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Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 13:In page 21, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:“Meaning of “Category A safety incident” 8. In this Part, “Category A safety incident”, in relation to the provision of a health service to a patient by a health services provider, means an unintended or unanticipated incident that occurred in respect of a patient in the...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister took issue with the fact that our definitions of the different kinds of harm have not been exhaustively tested and that his preference is for those definitions to be provided for in regulations. We say that the definitions brought forward here are reasonably broad and detailed, but not exhaustive. However, it is open to the Minister, should he wish to provide more exhaustive...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister would be disappointed if I was not giving out. Surveys consistently show that health care professionals support open disclosure after a safety incident. A survey of US and Canadian physicians revealed that disclosure attitudes were similar in both countries, with 98% agreeing that serious adverse events should be disclosed and 78% supporting the disclosure of minor adverse...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Our information contradicts the Minister's information. We have seen that methane produced per head of cattle shows that global livestock emissions in 2011 were 11% higher than estimates based on data from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Therefore, the figures the Department has been working with need to be revised. At the very least, more robust containment and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am very interested in agriculture. It is the best industry in the country. I want those involved to be more focused on the issues and challenges of climate change.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not make cheap pot shots. I will not get any headlines for this - the Minister need not worry about that – and I am not even looking for them. The Minister did not answer my question on anaerobic digestion plants. Is it possible that there are more in the Six Counties than in the Twenty-six Counties? Why is that the case? Why are we not doing more in that area? Since...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: That is not true. That is not what I said.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is misrepresenting my position.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I was referring to all dairy and beef production, not only ours.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of manure systems that are dry systems and liquid systems, respectively; the percentage of agricultural manure handled in anaerobic digesters, anaerobic lagoons and liquid or slurry systems, respectively; the nitrous oxide emissions from manure management in the past ten years for which there are figures available;...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has repeatedly told me that the agriculture sector will move towards an approach to carbon neutrality which does not compromise capacity for sustainable food production. We are still waiting for a definition of carbon neutrality, yet emissions from the agriculture sector are rising year on year, in accordance with the policy set out in the Food Wise 2025 plan. This question...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: As Deputy Daly said, our aim here is to place an obligation on health care providers to be open with patients in the aftermath of a serious incident resulting in the patient suffering serious harm. Our preference would have been to place an obligation on health care providers to always be open about any incident, no matter how minor, but in our amendments we have now restricted this to more...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 1:In page 11, line 7, to delete “5 years” and substitute “3 years”. I just make the point at the outset that it is a bit mad that the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality is sitting to deal with business at the same time as this debate is taking place. While I acknowledge that it is not the fault of the Minister of State, things should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the witnesses for attending. I admit to still having plenty to learn about all of this. I have not read the full Bill, only bits and pieces. The European Court of Justice, ECJ, rejected the EU data retention directive in April 2014. Its decision was based on a case brought by Digital Rights Ireland, which specifically questioned the constitutionality of Ireland's data retention...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: According to the ECJ, the Department was wrong in how it behaved. Is that not true? Although the witnesses mentioned Digital Rights Ireland, the impression being given is that these changes are coming about as if they have little or nothing to do with the Digital Rights Ireland judgment. I am mystified by why the Department has not said that, given the judgment, it must have been wrong....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: All right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Our data retention laws were not proper. Is that true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Let us consider the proposed arrangement. The Murray report highlights the importance of an objective standard of data security and that achieving objective standards in respect of EU law would require a robust form of monitoring and supervision of service providers by an independent authority with a clearly defined role and expressly associated powers and duties. Mr. Justice Murray...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Even if the Department does not find the Data Protection Commissioner to be ideal for the role of an independent authority, and notwithstanding what it has come up with, does it have a strong reason for not introducing an independent authority of some form in line with the Murray report's recommendation?