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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Absolutely not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: From our point of view, one of the main problems with the public services card is that the aim of it and the SAFE 2 registration process is not limited to verification. As I said, it is also to coerce consent to data-sharing. Perhaps the Minister is now denying it, but section 262(6) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act states:(a) Where a specified body has a transaction with a person,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is withholding payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to same declines to register for a public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8092/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 124. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 51 and 52 of 31 January 2019, the specific elements of Defence Forces height standards being reviewed; the specific timeline for the review; when it will begin; when conclusions will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8189/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 125. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces is considering reducing the height requirements for all recruits and cadets at entry; if so, when a decision on same can be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8190/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Licences Data (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of licences for gaming machines issued by the Revenue Commissioners in 2016, 2017 and 2018; and the amount of fees collected from the issue of such licences in each year. [7657/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of occasions in each of the years 2016 to 2018 when An Garda Síochána intervened to cease the unlawful operation of gaming machines. [7735/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 4 December 2018 and Parliamentary Question No. 432 of 15 January 2019, if he stands over his statement in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 4 December 2018 that all lawful gaming in amusement and gaming arcades here is confined to areas in respect of which Part III of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the services and funding provided by the Health Service Executive for persons that suffer from addiction to gambling; and the amount of funding allocated to such services in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [7817/19]

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Very good. Liam Brady played there for a while. Anyway, myself and four other fellas went to the match but we had no tickets. Obviously, we had to buy tickets outside the grounds but in England it is illegal to sell tickets outside, even at cost price and not to mention over the odds. We thought that it would be difficult but the selling goes on in the same way as it does here, even...

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am sorry but the same fella would be delighted to hear his name mentioned.

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We insisted that all of the runners would go under the van. Otherwise, there would be a smell in the van. Eugene said that he was not throwing his runners under the van because he had just bought them. We said that we would not have them in the van but he said that nobody would throw his runners out and that he was sleeping in his runners, in the van. We had to put up with the smell of...

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am just setting the scene-----

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: In the morning, the four pairs of shoes that were under the van were safe but Eugene's were gone. He lost his Asics and had to come home in his bare feet. It was a harsh lesson. He should have done what he was told in the first instance. There is a debate still going on as to who actually threw the runners out. If I told Deputies, I would have to kill them so I will not tell. Sorry,...

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Acting Chairman is being awfully strict for a Thursday evening. What is wrong with him?

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Acting Chairman should relax.

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We are all in trouble now. Miriam Lord has come in.

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The tickets were piled high for every section of every ground for the quarter finals, semi-finals and the final. It is not that I did not suspect that FIFA was corrupt before then but that was the last straw. My God. Obviously, plenty of them lost their jobs in later years when they were exposed for being crooks. As I was saying, the tickets were about £4 and we ended up paying...

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: If one goes down to Temple Bar, one can pay €8 for a pint. Would it not be an idea to put a limit on what can be charged for a pint in this town? Would that be a bad idea?

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Maybe Deputies think that is okay because that is the market at work but the guy selling the tickets also thinks that is the market at work. As I said before, I hate paying above the odds for a ticket and I generally do not do it. If I cannot get it for a fair price, I do not go in. There is something seriously wrong that we have no control in this area, in the same way as we have little...