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Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (12 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: There has been no public debate.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Retirements (12 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 54. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the fact that 335 members of the Defence Forces have left voluntarily to date in 2017; if he has satisfied himself that the pay and conditions of the Defence Forces is acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52966/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (12 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 78. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the considerations and planning his Department has taken with regard to Ireland's imminent joining of PESCO; if the defence budget for 2018, 2019 and 2020 will now increase year on year due to the commitments required of PESCO membership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52965/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (12 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to fuel allowance. [52913/17]

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Ireland made a commitment at the Paris climate change conference in November 2015 to provide at least €175 million in public funding in support of climate action in developing countries between 2016 and 2020. Since then, our State, acting in its function as a tax haven, has robbed multiples of this amount from the developing countries. Even with conservative estimates of the tax...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: How much money is in it? The Government is still not building houses. Only three local authority houses will have been built in Wexford this year.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: There are over 3,000 on the list.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am not interrupting the Minister of State, he is the one interrupting me. I did not interrupt him when he was talking-----

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: -----although I might not have agreed with what he was saying.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State would probably like me to move on to the issue of agriculture. I will. The agriculture sector is stuck with the same profit-before-people logic. The lies and spin surrounding the discussion of agriculture's emissions problem are becoming farcical. On 8 November, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine told me I was wrong in my view that emissions from...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Is the Minister of State going to keep interrupting me?

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: A recent study from the European Parliament examined average agricultural greenhouse gas production in the EU between 2012 and 2014. The data collected reflect how much agricultural output, valued in euro, is generated for every tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted. The best-performing country in the European Union, Italy, achieved some €1,700 of agricultural output per tonne...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: We are diving straight into this madness when we have almost zero detail, and nothing official in writing, about what this could mean for Ireland's neutrality. Instead of facts, the briefing document contains vague threats about us playing ball with the EU or else we cannot protect our interests within the Union. This vague language of ultimatum is unhelpful when discussing Ireland taking...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: It is because we like peace not war.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I dealt with that.

Other Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: There is potential for Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, to be a positive development. I do not, however, see any rationale for NAMA's involvement in HBFI other than in relation to how money might be provided off the books. On several occasions in this House I have heard Members speak about availing of the expertise available in NAMA on housing. It is well known that it does not have...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The LIHAF is not helping.

Other Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: What did I do to deserve that?

Other Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Leas-Ceann Comhairle is making it up as he goes along.

Other Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the announcement by the Minister for Finance of the creation of Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, if his Department has engaged with the Department of Finance regarding HBFI; the role he envisages his Department playing with regard to HBFI; if he has satisfied himself that HBFI will bring the required funding...