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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 478. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units to be directly built in 2015 using the €312 million funding allocation for direct builds up to end 2017 that had received planning permission by 1 May 2015. [19395/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 479. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units to be directly built in 2015, using the €312 million funding allocation for direct-builds up to end 2017, that were, on 1 May 2015, under construction. [19396/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 480. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 537 of 6 May 2015, if he will provide a breakdown of the length of the lease terms of the social housing units delivered, between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015, through the social housing current expenditure programme via local authority units, leased or rented, and approved housing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 481. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if social housing units delivered through the social housing current expenditure programme via local authority units, leased or rented, and approved housing body units, leased, are leased by local authorities and approved housing bodies on an ad hoc, unit by unit, basis, in response to individual housing needs, as they...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 482. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if negotiations are under way to bring more investment vehicles like the one announced in February 2015, jointly backed by the Housing Finance Agency and the European Investment Bank, into operation between now and the end of 2017. [19399/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department has in place to assist small and medium sized steel fabricators with the implementation of the compliance requirements under I.S. EN 1090; if his Department has any grants in place, or envisages helping to offset the financial burden involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department plans to follow the example set by the United Kingdom and introduce compliance assistance grants in order to assist small and medium sized enterprises working in steel fabrication with their compliance obligations under I.S.EN 1090, which came into effect on 1 July 2014; and if he will make a statement...

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is good that Ireland is taking in some people. It has been one of the better countries at providing aid in some crises in which people are suffering badly. Rather than just examining the symptoms and trying to help in whatever way we can, it is surely time that we took on board the serious causes of the serious crises around the globe. As I stated before, the migrants did not just...

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: Hundreds of thousands are trying to get across the Mediterranean, not because they are chasing wonderful welfare benefits in Europe, but because their lives have been destroyed in the countries from which they have come. Sadly we do not seem to have a problem with the US using Shannon Airport as a military base to cause severe destruction in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. We...

Topical Issue Debate: Funding for ACCORD (14 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: Deputy McGrath is watching too much television.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (14 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that Bord na gCon is following through on its commitments to attract more owners, breeders and trainers to the greyhound industry, particularly in view of the recent 20% cut to prize money, and the deductions from race grants for breeding incentives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18672/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Drugs in Sport (14 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 29. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the types of sanctions imposed on greyhounds that tested positive for banned substances in 2013 and 2014 and to date in 2015; the number of these that consisted of fines; the amount of each fine; the names and quantities of the substances found; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18671/15]

Independent Planning Regulator: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: I would like an hour to speak about housing because it is hard to know where to start. Ireland is facing a massive housing crisis. The Government did nothing about it for four years and I do not think it is doing anything serious about it now. It is simply sticking a plaster on the issue while ignoring the underlying problems. We do not have a housing strategy. The Government must not be...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the chapters of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership regarding regulatory co-operation; if he will provide a progress update on the latest negotiations at European Union level in relation to the Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18405/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the concerns raised in many corners regarding the human rights implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, including the recent call, reported in the British newspaper, The Guardian, from a former senior official in the United Nations, Mr Alfred de Zayas, calling for the suspension of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Funding (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the 2013 accounts for Bord na gCon will be published; if he will provide details of the way the additional €2.8 million allocated to Bord na gCon in the last budget will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18749/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Staff (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the former internal auditor of the Irish Greyhound Board was made redundant in 2013; if he will provide details of the circumstances and arrangements surrounding the redundancy; if he will confirm that his redundancy was in line with Government guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18750/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the equipment for the detection of prohibited substances in racing greyhounds, located in the National Greyhound Laboratory in County Limerick, is up to date and adequate in preventing doping; if he will provide details of when the latest drug testing equipment was purchased; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the skills gap identified by the Indecon Report 2014, in relation to the Irish Greyhound Board, has been filled; the measures he has taken, or is taking, in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18752/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (13 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the legal status of greyhounds registered and racing, whose registration was in breach of the Artificial Insemination of Greyhounds Regulations 2005, in view of the fact that they were conceived by frozen sperm more than two years after the death of the stud sire, and before the 2014 amendment to these...