we do not pull them out of the sea they drown in it. It is to be welcomed that we have decided to take in some people. We did not...

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is actually very well connected to it. Another related issue is that the refugees do not come from nowhere. We allow Shannon Airport to be used by the US military, who bomb people's homes and create refugees. The amount of weaponry being used in the world in the last four years has risen by 16% compared to the previous four years, and we facilitate it. Right now, we are allowing...

Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister stated that everything that is happening is consistent with our foreign policy objectives. He stated his major concern is the safety of the aircraft and the personnel on them. If this is consistent with Ireland's foreign affairs policy, is the Minister comfortable with that fact? Perhaps a new policy is needed because there was a time when we used to consider ourselves to be...

Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Is the Minister serious?

Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: That is unbelievable.

Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Unbelievable.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft Landings (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 18. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the exemptions granted by his Department regarding civil aircraft used by foreign militaries under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order 1973, if his Department undertakes any particular measures to ensure that, with regard to aircraft which secure exemptions to carry...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft Landings (23 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of any discussions he has had with the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Justice and Equality and-or Defence in relation to the system of oversight regarding the landing at Shannon Airport of civil aircraft used by foreign militaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31812/15]

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Deputy Daly and I are swapping speaking slots. She is a bit shy.