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European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: Reforms are required in countries throughout Europe, including our own. The issue of waste needs to be tackled. A lot of things have got out of control and it is only right that we sort them out. However, that does not make the austerity package introduced by the Government right, as we are hitting the most vulnerable in society. On SNAs, I listened to the Taoiseach this morning as he...

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: It is frustrating.

Water Charges (20 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: The notion that 40% of the water supply is leaking into the ground is damning and the notion of bringing water from the River Shannon, at a cost of €450 million, only to have almost half of it leaking into the ground in Dublin and places like it, is outrageous. From building on the streets of Dublin over the years, I know that a great number of the pipes which are old and made of corroded...

Water Charges (20 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: In the current economic climate, given the effect of austerity measures on the ordinary people of this country and given that any money raised from water metering is unlikely to come back into the system and help to improve it, we should concentrate on fixing the pipes, introducing more cost-effective measures and more environmentally friendly ways of providing water supplies for households....

Septic Tank Regulation (15 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: There is no doubt that some septic tanks are not functioning properly but I had the pleasure of building a number of tanks.

Septic Tank Regulation (15 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: We built them properly according to the regulations of the time. However, when we built our first tanks there was no requirement to test the soil. The reason why so many tanks are not working is because their method of operation does not suit every land type. While the regulations now require land to be tested, until a number of years ago this was not necessary. If the tank is not working...

Septic Tank Regulation (15 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: Perhaps I am partly responsible for the high compliance rate.

Written Answers — National Monuments: National Monuments (21 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there has been any further development regarding the application for ministerial consent to carry out works at the national monument of Nos. 14-17 Moore Street since the Dáil Adjournment debate on national monuments of 23 June 2011; if he will give a date for the publication of the proposals received; and if he will...

Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: I have had more experience with banks than I wanted to have. I am still dealing with four different banks and have had positive and negative experiences with them. In my 20 years dealing with them, I never found them easy to deal with but they have moved the goalposts a good bit in the past couple of years and it is a very different world. While I admit I took risks and they took risks,...

Common Fisheries Policy Reform: Statements (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: I am not an expert on the fishing industry, even though I live beside the sea in County Wexford. However, I have seldom seen such consensus on a subject in this House as there is on the fishing industry. The Minister will have the support of everyone when he goes to Europe to try to get a fair deal. I have no doubt it will be very difficult for him. Mistakes have been made in the past....

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: Question 321: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the proposals of the Diabetes Action Group for improving child and adolescent diabetes services throughout the country; if there are plans to recognise services in the south east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21822/11]

Employment Support Services (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria by which placements offered by organisation in the national internship scheme are judged appropriate and posted to the JobBridge website; her views on introducing a clear set of rules that must be adhered to by all organisations providing internships in order for them to avail of free labour; and if she will make a...

Employment Support Services (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister or her reply. Will FÁS check to ensure job placements meet the criteria?

Employment Support Services (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: I have a concern. I saw an advertisement on the Internet for a forklift driver who must have a forklift licence. Such a person would replace someone who should have a job. Given that the State is paying all the money, the employer is getting someone to drive his forklift for nothing. Another advertisement was for someone to help a gardener weed. That helper will replace a labourer and...

Employment Support Services (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: The guidelines listed on the website state that the work environment should provide practical tasks to enable an individual to apply the particular skills he or she wishes to learn or enhance and the opportunity to obtain wider product or service knowledge in established networks for future employment. Should this not be a compulsory condition rather than a general guideline imposed on...

Employment Support Services (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: The Minister can see where I am coming from. There must be a follow-up. Unless the intern is picking up a skill, the scheme is being abused by employers to get cheap labour.

Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: I agree that the Government is correct to be critical of the Vatican but I regret the change of wording from the original text. The word "condemn" has been downgraded to "deplore". The dictionary definition of condemn is to declare to be reprehensible, wrong or evil usually after weighing evidence and without reservation, whereas deplore means to feel or express grief, to regret strongly,...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: The smoke has affected Deputy Durkan's memory.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: Hear, hear.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: I would like a few minutes to contribute. Deputy Flanagan is not here.