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Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Board (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the persons who served on the National Asset Management Agency's Northern Ireland advisory committee, and the period of service of these persons on the committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28603/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Data (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the persons who have worked as portfolio managers in the National Asset Management Agency; the period of service of these persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28604/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department compiles a list across all Departments of the State funding that is awarded to foreign private companies and indigenous private companies each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28679/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 342. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the State funding that his Department has awarded to foreign private companies; and to indigenous private companies, in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28678/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 343. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the State funding that his Department has awarded to foreign private companies; and to indigenous companies, in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28726/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 363. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department compiles a centralised list of all public funding that is provided, to foreign private companies; and to indigenous private companies, each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28723/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 344. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department keeps a record of the total cost of public spending provided to private companies in the form of direct aid, subsidies and tax breaks by his Department per year; if so, the total cost to the taxpayer in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28727/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 364. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department keeps a record of the cost of corporate welfare or public spending provided to private companies in the form of direct aid, subsidies and tax breaks by his Department; if so, for details of the cost to the taxpayer in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 365. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the latest round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; if, further to Parliamentary Question No.181 of 19 May 2015, he has had the opportunity to access the confidential reading rooms in the embassy of the United States of America in Dublin, in order to assess the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 366. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has read the source research upon which much of the growth data for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is based, namely Ecorys 2009 non-tariff measures in EU-US Trade and Investment and Economic Analysis (Rotterdam; Ecorys Netherlands BV), and CEPR 2013 reducing transatlantic barriers to trade and investment:...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Consultancy Contracts (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 424. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of any intelligence solutions offered by the Italian cybersecurity company (details supplied), which his Department has purchased; the negotiations or discussions he has had in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28509/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (14 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 491. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the recent inspection report made by the Health Information and Quality Authority, which was published on 3 July 2015, and which outlines serious concerns for children who may be at risk in the north Dublin area; the actions his Department plans to take in response to this report; and if he will make a statement on the...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (9 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 7. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the differences in mental health spending per capita in the various regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27699/15]

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (9 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: As the Minister is aware, I have raised this issue previously but as nothing has changed on the ground, I have to continue raising it. Why is it that in 2015 mental health spending per capitain the Wexford-Waterford region is €148 compared to €223 in Carlow-Kilkenny-south Tipperary, €198 in Mayo and €206 in Galway-Roscommon? Will the Minister explain the regional...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (9 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister. I am aware there is more positive thinking about how this issue should be dealt with. In 2006, A Vision for Change was launched on the basis of 8% of the health budget being spent on mental health when in fact it only reached 7.2%. It has since been cut back to 5.2%. According to the World Health Organization, mental health illness accounts for more than 15% of the...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (9 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: In 2010, before Wexford was merged with Waterford, there were 31 acute beds in St. Senan's hospital and 44 in Waterford, giving a total of 75 beds. Today, there are just 44 because St. Senan's has closed and the population has increased by 20,000 in the region. I am aware there are five beds in Newcastle in north Wicklow. It appears that the service in Wexford has decreased. Most of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the roll-out of service delivery reform in the area of mental health as envisaged under A Vision for Change, particularly in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27698/15]

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: When we had our first discussion on these amendments before the break for Private Members' business, the Minister of State tried to tell me that the Government is doing what I have been recommending. That is not true, however. The Government is not following my recommendation. Section 33(1)(a) of the Bill proposes to amend section 96 of the 2000 Act "in subsection (2), by inserting "prior...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: That is what I said.

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: I happened to hear the discussion on Leaders' Questions this morning when Deputy Adams argued that the Central Bank, rather than the Government, was running the State. The Deputy asked whether the Government would legislate to give the Central Bank powers to act on mortgage interest rates and stand up for Irish mortgage holders and called on the Taoiseach to answer his question with "Yes" or...