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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Security Fund: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said he does not want to encroach on the foreign policy of other countries, although it appears to me that this fund will bring them closer together. If the Minister does not want to talk about them, why not talk about our own foreign policy? Has there been any discussion of working towards greater security in Europe in general, including in Ireland? Has the Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I am sorry. I had to go the Chamber for a question. I am really sorry about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I am sorry that I missed part of the meeting. I will read the contributions in the Official Report. I thank the witnesses. Ms Roche spoke about a wasted opportunity if we do not do something and put something back in. The contributions have highlighted that it would have been a terrible wasted opportunity if we did not have pre-legislative scrutiny, allowed the Bill to proceed and ended...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: We will take Deputy O'Callaghan aside and have a chat with him.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the independence of her Department's data protection officer is sufficiently respected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38846/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: Two weeks ago, Mr. Niall Cussen, from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, said at the Dublin economics workshop that the State will not be building social housing at scale because it has failed in the past. The Minister has not said that in the House. I do not know what people are saying to each other, but there is a serious lack of honesty in how this crisis is being...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Response Times (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: While the new cath lab that is to be built in Waterford is welcome, it will not make any difference in terms of helping emergency cardiac patients outside Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The meeting with the Minister last week was a decent one. He explained to us that he has been trying to get extra hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. or 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. That would help but it still leaves...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Response Times (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: It is an issue that is a real worry for the people where I come from in the south of Wexford because we are in the absolute worst position of all when it comes to the problems around this issue. A few months ago, I submitted a number of questions to the Department of Health on ambulance response times between various hospitals in the south east and St. James's Hospital in Dublin and Cork...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I do not know who give the Taoiseach his figures. I am not saying it is his fault but there is so much spin in there that it is not funny. The housing supply co-ordination task force, which checks out completions in the four Dublin local authorities for ten units or more, gave a total number of 1,095 for the first two quarters of 2017. For the first two quarters of 2018 the number is 397....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Government is buying and acquiring houses and even over half of the Part V's were not built. They were purchased. The Government is massaging the figures no end. When the Government buys something that does nothing for the housing supply. Even if it is used for HAP, the Government is eating into the private sector of it. I ask the Taoiseach please to listen. It is hard for him to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Government needs to change tack.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: It looks like spin rather than substance remains the order of the day when it comes to the Government's housing policy. I have built plenty of apartments and houses and it does not take seven and a half years to build them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I have been here since 2011 and things have got worse since then. The one consistency I have seen in the Government's policy in all that time is that it is wedded to the philosophy that the markets will fix it. I have news for the Taoiseach: the markets will not fix it. They do not want to fix it, they actually like it the way it is. The Government's latest inspiration is the Land...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Agencies (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: 91. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of Pobal's proposed review into its charity status; if the review will be conducted in-house; the timeline for completion of the review; if his Department or the Attorney General has an input; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38582/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: 101. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of his Department's engagement with the Charities Regulator with regard to his review of State agencies that also hold charitable status; if the Attorney General has had an input into this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38583/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Data Protection Regulation Implementation (20 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: 10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the fact that no data protection impact assessment or policy was prepared prior to the unveiling of a new information technology system by Tusla, the national child care information system; her further views on whether Tusla is in breach of statutory data protection requirements; if she has communicated these views to Tusla;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Data Protection Regulation Implementation (20 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: Tusla recently launched its new national child care information system. This new centralised system may well improve quality and efficiency through improved sharing of information, but Tusla has admitted that it did not complete a privacy impact assessment prior to the launch. When asked about this, Tusla responded on one of its social media platforms that a data protection policy would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Data Protection Regulation Implementation (20 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I realise that the project was in the making before the GDPR came into being, but is Tusla's privacy impact assessment now a box-ticking exercise? Rape Crisis Network Ireland, RCNI, immediately expressed concern at Tusla's statement about the absence of a PIA. The GDPR, and specifically section 76 of the Data Protection Act 2018, refer to data protection by design and by default. Section...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Data Protection Regulation Implementation (20 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: It is disingenuous to suggest that I would recommend putting children at risk in any form. Has Tusla learnt anything from the lessons of the HIQA probe that the Minister ordered on its disastrous handling of the allegations made against Sergeant Maurice McCabe? With regard to the new IT system, Tusla's head of project management stated publicly that the agency intends to keep all the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Functions (20 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: 29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of her Department's planned examination of its relationship with Pobal with a view to forming a closer statutory relationship; if the terms of reference for this examination have been agreed upon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38007/18]