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Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is good to see the Minister here. She referred to a change to section 106 that would allow GSOC to examine policies, practices and procedures. Does it come under this section?

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister referred to the police authority. Based on the heads of the Bill, there is a strong fear that it will not be as strong as it could be and Government and ministerial influence will remain very powerful. The policing authority is almost seen as a body advising the Minister, and this role is listed as one of its functions, which is concerning. It leaves the Minister with the...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: Thank you, Ceann Comhairle. I am delighted you are in good form this week.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: I want to express my disappointment. I admire the Minister of State but it is disappointing the Minister for Justice and Equality is not in the Chamber. I came in twice, on different days, while the Bill was being debated and the Minister was not present. I have made point during Leaders' Questions that the manner in which the Government is dealing with challenges at the legislative level...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: I support Deputy Mac Lochlainn's amendment. I do not suggest that anyone should get fired, but I feel there should be a head and the others should be called assistants. When Emily Logan operated as Children's Ombudsman and Emily O'Reilly as Ombudsman, they were seen as figureheads in their areas. It gave them a certain extra strength that they were more or less the boss. The Minister...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: There is a lot of coursing in Wexford.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: We have heard a lot of late about Deputy Shatter's efforts to influence the terms of reference for the commission of investigation. Deputy Clare Daly and I tried to influence those terms of reference in regular fashion by way of tabling an amendment. What is the position in relation to that amendment at this stage?

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: We were allowed to submit an amendment.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: 15. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 3 December 2014 the progress made since the beginning of 2015 on the public consultation on the introduction of a tax on vacant sites, as outlined in his budget speech in view of rising property prices and a shortage of supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4705/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Conference (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support Syriza's call for a European debt conference; his views on offering Ireland as a venue for such a conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4704/15]

Other Questions: Penalty Points System (3 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: Why does the Minister think it took Sergeant Maurice McCabe to actually bring it to the attention of the Commissioner and the Minister for Justice and Equality in August and September? The recommendations about which the Minister is talking are the same recommendations we have received several times. We had the same recommendations included in the GPSU's report which came out at the same...

Other Questions: Penalty Points System (3 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: Confining final decisions on terminations on the PULSE system to three people in Thurles is a good idea because, obviously, senior gardaí around the country proved themselves to be irresponsible enough that they could not be left with responsibility for the system. Will the Minister explain how things are going to get better if the senior ranks of the Garda remain undisciplined? Of all...

Other Questions: Penalty Points System (3 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on measures his Department has taken or will take in order to rectify malpractice in the penalty points system, particularly in view of the recent Garda report which found that abuses are still occurring in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4349/15]

Other Questions: Penalty Points System (3 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Department has a major stake in the fixed charge notice system. The nine reports produced since the system was introduced in 2002 found that senior gardaí were wilfully ignoring policy on the fixed charge notice system and unfairly and inconsistently applying it. While I acknowledge that the Department of Justice and Equality is responsible for the implementation of the system,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (3 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on his Department's role in the processing of exemptions for the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order 1973; the arrangements between his Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in this...

Other Questions: Gas Exploration Licences (29 Jan 2015)

Mick Wallace: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if and when interim reports will be published on the research being undertaken by the Environment Protection Agency for the environmental impacts of unconventional gas exploration and extraction study, particularly in relation to the possibility of granting exploration licences for fracking here; and if he will make a...

Other Questions: Gas Exploration Licences (29 Jan 2015)

Mick Wallace: Hardly a month goes by without hearing more concerning news about the effects of fracking on our health and our planet. I am concerned as to whether the EPA investigation into this area has produced results yet and what is the Government's plan in this area.

Other Questions: Gas Exploration Licences (29 Jan 2015)

Mick Wallace: We have been skirting around the subject for a while now and it has come to a certain point. Governments in Ireland and elsewhere will be left with a massive challenge to clean up the mess left by previous governments. The Government discusses doing so in economic terms in respect of the people who were in office before it. On an environmental level, people are waking up to the fact that...

Other Questions: Gas Exploration Licences (29 Jan 2015)

Mick Wallace: The concept of the effect on health should be paramount but we cannot just pay lip-service to it. We must be proactive and tackle some of the problems that could arise to damage our health. The Minister, Deputy Alex White, spoke to Deputy Boyd Barrett during the last question about the 2020 programme targets. It was worrying to hear the Taoiseach refer last Tuesday week to Ireland being in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Gas Exploration Licences (29 Jan 2015)

Mick Wallace: 32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details on measures his Department is taking to prevent the practice of fracking in this country, particularly in view of its well documented health and environmental impacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3917/15]