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Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: This is just ridiculous. Obviously, I am not allowed to speak on matters about which certain people do not want to hear.

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: I am not being allowed to speak.

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: Will I be given additional time?

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: This is crazy. We are discussing lobbying and how people involved in business who have close links with the Government of the day may gain favour. I am not stating such individuals will always gain favour, but they may gain it on occasion. Do we scrutinise matters to ensure everything is done in a proper manner? I do not believe we do. Will the Bill address that problem? Again, I do not...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: I welcome that on foot of the recommendations from the Mahon report that the lobbying of public officials, Ministers and their Departments is to be regulated in this Bill. The public will be able to see which individuals and interests are lobbying which Departments and the specific individuals in each Department, as well as being able to examine the motivation for the lobbying and the extent...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: When will the heads of the health reform Bill be published? A great many reforms are required in the health sector. On Tuesday last week outside Wexford General Hospital four ambulances were queueing to deliver patients but there were not enough staff in the hospital at the time to take in the patients. There are only five ambulances in the county. Surely the scenario of four of them...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (30 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: 84. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the forthcoming seminar scheduled in November by the Genesis II group, in which unregulated products such as MMS and CD, which claim to cure autism and cancer and are banned in the US and UK, will be sold; if the Health Products Regulatory Authority has the necessary powers to ensure these events do not take place; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Redress Scheme (30 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: 120. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a new redress scheme for survivors of symphysiotomy in view of the fact that the ex gratia compensation scheme designed by Judge Yvonne Murphy has been rejected by survivors and criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36504/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (30 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: 157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to enhanced redundancy payments in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason this payment has not yet been provided; the steps she is taking to expedite this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36875/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (30 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: 328. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he has taken to address the fact that thousands of cases concerning children at risk have not yet been allocated a social worker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37093/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (30 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: 329. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he has taken following comments by the Ombudsman for Children that safe social work is not possible in some parts of the country due to the size of the caseloads facing individual social workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37094/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will acquire the Rosmini facility (details supplied) in Gracepark Road, Dublin 9 as a specific centre for the education of blind and autistic children. [36838/14]

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: I have been involved in the construction industry for most of my life and for most of that time there has been no housing strategy. I am not sure that one will be introduced in the near future. I can think of four important elements to a housing strategy: quantity, location, quality and affordability. There have been huge housing problems in this country for some time because there was...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: First, I wish to raise the issue of the national lottery grants because I was away at the time of the announcement of this year's allocations. I was actually in Brazil, at a sporting occasion, trying to keep up to date with football and making sure that I did not fall behind. I was delighted that members of the media missed me while I was away. That was appreciated. On the question of...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: Given the value that sport brings to communities across the island, any further investment by the State in sport is money well invested, especially in the context of the cost of alcohol abuse exceeding €3 billion per annum. It is hardly rocket science to suggest that sport at its best helps to reduce abuse of alcohol because those playing sport at a high level cannot abuse alcohol and...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Minister says we have a balanced approach and a neutral position in our foreign policy dealings. Do I take it, then, that we will be voting to have Israel signed up to the non-proliferation treaty tomorrow? In addition, if we are so balanced and neutral, can the Minister explain why, on 1 September, when the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan, was asked...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: There is little sign of balance there. A year ago, the United States threatened to bomb Assad's forces. Now that country is bombing the latter's enemies. The place is gone mad and the United States-led militarisation of the whole region is causing chaos. The United States and its allies are at the heart of the problem; they are not the solution.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: The United States war machine has been nothing short of a destructive force.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: Will we continue to support the promotion of the arms industry, no matter what? Are we no longer to have any individual, unique opinion of our own? Will the Government continue to facilitate imperial warfare through the use of Shannon Airport, which has, at this stage, gone too far?

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: America has been at war, in the form of troops on the ground, air strikes, drone assassination missions, bloody and violent occupations and illegal covert special operations, almost non-stop since the Vietnam War in more than half a century of bloodshed, terror and violence. In recent years, the Americans have invaded more than 20 countries without United Nations sanction, thereby breaching...