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Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...the Government deals with it from a legal perspective. Previously I have touched on the cable exposed by WikiLeaks from 2009, which highlighted the facts the Government is hiding. The Minister of State states foreign troops will not transit through Ireland and what is happening in Shannon with the US is an informal arrangement. I repeat: "an informal arrangement". I just hope that,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (23 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to ensure that the recent Supreme Court ruling (details supplied) that the State should take account of a person's private life in certain immigration cases will be adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22699/18]

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...its own findings. One of the vehicles for the climate change denial is the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, a right wing policy group that shapes and promotes legislation at state level across the United States. ALEC brings corporate donors together with conservative state lawmakers to push anti-regulatory legislation on a range of issues. It uses its money and influence to...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Wallace: I will be opposing this Bill. I disagree very strongly with criminalising the purchase of consensual sex. If this Bill is successful, I believe it will signify the reinvolvement of the State in the private sexual lives of adult citizens for the first time since homosexuality was decriminalised over 20 years ago. It seems that the Turn Off the Red Light campaign has turned many heads. Many...

Topical Issue Debate: Mare Nostrum Project (17 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, will no doubt agree that events on the Mediterranean are a terrible reflection on the European Union and the West in general. Aside from the destruction being caused in the countries from which people are fleeing, it is a mark of the terrible hardships they face that they are fleeing across the Mediterranean which is, by...

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: On the compulsory registration of fathers, names on birth certificates, Article 8 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that state parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognised by law without unlawful interference. The Bill is in line with the rights of the child in the...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...this year, a representative of the Government, the former Tánaiste Deputy Eamon Gilmore, lobbied on behalf of 50,000 Irish citizens living and illegally working in the USA. He argued that these immigrants should be granted legal status so that they could be allowed to participate fully in American society. I support that appeal. However, when it comes to the treatment of asylum...

Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: .... During the debate last night, the Minister for Justice and Equality, to his credit, was strong on the issue when he said:"...whatever decision is taken by Government, we cannot provide in this State for the termination of a pregnancy resulting from rape in the absence of the victim being suicidal. Neither can we provide for the termination of a pregnancy where there is a foetal...