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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools that have a full-time guidance counsellor; the number that do not have a full-time guidance counsellor; the percentage of these that are fee-paying and that are non-fee-paying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25804/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (30 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures taken to ensure that circulars from her Department uphold the best interests of the child and Ireland's international legal obligations, particularly in view of the reservations stressed in this regard in the 2013 Annual Report of the Ombudsman for Children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25879/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and the percentage of schools in County Wexford that have a full-time guidance counsellor broken down by fee-paying schools and non-fee-paying schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25880/15]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 8. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 26 May 2015, if he will provide a breakdown of the costs involved for the Irish Defence Forces in providing aid to the civil power at Shannon Airport from January 2015 up to 18 June 2015; the role of the Defence Forces in such operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25100/15]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: My question relates to the cost of using the Defence Forces at Shannon Airport, what that money achieves and whether the Minister will consider making better use of that money. Does he not think it is a bit ironic that we are saving lives in the Mediterranean while facilitating the destruction of lives by using our Defence Forces to allow Shannon to be used as a US military airbase?

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We were told recently by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade that the US was being granted blanket permission for overflights of unarmed military aircraft. Military aircraft are landing in Shannon Airport and the Defence Forces are more or less protecting them from anyone who might want to reveal the truth that they are in breach of international law by carrying munitions through a...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: I am sure the Minister respects the courts of this land. At the court hearing in Shannon when we were charged with illegal entry, three individuals testified to the fact that they saw arms on military planes, in the cabin and underneath. This testimony was given under oath and the judge accepted it. Does this not concern the Government? The Minister is a member of the Cabinet and there is...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: There are 10,000 there still.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: They certainly cannot.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We would prefer if they stayed at home.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: They are breaking international law.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Is that so they can go on and kill people in the Middle East?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (25 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 24. To ask the Minister for Defence the role that the Irish Defence Forces are taking, and plan to take, in the new European Union military mission which intends to disrupt the groups involved in migrant smuggling in Libya; his position as regards the seeking of a United Nations Security Council resolution for the next phase in this mission; if he will provide details of discussions he has...

Credit Unions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Unlike Deputy Finian McGrath, I cannot claim to have set up a credit union but my father did, in the Wellingtonbridge area of County Wexford many years ago. Most of us agree that credit unions have been of great service to many people. I do not think anyone could disagree. They are definitely worth preserving and need greater freedom to operate. Restrictions are placed on them and it is...

Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: I suspect the third Member from the Minister of State's constituency might not make it here. I do not see him. We will use up the time anyway. I do not have anything against the Minister of State, but I miss the Minister. Having said to some journalists recently that I would love to be the Minister, I hope the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, is not too...

Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: I said I would love to be. I would add that I would just love to be the manager of the Italian national football team but it is also probably unlikely to happen. On the issue of the Bill and terrorism, I will start with an interesting statistic. The US State Department reported that only 17 US citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011. That figure includes deaths in...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Ireland is the only EU15 country that has frozen the national minimum wage since 2007, which is eight years ago now. The idea of a Low Pay Commission is welcome, but I have the feeling that its recommendations are likely to be unimpressive and if the neoliberal agenda and austerity measures introduced by the last two Governments are not seriously scaled back, it will take more than a rise in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 19. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the cuts to the one-parent family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24803/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the recent call from the Irish Postmasters' Union for the withdrawal of revised Department of Social Protection forms which may encourage payment of social protection payments through banks rather than post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24804/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtor Agreements (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances under which the National Asset Management Agency, an insolvency officeholder appointed by the agency or an agency service provider may agree a method of disposal of assets with a debtor or insolvency practitioner with more limited marketing or reporting requirements than those laid out in its guidance note for disposal of real estate...