Results 101-120 of 7,404 for speaker:Mick Wallace

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investigations (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider suspending the work of NAMA immediately pending the final report of the Cooke commission of investigation into Project Eagle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17800/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance if there have been discussions on VAT rates payable for legal services specifically for family law; his plans to conduct a review to examine the idea of providing a VAT exemption or reduction for legal advice for family law proceedings with a view to removing some of the financial burden placed on families experiencing marital breakdown or a change in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the value of fees paid to a company (details supplied) for the national children’s hospital since 2013 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17864/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 156. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 7 February 2019, his plans to fulfil the identified assessed needs of the 64 adults with an intellectual disability in County Wexford on the waiting list for residential care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17891/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 157. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 7 February 2019, the number of the 19 adults with an intellectual disability in County Wexford on the waiting list for residential care in 2010 that were also on the waiting list for residential care in 2018 and therefore were included in the number of 64 on the waiting list for 2018. [17892/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 158. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 7 February 2019, the number of the 19 adults with an intellectual disability in County Wexford on the waiting list for residential care in 2010 that have since accessed residential care; and the number no longer on the waiting list for other reasons of those that have not accessed residential care. [17893/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Data (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults with intellectual disabilities in residential care in County Wexford. [17894/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Data (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults with an intellectual disability in County Wexford who will be placed in appropriate needs based residential care settings by the end of 2019 and 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17895/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Perhaps we should have allowed Deputy Chambers to keep talking and asking questions because he knows more about the issue than the do the rest of us. Fair play to him for the work he has done on the issue. In reply to Deputy Chambers, the Minister of State stated that he is not legally responsible for the flagrant ignoring of the law by gaming operations in places such as Westmoreland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Commissioner is directed by the Minister and the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Is the Minister of State telling me that An Garda Síochána is independent of politics in Ireland because I do not believe that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Does the Minister of State want me to go through the evidence of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: God bless us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I know Deputy Daly raised the next issue. Can the Minister of State address the fact that these private members clubs will literally be run out of business between this amendment and an eventual proper Bill? Is that not a concern? I think more than 2,000 people work in these places. What will happen to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am all for enforcing the law but I have a problem with the manner in which the Minister of State is going about this. First of all, as Deputy Chambers noted, the Gambling Control Bill should have introduced long before now. If it had been, we probably would not have this problem. However, because the Government has been lax in its approach to this area, somebody will lose out. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Will the Government actively promote the Bill brought forward by Deputies Chambers and O'Callaghan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Am I wrong in thinking that if speed was a priority, we would have progressed the Bill from Deputies Chambers and O'Callaghan long before now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: This is my last point. In February, I asked a parliamentary question about the amount of funding allocated to gambling addiction services in each of the years from 2015 to 2018. Strangely, I was told by the HSE that apportionment of funding dedicated solely to gambling addiction services cannot be extracted from overall funding, which I do not really understand. Has the Department ever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Would the Minister of State disagree with my comment that the lack of joined-up thinking in this place beggars belief and that it costs the State a lot of money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I thank Dr. Fulton for her contribution. I have just one point. I am told there are about 45,000 people suffering from gambling addiction in Ireland. Ireland ranks third in terms of gambling losses per capita, after Australia and Singapore. Significantly, Ireland is first in terms of losses per capita from online gambling. This legislation will probably expose customers to an additional...