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Other Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Although finance for builders is a good idea, is it correct that approximately 8% is being proposed? Will NAMA have any involvement? As Members know, none of the houses in which NAMA has had an involvement will be sold at an affordable price. It is considering a minimum of approximately €350,000, which is not an affordable price for most people in Ireland who need a house and cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I was sorry to hear on the radio this morning about the garda being shot. It is horrific for him and everyone involved with him. Believe it or not, I know a lot of gardaí and I understand how they feel about each other. I extend my condolences to them. I, too, will be brief. We asked a lot of questions at the previous meeting. As Deputy Clare Daly outlined, we were not very happy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Does Mr. Twomey accept that if as many mistakes in respect of poor management had occurred in any area of the private sector, people would be held to account and would lose their jobs? Can he think of any area in the private sector in which, given the nature of everything that has gone on, people would not be held to account and heads would not roll? Is there any area in the private sector...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Can Mr. Twomey see the problem that the public has whereby the perception is that management was a disaster and that the former Commissioner walked off with €300,000 plus a pension of approximately €90,000 a year? Members of the public have a problem getting their heads around that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Only this week we met a member of An Garda Síochána who has just submitted a protected disclosure. He is out of work sick for a while due to stress at work. He has given us incredibly detailed information about things that have been happening, right up until recently. To be honest, we found it hard to believe that the things he told us about could still be happening, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I will conclude with a couple of questions for Mr. Nugent. When the Department of Justice and Equality officials were before the committee this week, I raised some questions with them. Mr. Nugent compiled a report on the use of a Gmail account by the former Garda Commissioner. Has Mr. Nugent given that report to the Department of Justice and Equality?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Does Mr. Nugent understand that the amount of things that are "forgotten" or are responded to with "not sure" and "do not know" is frightening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: If I were a foreman on a building site and someone asked me 12 months later what size steel I put in a beam over an entrance, I would remember the size of it. For the life of me it is mind-boggling how Mr. Nugent cannot remember if he gave that report to the Department of Justice and Equality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: My final question is to all the individuals across from me. Would any of them have received emails from the former Garda Commissioner's Gmail account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Would Mr. Nugent have received correspondence from the Gmail account of an official nature?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: That would be Garda business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: And the rest of the gentlemen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the witnesses for answering my questions.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies created to date in 2017 throughout the country; the number of HAP tenancies created to date in 2017 in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52269/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties acquired by the 31 local authorities to date in 2017; the number that are vacant at present; the average vacancy time for local authority acquisitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52272/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the local authority in County Wexford will only directly build three social houses in 2017; if he is satisfied with the rate of building of social housing by all 31 local authorities, if his Department will consider releasing extra funding to the local authorities specifically for the direct building of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the HAP scheme in its current form; if so, the details of the analysis; if he is satisfied the HAP scheme is helping to solve the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52270/17]

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: If the Taoiseach is so hawkish and so confident that this is good for us, I do not understand why he is not prepared to allow for a more public debate on it outside the House. Did the Lisbon and Nice treaties teach the State about allowing people to think too much about these issues? For a number of years, we have witnessed the increased militarisation of Europe. The Taoiseach can say that...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Sending them back to Libya is wrong.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Government is still not paying them.