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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gas Pipelines (31 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: This pipe is not being installed during the boom time. An engineering company is currently working on it with three different crews.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gas Pipelines (31 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: They are working on Swords Road, Malahide Road and Griffith Avenue. The specifications to which the Minister refers are fine in virgin ground but where existing services are in place, best practice demands that new infrastructure should go underneath them at a depth of 2 m. I ask the Minister to find out from Dublin City Council whether it is best practice to put the pipe at 1 m beneath...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services (31 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the outcome of the research initiated by him in relation to potential interference that may be caused by the new 4G network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4764/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services (31 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the rollout of the 4G network across the country will begin and the percentage of the population that will be provided with the service by the end of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4765/13]

An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: I too would like to express my sympathy to the family of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe. We all know being a member of the police force is not an easy job at a very difficult time for all of us. We have been told that crime figures have been very low in some of the areas where closures will take place. However, perhaps we should take into account the fact that the reason crime rates were...

Other Questions: Merger of Cultural Institutions (30 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: I am sure the Minister is well aware of the fact there has been near-universal rejection of this proposal by stakeholders in both institutions. Surely the views of those working in this area should be taken into account. Professor Diarmaid Ferriter and Dr. Pat Wallace have said it is a mistake, and Dr. John O'Mahony, the chairman of the board of the National Museum, has called it cultural...

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation (30 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: Come on lads, try to pull together.

Other Questions: Merger of Cultural Institutions (30 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reasons for his decision to remove the autonomy and independence from the boards of the National Library and the National Museum by merging them into an advisory council operating within his Department; if the savings he has outlined will be achieved in view of the fact that the members of both boards are now working pro bono; and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (30 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has received the environmental impact assessment of numbers 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin; the result of this assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4511/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (29 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: Ladies first.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (29 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: The Minister's point is that the long-term unemployed are more deserving of assistance in some form. For those who wish to avail of the scheme will she consider relaxing the rule whereby a person must be unemployed for a period of three months before availing of the scheme? Is it true that lone parents and people with disabilities are not eligible to avail of the scheme? The final report...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (29 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to develop a Scandinavian model of childcare here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4041/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that she reduced the electricity/gas allowance element of the household benefits package at a time of rising heating costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4042/13]

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: What about nurses and other people on low wages, all of which is spent on meeting their cost of living? Reducing the wages of nurses by 20% is not economically sound.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the publication date for the Action Plan for Jobs 2013; if all actions set out in the Action Plan for Jobs 2012 will be achieved before work on the 2013 plan commences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3307/13]

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: The Minister outlined many of the initiatives designed to create a better climate, yet the Nevin Institute estimated that the budget for 2013 will cost between 25,000 and 35,000 jobs, reduce GDP by 2.1% and lower private consumption. Its report stated:Budget 2013 resulted in continued cuts in the public capital programme. This is likely to result in job losses in the short term, and in the...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: There is talk of downsizing the public sector by a further 6% through renegotiating the Croke Park agreement. Through my business I have a number of units in the city centre. Every time a public sector job goes, there is less money in the pockets of people passing the doors of retail units. The biggest problem today in the retail sector is a lack of sufficient money in the pockets of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of the distinct actions contained in the Action Plan for Jobs 2012 that have been delivered to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3306/13]

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: With the agreement of the House, I will share my time with Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Mick Wallace: It is interesting to hear the different takes on what is happening. It is not surprising that we see things differently. The world would be a boring place if we all thought the same. The Greeks must be confused, however, as to who their friends are. Before last year's election in Greece, the unelected President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, declared that Greece...