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

Mick Wallace: Sure, you never know. I find this a strange Bill. Members have a responsibility to introduce good legislation and we should avoid introducing legislation with little substance. I do not believe this legislation will be workable and, on that basis, I am not very fond of it. Deputy Clare Daly and I are members of the Committee on Justice and Equality. We have witnessed a few Bills...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I did not interrupt the Minister of State. He should listen.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Jesus Christ, stop.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am only quoting what somebody said at a public forum.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Consider the massaging the Government does on the numbers. The majority of the Part 5 developments were not even newly built. That is the truth. Acquisitions solve no problems. They are just eating into another aspect of the market. The next time the Minister of State gets a chance to address this, could he explain to me why State land is not used? If the local authorities are not fit...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State should not tell me that is what is being done. Fine Gael has been in government since 2011. I remember begging it not to sell Project Arrow to Cerberus at a par value of over €6 billion. NAMA was allowed to sell it for €800 million although it had a par value of over €6 billion. It was all residential property in Ireland. I begged Fine Gael and...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State and I are probably tired of listening to each other at this stage.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We would not have to go over this issue again and again if the problems were going away. Sadly, they are not. The homelessness crisis is linked to housing, Government policy, landbanking and many other issues. The Minister of State accused the Opposition of not coming up with new solutions. Has it dawned on him that perhaps we have come up with solutions and recommendations but the...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: As the Ceann Comhairle can testify, I did not interrupt the Minister of State. Deputy Clare Daly referred to people losing the roof over their head because a landlord decided to sell the property or refurbish it or facilitate a family member, all of which is legal. At the root of the problem is the fact that we do not have a sufficient quantity of State housing.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The last time I checked, approximately 9% of housing was local authority stock. The current figures indicate that local authorities built 2,022 houses and AHBs built 1,388, giving a total of 4,251. However, there are 70,000 people on the waiting list. Approximately 20 social houses Wexford were built in 2018. That does not come close to dealing with the problem. As I stated...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The cost of calling a halt is in the contract. We have not reached the point of no return. We are really only starting. The extra cost we are looking at now will be far exceeded in time if the Government continues along this road. The Government needs to stop and retender.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste is talking about learning lessons for the future, but I would like him to learn them for the present because I would argue that if the Government stops now, which it is allowed to do according to the terms of the contract, and retenders, it could save itself in the region of €500 million. The Government should opt for a remeasurable contract rather than stick with a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I would look at the performance of the legal firm because it is crucial to what we have ended up with.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Government would.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste should please check it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The cost of the children's hospital is out of control. I laid out last night what I see as being at the root of the problem. How many variations have there been since this contract was awarded? What is the value of the different variations? How many more variations might the Government be expecting? The procurement process should have delivered the correct form of contract but it did not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Land Development Agency (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisages NAMA and NTMA staff being seconded to the Land Development Agency; if he has discussed same with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, the interim CEO of the Land Development Agency and the chairman and CEO of NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7354/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that multiple NAMA transactions since 2010 may have been in breach of section 172 of the NAMA Act; if he or NAMA has had engagement with An Garda Síochána or the DPP regarding their ongoing investigation into one specific transaction concerning a section 172 breach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7355/19]

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am not arguing about the two-stage process. Whether the Ministers had opted for one-stage in total or two, if they had opted for a remeasurable contract, they would not have run into the problems they are running into now. It is February 2019. This project will take approximately four years. The Minister said he knows that going ahead is the right thing to do. None of us know that....

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: It will rob us blind with this form of an arrangement.