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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (2 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied with his Department's reform process to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26395/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (2 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has read the Nevin Institute's Summer 2015 Quarterly Economic Observer, which predicts that Ireland will have one of the lowest, if not the lowest, government expenditures in the EU by 2019; if he is satisfied that the promised 50:50 ratio of tax cuts to public services investment is the most effective use of public expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Reform (2 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he plans to take to address the fact that many homeless persons are currently unable to vote in any election or referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26748/15]

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Government has made it very clear that the neoliberal imperative to maximise economic competitiveness guides all its policies, no matter what the cost to the people. Even any discussion of the minimum wage must be subordinate to meeting the needs of international market ideology, rather than the needs of the low paid in Ireland, as was established here last week. This morning, the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: When the euro project was being formed, the German Minister for Finance at the time, Oskar Lafontaine, spoke of the "vision of a united Europe, to be reached through the gradual convergence of living standards, [and] a deepening of democracy..." In The Guardian last week Aditya Chakrabortty wrote in the same context: "Instead of raising living standards across Europe, monetary union is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: Am I understand that they have the capacity to test for Stanozolol? If they have, can the Minister of State explain to me why Irish dogs that have gone to Britain have tested positive for Stanozolol when they never test positive in Ireland? I do not understand that and neither do many people in the industry. We all know there have been problems in the greyhound industry for a while....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is not my fault. The Minister and Deputy "quare fellow" there went on so long.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: No, I blame the other Deputy more.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: Will the results of the review to which the Minister of State referred be made public? On Stanozolol, the winner of the William Hill Derby in the UK, an Irish dog, was disqualified for testing positive for Stanozolol only recently. A breeder in Wexford was on to me last week. He told me that he could only get €900 now for a dog for which he would have got €3,500 ten years ago...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State and I are talking to different people.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Bord na gCon National Greyhound Testing Laboratory in County Limerick has accreditation for testing for Stanozolol; if he will provide an up-to-date certificate of accreditation for Bord na gCon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26374/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: In response to a parliamentary question in May the Minister outlined that Bord na gCon had never identified any greyhound with a positive Stanozolol test result, implying that we did not have a problem with the drug in Ireland. The truth is very different. The most up-to-date accreditation certificate for the National Greyhound Laboratory available on the Bord na gCon website does not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: A German NGO research group, called Testbiotech, strongly criticised the German report the Minister is talking about and stated that the report failed to evaluate several peer review studies which were omitted for unknown reasons. To frighten us a bit more, they told us that Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment's pesticide committee has employees from pesticide giants that profit...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister referred to the World Health Organization but the body that I referred to, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, is a WHO body. The Minister will probably be familiar as well with the fact the Corporate Europe Observatory has shown that the current authorisation of glyphosate relies on old out-dated testing protocols and, almost exclusive, on industry studies. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is outrageous that the Minister would argue that there are not persons lobbying on behalf of large corporate profits.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: Look at what is going on with the TTIP. I refer to most of those trying to water down the regulations in Europe at present. The pressure is coming from lobbyists for big industry that has a profit motive and profits are being put before the health of the people. The Government should put the health of the Irish people before the profits of large chemical corporations making crazy money.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: Ban this substance then.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is ignoring the WHO.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: This is not safe.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: I am bringing the results to the Minister.