Results 4,521-4,540 of 7,404 for speaker:Mick Wallace

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Funding (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional grants or financial subsidies for training courses available under Skillnets, SOLAS or the education and training boards, which many steel fabricators are now obliged to complete, at considerable cost to themselves, in order for their products to be in line with European Union, Conformité Européene,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the third section of the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 was passed in December 2014, six years after the passing of the rest of the Act; the measures that were taken to update this particular section of legislation, to ensure that it would adequately reflect the developments in technology and digital rights...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an assessment was carried out on the recently enacted section 3 of the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 to ensure that it is in full compliance with the European Charter on Fundamental Rights, following the 2014 ruling of the European Court of Justice, which found the European Data Retention Directive to be invalid, in view of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or any other Irish Governmental officials were aware if the British authorities were monitoring Irish telephone and internet communications for years, via underwater cables, as uncovered by a person (details supplied) in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22623/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the revelations of a person (details supplied) in 2014, which alleged that billions of Irish communications, telephone and internet, were and are being intercepted, recorded and stored through a series of underwater cables by the Government Communications Headquarters in Britain; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions or investigations that were carried out, or are being carried out, by her Department on foot of the Wikileaks reports in 2014 that large numbers of Irish telephone and-or Internet communications were being intercepted by the General Communications Headquarters in Britain, and were then shared with other intelligence agencies; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Irish Government authorised the British monitoring or tapping of undersea cables, as reported by a person (details supplied) in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22626/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of any communication she has had with the Minister for Foreign Affairs regarding the reported tapping of the underwater cable by the General Communications Headquarters in Britain; if she is satisfied that any such reported surveillance is entirely a matter of within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 15 January 2015, if she has had any communication with the authorities in the United Kingdom, in response to the reports of tapping of the undersea communications cables by the General Communications Headquarters in Britain; if she has asked these authorities directly, in the interests of transparency...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 131. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 26 May 2015, the measures that are in place to ensure that patients presenting at Wexford General Hospital with mental health issues and who have also misused substances do not get discharged before they have been assessed, in view of the standard practice of postponing assessment until the patient is no longer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm reports that in 2009 plans for an acute ward in Wexford General Hospital were in the Health Service Executive south's capital plan, as mentioned by the executive's then manager of mental health and elderly services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22525/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 133. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether it is appropriate that a person presenting with suicidal tendencies at Wexford General Hospital and in need of consultation with a psychiatrist would have to go through two accident and emergency departments, in Wexford and in Waterford, in order to see a psychiatrist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22526/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 134. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's policy or plans for early intervention for psychosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22527/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 135. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any multidisciplinary teams in County Wexford which work on early intervention for psychosis or other disorders; if so, if these teams are fully staffed; if there are community-based interventions for such disorders in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22528/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide feedback of any communications he has had with the British authorities regarding the alleged tapping of underwater cables by the intelligence authorities in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22605/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions his Department has taken in response to reports in 2014 of the tapping of underwater cables for intelligence purposes on the part of the Government Communications Headquarters in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22606/15]

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We are discussing the terms of reference of an inquiry into the State's alleged preferential treatment of the private sector, in particular deals that may have cost the Irish taxpayer substantial sums of money. It is a bit like the US military holding an investigation into the causes of violence in the Middle East. The Government is unashamedly neoliberal, as was the one before it. It is...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Are we within our right to resubmit the amendment?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We will press it.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Although the Chairman stated Standing Order 156(3) does not allow for the imposition of any undue expense on the Exchequer, surely we should be allowed to debate these amendments in the Chamber. Rather than ruling them out of order, would it not be in the interest of transparency for us to discuss whether there may be a future cost to the Exchequer, or whether the amendments would save the...