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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Racial Profiling (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his position and belief has now changed regarding the existence of racial or ethnic profiling within An Garda Síochána as indicated by his comments at the annual conference of Garda superintendents on 9 April 2014; the action he will now take and legislation he will now introduce to address these concerns, to include legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 12. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail and publish his strategy and An Garda Síochána action plan addressing the concerns and recommendations arising from the Data Protection Commissioner’s internal audit in March 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19269/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 14. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he forward a document which summarises the differences between the Verrimus report and the RITS peer review regarding GSOC bugging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19270/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Haddington Road Agreement Review (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the current Haddington Road review of An Garda Síochána focuses only on resources, staffing, pay and industrial relations matters, if he will consider extending these terms to encompass the first ever full and independent root and branch review of An Garda Síochána to include for example Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Appeals Tribunal Decisions (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 528. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the method and criteria used in the appointment, not initial selection, of members to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal in November 2013 and March 2014; if he will consider introducing a legislative requirement in the long-awaited IRP Bill that such appointments must be made through open competition along with a legislative requirement that members...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 580. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will publish the Commission of Investigation report of Grainne McMorrow SC into the death in 2007 of a person (details supplied) in Mountjoy Prison; if he will publish this in its entirety; and the action he will take on foot of the contents of that report. [19228/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gender Balance Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 583. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the gender pay gap, which has increased to 14.4%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12173/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that, in the context of the ongoing reviews of medical card provision, all survivors of symphysiotomy and pubiotomy will continue to retain their entitlement to the special SOS medical cards they were granted, as part of a package of wider health supports for those who underwent these operations [18903/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (17 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 15. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the fact that the national cultural institutions are required to be in compliance with public sector pay and recruitment policy as set down by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, if it is acceptable for these institutions to advertise full-time unpaid internships; and if he will make a statement on the...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said that diversity of content and ownership across the media remains an important part of a healthy democratic society and I fully agree with him. However, he also said that he was retaining the basic model of current laws based on the principle of avoiding intervention by Government in media ownership, except in specific circumstances following procedures determined by law. I...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: There is no doubt that supply is a problem. However, price is also a problem. Rent supplement has been reduced, while rents are increasing. I know many people in Wexford who have been obliged to make up the shortfall which has resulted from this. In Dublin, rents are going through the roof. There is a good reason for this. Huge numbers of apartments - including a number I developed -...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: Yesterday, I was contacted by three young men in their early 20s who are seeking to rent an apartment in the docklands area of Dublin. They were asked to pay €1,800 for the privilege. This is because there is a cartel in place as a result of the fact that a small number of people own all the apartments that are available.

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: I checked the position in Wexford last week and I discovered that there are fewer than ten boarded-up homes.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (16 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in relation to the Gateway scheme the reasons participation in the initiative is mandatory rather than voluntary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17692/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (16 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the research that was undertaken by her Department in advance of the introduction of the Gateway scheme to assess whether mandatory work schemes are effective in improving an unemployed person's prospects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17691/14]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons) Order 2014: Motion (15 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach said today that the commission shall exercise discretion regarding the scope and intensity of the investigations it considers necessary and appropriate. He also said that the commission shall have the discretion to decide to limit its investigation. Does he actually want the truth or the minimum? Mr. Justice Fennelly has not been asked outright to examine the issue of the...

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: Ireland is probably the dearest little country in which to live and survive. Given that there has been a huge increase in what can only be described as precarious work, the great majority of the new jobs created in the last couple of years have been low paid and many of them are temporary as well, with very poor working conditions in many cases. It has reached a stage where the worker does...

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: Perhaps I do not have well-off friends like Deputy McGrath but for a large number of workers in the low-paid sector it has reached a point where people with jobs are suffering deprivation. The Minister states that the Government increased the minimum wage, and it was good that this happened, but the minimum wage is too low for people to have a decent standard of living in this dear country....

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: 108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when stakeholder discussions on collective bargaining are expected to conclude; if he will reform the current law on employees' right to engage in collective bargaining in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17417/14]

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: The question refers to a programme for Government commitment which has still not been implemented after three years. Does the Minister plan to reform the law on collective bargaining before the end of 2014?