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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (28 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering reforms to the fair deal scheme which would ring fence the funds raised by the sale of homes after paying contributions to the scheme after a certain period of years and which would help older persons that sell their homes to avoid handing over the entire sum of the proceeds of the sale of their home to cover their nursing home costs....

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: If we were to accept the amendment, it would be to ignore the voice of the Irish people who have already voted otherwise. They voted overwhelmingly that a woman has a right to have an abortion up to 12 weeks without reason and after that for specific reasons. The State will not save lives by refusing to fund healthcare for women in Ireland.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will be brief. Repetition could become a problem as we discuss these matters. Amendment No. 1 seeks to make clear that the Bill is primarily about access to healthcare, not criminalisation. Earlier today, Alison Spillane of the Irish Family Planning Association stated that parliamentarians must take the criminal law out of medical consulting rooms and replace it with a provision...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the 40-plus agencies that are either fully or partially exempt from freedom of information requests; his further views on whether these exemptions are in the public interest with regard to accountability and transparency; if he will consider conducting a review of the agencies that benefit from such exemptions; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied with the functioning of the freedom of information system in place under the Freedom of Information Act 2014; if he will consider amending section 44 of the Act to give himself the power to instruct the Information Commissioner to carry out a review of the operations of the Act; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the details surrounding a loan sale (details supplied) which was sold off market and for less than 10% of its original value; if he is satisfied that NAMA is not in breach of section 2(iv) of the NAMA Act 2009, which requires it to protect the interests of the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48606/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: I raised the issue of the Project Nantes loan sale in this House in May 2017 with the then Minister, Deputy Noonan. He told me that NAMA could not reveal any information on this loan sale under sections 99 and 202 of the NAMA Act. The current Minister refused to answer twice, on the same grounds, but sections 99 and 202 do not apply to the Houses of the Oireachtas, yet the Minister has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: I have great respect for the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General, as I do for the Minister, but I still believe the Minister should get involved. Avestus took over Quinlan Private in 2010. The three principal directors, Olan Cremin, Thomas Dowd and Peter Donnelly, had borrowed heavily during the boom, mainly from Anglo Irish Bank, and owed €489 million when the crash came....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: There is no doubt that the Comptroller and Auditor General is a serious operator and he is a credit to his office, but he has found it very difficult to get information out of NAMA. It was very obvious during the protracted Project Eagle case that NAMA was very reluctant to co-operate with the Comptroller and Auditor General in a fair manner. NAMA is deliberately downplaying the requirement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the latest progress report by the Comptroller and Auditor General into the National Asset Management Agency; his views on the findings regarding section 172 declarations, particularly that NAMA case managers do not carry out verification processes regarding these; his further views on whether this may have had knock-on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the University Hospital Waterford second cath laboratory project (details supplied). [48689/18]

Older People: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has confirmed that the HSE will make 550 additional home care packages available over the winter. Obviously, this is welcome, but it is not nearly enough. There are more than 6,200 older people waiting for home care packages nationally. The 550 additional packages would not even clear the 578 waiting in Wexford alone. The Fine Gael-Labour Party Government - it is interesting...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Miscarriages of Justice (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: The defence team could not cross-examine witness M. If that happened down here, we would be shouting from the rooftops about it. PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll was murdered and we entirely condemn those who did it, but it is no justice for that family that the wrong people could be in jail for it. It was highlighted at the Commons committee that Amnesty International has not got involved in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Miscarriages of Justice (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: Brendan McConville and John Paul Wooton were convicted of a murder under the controversial joint enterprise doctrine, which holds that a person who assists or encourages a crime can be held just as legally responsible as the perpetrator of the crime. The lack of evidence in this case is frightening. Central to the prosecution case was the evidence of a man identified only as witness M, who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach can talk about legislation until the cows come home, but until the Government starts engaging in enforcement, it is a waste of time. The Taoiseach made an unfair comment that I would make a judgment before I actually read the report. No, I did not, and I would not accuse him of it. What I will ask the Taoiseach to do is that I will give him the judge's statement on the day...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: Before the Taoiseach became leader of the country, he spoke a lot about addressing white collar crime but we have not seen much progress on that yet. We recently unearthed another example of NAMA breaking its own rules when, almost like magic, it sold loans belonging to Avestus, with €352 million owed on them, back to their original owners through a shell company in Luxembourg that was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: They also are dying there.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: We applauded the work of the Naval Service in the early years when it was actually saving thousands of lives. It was a wonderful achievement. Now its job is to make sure refugees do not reach Europe and the lawless Libyan coast guard intercepts them before they drown because if they set foot on one of our boats, under humanitarian law, we will be obliged to bring them to Italy. As we know,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State referred to a safe place. Operation Sophia is pulling people back to a place of violence and human rights violations. Only yesterday, authorities used rubber bullets and tear gas to force more than 90 refugees to disembark a cargo ship docked in Misrata. The stand off lasted ten days. The refugees, including children, said that they would rather die than return to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 74. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons rescued and brought to the EU by Naval Service vessels to date in 2018 as part of Operation Sophia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48214/18]