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Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: I declare that I have an interest in the restaurant industry. The Government does not understand how VAT affects the food and restaurant industry. Only the big restaurants will benefit from this. One could not defend the hotels given the prices they have charged for hotel rooms in Dublin for some time. However, I know many restaurants that will struggle to survive after this change. I...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: This is the eighth budget since I became a Member. I suppose they have one thing in common in that they were very similar and none of them was inspiring. Little has changed in how budgets have been done over those eight years that I can remember. I heard some people saying today that this was an election budget. I do not think so. After listening to Fianna Fáil kissing Paschal's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: 328. To ask the Minister for Health the sale prices and dates of sale for each lot that comprised the former St. Senan's Hospital and associated lands in Enniscorthy; if the moneys achieved by the sales were ring-fenced for mental health services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41046/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: 448. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Transport Infrastructure Ireland service station at the M11 site outside Gorey will open; the cost of building and maintaining the station to date by category and year; and the estimated lost revenue from the service station since work finished in 2015.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41047/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (4 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: On the issue of human rights, the Minister is probably aware that the United Nations Human Rights Council mandated an examination of the human rights situation in Yemen. It is very damning. It said that more non-military than military targets have been struck in Yemen. Those responsible are targeting food production, agriculture and animals. The latest tactic of the coalition of Saudi...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (4 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: 30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had discussions with his UK, French, German or US counterparts on the subject of the war in Yemen; his views on the continued sale of arms by these countries to the participants in this war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40306/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the discussion at the recent UN Human Rights Council of the report of the findings of the group of eminent experts on Yemen; if action has been agreed among the members of the council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40307/18]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: The lack of honesty in the Government's approach and its failure to acknowledge the fact they have failed miserably to deal with the housing crisis is shocking. I heard Audrey Carville pin down the Minister to eventually putting a figure on the number of newly built local authority social housing in 2018 and he put it at 4,000. I advice him that the chances of that happening are less than...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: 48. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it is the case that Defence Forces personnel involved in aid to civil power duties at Shannon Airport in 2018 were not protecting US military aircraft involved in war or military activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39997/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: This is not a new question, but there are always new circumstances. The world insists on throwing up new facts to support the case that what we are allowing to happen at Shannon is unethical, criminal and morally indefensible. For more than 15 years we have allowed our airspace and airports to be used to fuel the destruction of any country that gets in the way of the hegemony of the United...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has spoken about the past 50 years, but he knows well that the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in 2001 was a game-changer in terms of how Shannon Airport is used. The American military has been using Shannon to funnel death and destruction around the world. What it is doing in Yemen today has to be the most inhuman and disgusting episode yet. What is happening to that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: While I understand that four Departments are involved, the Minister of State's Department is one of them. Bad things are happening in Shannon, and the Minister of State is overseeing it. Not only are the media not telling the truth about what is going on in Shannon, but the UN itself is complicit. Two years ago, the UN told us that almost 10,000 people had been killed in Yemen. The most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: I do not have the jitters but I am hoping to give them to the Minister. I thank the witnesses for their presentations which were very good. It is to be hoped that if we can get them a place in our report, there will be more thought around many of these issues. Things get said and are just left there with not enough done. Most of the good points that the witnesses are making will remain...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: 54. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the activities of the Defence Forces in the Golan Heights UNDOF mission, in particular their transition back to the Syrian side of the area relevant to the mission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39998/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: 76. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has had discussions with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government with regard to amending the Arts Act 2003 in order to require each local authority to have a ring-fenced arts budget as recommended by arts advocacy organisations such as an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...

Engagement with Investment Funds: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: They have made a fortune at the expense of the Irish people. They bought loans from NAMA for peanuts, paid a bribe to get Project Eagle in the North and we are fine with that. God help us. What will the history books tell us? I hope they detail statements the Government made in this House in its efforts to defend what has taken place. I remember begging Fine Gael and the Labour Party...

Engagement with Investment Funds: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I find it hard to listen to the Minister of State talking about insolvency legislation and what it protects and does not. It is absolutely useless because the Government allowed a bank veto. It was a waste of time. Deputy McGuinness pointed out that there were 125 meetings with vulture funds between 2013 and 2016 but that they would not meet the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public...

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: We have no say in military matters. That is a joke. A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, you should pick the Minister up on that.

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is only going along for the sandwiches. He will have no say.

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: That is a joke. How can the Minister say that with a straight face?