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Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the Minister’s comments. I would like a period of three or five years to be enshrined in the Bill. I accept that the Minister seems to be moving in the right direction. At the same time, experience has taught us to be wary. I had a discussion today with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, about the fact that every single one of the many buses...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 5:In page 11, after line 33, to insert the following:“8. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report examining increasing the benefit in kind from 1 year to 5 years, to those who purchase electric cars through work.”. Good evening, Minister.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Not too bad. A nice win for Spurs last night. I hope the Minister read that book I gave him. How much of it has he read?

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Ceann Comhairle is spoiling the party. He is way too serious for this job. Although the Minister introduced a one-year benefit-in-kind provision in respect of electric cars, which is estimated to cost the Exchequer approximately €500,000, we should be doing more. This is not just a point for the Department of Finance, but any Department. This morning, I was arguing with the...

Other Questions: Ports Facilities (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: It has been over four years since the Indecon review into Rosslare harbour was presented to the Minister's Department but it has only recently become available for public viewing, although it is mostly redacted. Nothing has changed during those four years in terms of how Rosslare Europort operates nor how the Department has approached its ownership and management. The key recommendation of...

Other Questions: Ports Facilities (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: In spite of the Government, not because of it.

Other Questions: Public Transport Initiatives (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the BusConnects programme will provide its first low emission public bus; the fuel source of these vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49352/17]

Other Questions: Public Transport Initiatives (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I recently asked about the make-up of the bus fleet and what powers its engines. I got a reply saying the Minister was strongly committed to facilitating the uptake of low emission technologies in the public transport sector, that his Department has established a green public transport fund to support the uptake of low carbon technologies within the public transport sector and that the...

Other Questions: Public Transport Initiatives (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Last week, the 2018 Climate Change Performance Index was published at the UN climate talks in Bonn. It contained the not-so-surprising claim that Ireland is now the single worst performer on climate change action in Europe. The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is a central holder of responsibility for this shameful accolade. What have we been doing with the bus fleet all these...

Other Questions: Public Transport Initiatives (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico have announced that they will ban diesel vehicles in their cities by 2025. We will fall even further behind those cities. Even if we convert to electric vehicles and trains, if the electricity that powers them is dirty and comes from peat, oil, coal and gas as it does at present, we will still have a problem. The burning of coal at Moneypoint will still be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made to implement the recommendations of a review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49353/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the European Commission proposal to extend the ban on neonicotinoid pesticides to non flowering crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49571/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Stocks (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options Inland Fisheries Ireland has considered to assist returning salmon negotiate both a privately owned tailrace and a weir on the River Slaney at Clohamon, Bunclody, County Wexford; when Inland Fisheries Ireland will take action to alleviate passage for salmon at these points; and if he will make a statement...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: On the second day of the O'Higgins commission investigation, the Garda Commissioner's legal team introduced the notion that Maurice McCabe had a grudge. Chief Superintendent Colm Rooney said that Maurice was angry and vicious and he wanted the Director of Public Prosecutions to overturn the directions on the Ms D file, not realising that Maurice had already seen them and they favoured him so...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Can the Minister confirm that a meeting did take place, if she does not know who attended it? Does she know if a meeting took place that weekend in preparation for the Monday when the Chief State Solicitor's office produced a five-page document which outlined the allegations against Maurice McCabe? When Maurice's legal team saw this he was able to contradict it with a transcript and a tape...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am not questioning the terms of reference. I know we met about them and, as the Minister knows, we insisted on communications with the Department and the Minister being included in them. We are not querying that. I am within my rights to ask the Minister the simple question and she has asked how could she possibly know about the meeting. I am asking did she know whether a meeting took...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 8 November 2017, if the environmental impact assessment carried out prior to his approval in July 2017 for offshore drilling at the Druid Drombeg exploration field addressed the potential impact that the combustion of the fossil fuels stored at the site could have on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which her Department arrived at the decision to give a group (details supplied) the sole power to administer the hunter competence assessment programme; and if she has given consideration to tendering the administration of the contract at stages in view of the fact that the HCAP certification will be mandatory from...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Licences (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to protect and promote small coastal fishing communities, in particular those fishermen who did not avail of the salmon hardship scheme in 2007 and instead waited for salmon stocks to recover so that they could return to fishing; if he has given consideration to subsidies for polyvalent licences for these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a bibliography of all sources used to arrive at the conclusion that homeless figures here are low by international standards as per his recent public statement. [48827/17]