Results 121-140 of 7,404 for speaker:Mick Wallace

General Practitioner Contractual Reform: Statements (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The current GP contract is 47 years old. There have been no major structural changes to it in that time, bar a little tinkering. General practice in Ireland receives 3% of the overall health budget and yet general practice in most developed countries receives 10%. This disparity needs to be addressed in Ireland. Research has repeatedly shown that if one spends €1 on investment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I know the Tánaiste could not make the meeting in question. I wonder how he feels about the position taken by France. France has been supporting General Haftar. French weapons helped him take over Benghazi in 2017. The Tánaiste stated that the people of Libya have suffered terribly. That is the case but he should add that this suffering is directly linked to the NATO bombing of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the most recent discussions at the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 8 April 2019 on recent developments in Libya; the stance taken by representatives of Ireland at those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17603/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his decision to support a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered with regard to the interim presidency of Venezuela; if he will consider working for a peaceful solution to the developments in Venezuela; if he will raise a case for this approach at the next Foreign Affairs Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for six, nine, 12, 18 and more than 18 months, respectively, for speech and language therapy by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17210/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Availability (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 281. To ask the Minister for Health if the adult respite service for persons with intellectual disability at a centre (details supplied) in County Wexford will be made available for families outside the county; if so, the plans the HSE has to ensure that families in the county do not receive a decreased service due to additional demand created by opening the service up to persons outside the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the wait times for a MRI scan in Wexford General Hospital; and the number of MRI scans carried out on average in the hospital per week. [17318/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for shoulder arthroscopy operations in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by county in tabular form. [17347/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Data (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 339. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE maintains separate waiting lists for paediatric occupational therapy for primary care and for disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17513/19]

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: They have changed the measurement.

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I will give the Minister of State the evidence of that.

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: That is a tricky question. I was pretty good at it until the banking crisis burst the living daylights out of me.

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I will not criticise the provision of aid, as I have seen genuinely good efforts being made to make things better on the ground, but I will be critical in dealing with the bigger picture. I started to read Jason Hickel’s book, The Divide, for the second time last weekend. It is such an amazing read. Everybody should read it if he or she wants to know how this world is operating. I...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has had consultation with a person (details supplied) following recognition by the President of the United States of America of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; if so, the details of the interactions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16896/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Middle East Issues (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 35. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights by the President of the United States of America may affect the UN mission in the Golan Heights and involvement by the Defence Forces in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16895/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I do not accept that PwC is in a position to say that this should not be revisited, and I do not see the evidence for that in its report. It has not given us the evidence and has not done the necessary work. It was not the correct organisation to review this. It addressed the peer review issue by saying: "An external perspective, frequently in the form of a peer review, is often needed to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste says the PwC report gives us a clear explanation of what happened here. I do not agree. The children's hospital problems are about construction contracts, cost management, cost measurement and general construction. I am wondering why the Government gave a crowd of accountants, who know nothing about construction, the job of reviewing it. Why did it not engage a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste is calling this a special project but it is not actually a very special project. It is a construction project; it is not unique. Hospitals get built every year across Europe. It does not justify an extra €450 million. The report states that the board should be less reliant on external advisers. If the Government is going to hire consultants and pay them, maybe it...

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: We will also be supporting the Sinn Féin Bill. This is a bit mad. The abuse of language in making arguments about this issue is a somewhat disheartening. We know there is no concrete and clear commitment to neutrality in the Constitution. This has been taken advantage of by too many for too long. Our facilitation of the US military's use of Shannon Airport for the Iraq War in 2003...

EU Regulations: Referral to Joint Committee (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: There is a Big Brother aspect to this operation and there does not seem to have been much debate about fundamental rights, proportionality or the safeguarding of data. I have a number of questions for the Minister of State. I do not know if I will get answers to them today, but perhaps I will get them at another time. In April 2018 the European Commission's data protection working...