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Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: This question relates to the State agency and registered charity, Pobal, which administers funds on behalf of the State. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has the majority of contracts with Pobal. Can the Minister outline the services Pobal provides on behalf of her Department, the fees charged by Pobal and, most important, if the contract with Pobal was awarded following a...

Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister. An internal audit of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs completed in March 2014 examined the role played by Pobal and found some serious problems. I acknowledge the Minister was not in office at the time but I have to hand a copy of the audit report and it is pretty worrying. It states those involved understood that the Department employed Pobal without a...

Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: Did the Department of Children and Youth Affairs get legal advice on Pobal being outside of the rules of the EU procurement directives? If so, when was the legal advice given? Will she publish it?

Other Questions: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said it is independent. We have not seen the legal advice on that. Does the Minister not think that not seeking tenders and dealing with one contractor is bad business? In 2016, €204 million was disbursed via Pobal on behalf of the Minister's Department. Even though Pobal is a State agency, it does not do this work for free and charges fees. It was paid €13.5...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Rights (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on a report (details supplied); if she is satisfied that the measures she has taken to address the problems facing children here are working; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9000/18]

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I had the pleasure of reading the plan over the weekend. It was tough going and there was a lot of repetition in it. I would probably have been better off reading some real fiction. The idea of long-term planning makes sense as we are all too aware that just about every Government in the history of the State has worked from election to election, with the vested interests of politicians in...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

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

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will take the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's point on board. I thank him for his tolerance. I appreciate it. Deputy Flanagan is the Minister for Justice and Equality now. He needs to be more proactive if we are to get a better functioning Garda Síochána. The Minister for Justice and Equality can hold An Garda Síochána to account. Things are not being done particularly...

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: Is the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, a hands-off Minister? Is he prepared to just let it all go on as normal because I was under the impression that the new Taoiseach has an appetite for doing things differently and I have no reason to believe otherwise?

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: How much time am I allowed?

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: We will try to get out of here before nightfall.

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I respect his ruling 100%. While we may also have been disappointed, we knew that Deputy Sherlock had every right to speak for as long as he chose to and we did not complain. Deputy Clare Daly and I also support being allowed to appoint a Commissioner over 60 years. It would be terrible if people over 60 years would be disqualified. Considering the...

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I am just finishing. This tough approach is so laughable that just six months ago, Burger King is on record complaining to An Bord Pleanála that it was unfair it was not allowed to extend their opening hours in Killarney when McSorley’s nightclub trades until 4 am. I do not believe for a second that Killarney is the only place that has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank everybody for their contribution and the meeting has been very educational. I have much to learn but I find it very interesting. I have spent much time before the courts in the past ten or 15 years. I know many people in every county in Ireland and because of my background an incredible number of people have contacted me about issues relating to today's discussion. I am conscious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: What planet are we living on? Why is the Government so afraid of moving on and dealing with this in a healthy manner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: I had better not add my personal comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Government position has been to allow financial institutions do as they wish right across the board in dealing with the people in trouble with them. This concerns the manner in which repossessions are dealt with, the tracker mortgages issue and people going out of business. A poor attempt was made to work things through and it just does not make sense. A bank sold apartments of mine for...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Contracts Data (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 61. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of contracts Pobal holds with Government Departments; the fees Pobal has received for these contracts for the most recently published year; if the contracts Pobal holds with Government Departments were awarded via a tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8732/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Contracts Data (21 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 62. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contract his Department has in place with Pobal; the services Pobal provides on behalf of his Department; if the contract with Pobal was awarded following a tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8731/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (20 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she has taken to address the above average unemployment levels which persist in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8444/18]