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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...provide insight into whether discussions with the European Commission are taking place? The Minister did not answer my question as to how someone like Mr. Tim Bouchier-Hayes, who made such a dog's dinner of the children's hospital when on the board and working with the advisers, McCann FitzGerald, gets another job from the State?

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...upon as I grew. The story is a lie. I was shocked to discover in 2013 that my Parents always knew it to be a lie. My mother Emily did die in a flat, but aged 48, lonely and alone, apart from her pet dog, a poodle, in Weston Super Mare, UK, in August 1976. My second Presbyterian baptism was designed to erase the fact that my mother, Emily Sheppy, resided in the Bethany Home and was not...

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

Mick Wallace: ...that it is illegal to sell drugs in this town and yet every Tom, Dick and Harry can get them. It is the easiest thing in the world to get them even though it is illegal. I know a young fella who was sick as a dog last weekend. He bought hash and it was badly contaminated by some other substance and it almost poisoned him. We should regulate the drugs industry. We should legalise and...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (16 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...the State should be taking. It is important that we get the selection of judges right. If we select them, we must trust them to do their work as they see fit, otherwise it will be a bit of a dog's dinner. We are told that this is about sending a message but that is the legislative equivalent of liking something on Facebook. It is an empty gesture. I find this matter scandalous. If...

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: ..., call an election and let the Irish people decide where we will go from here. God knows what the mix will be afterwards but the Taoiseach should give people a chance to decide. This has been a dog's dinner of a place since 2016. The confidence and supply arrangement is nonsense, rubbish. Fine Gael could even form a proper coalition with Fianna Fáil or Sinn Féin afterwards...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Response Times (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...completed within 90 minutes. In the same three-year period, from the time the ambulance was called, just two patients made it from University Hospital Waterford to Cork in under 90 minutes. The dogs in the street in the south east know this. It is common sense. The Department, the HSE and Dr. Herity all have access to the national ambulance service response times. They must have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Mick Wallace: The subcontractors are the ones who are suffering the most for KPMG making a dog's dinner of its assessment of Carillion. The subcontractors cannot afford to go toe to toe in the High Court with KPMG. Even though the State might not have a great case, do the witnesses agree the State should consider taking a case on behalf of the subcontractors in the interests of justice?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Breeding Industry (14 Jun 2018)

Mick Wallace: 32. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is satisfied with the increases in the number of licences issued for dog breeding establishments in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25844/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (14 Jun 2018)

Mick Wallace: 41. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is satisfied there is consistent enforcement of all provisions of the Control of Dogs Acts 1986 to 1992 across all jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25843/18]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: On the last point, the Attorney General called the Bill a dog's dinner but I do not think he even read the contents of the debate in the Select Committee on Justice and Equality. We would argue that we got a dog's dinner, that we tried to fix it and that it was not easy.

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Conflict (17 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...controlling Syria. It would be mad to have allowed that. It is unfortunate that that means war. What is the United Nations doing about it? If the United States got Saudi Arabia to call off its dogs of war - the so-called rebels or opposition, who the Syrians call terrorists, being made up primarily of Saudi Arabian and Chechnyan nationals - the Russians and the Iranians would pull...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...publicly about his opinions on policy decisions in respect of how judges are appointed. He is not an elected member of Government but, rather, a legal adviser to same. If the Bill has ended up a "dog's dinner", it has more to do with the fact that the Bill presented by the Government was a mishmash between the original Private Members' Bill of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...of the greyhounds and there are live hares used at these events. Animal welfare sanctuary volunteers and managers repeatedly state the legislation has simply not been acted upon. As to the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010, the ISPCA has stated that there is a lack of enforcement, guidelines are not being met and there is widespread non-compliance. Animal shelters throughout the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (26 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 1649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of dog wardens operating throughout the 31 local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35725/17]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: .... It could be a very important one, if things were done right. Clearly, the Minister is eager to avoid trips and falls between now and 2 June. I have a lot of respect for him, but he has made a dog's dinner of dealing with the housing crisis. Things are worse now than they were a year ago. There have been very few improvements anywhere along the line. Homes are not going up but...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...the truth to come out about it? NAMA is rotten to the core. I believe the Minister knows this. I do not believe for a second he thinks it is clean. There are problems right through the workings of NAMA. The dogs on the street know it. Will the Government pretend forever it has done a great job and lie to the people? The people are tired of being lied to. This is why politics are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 Jan 2017)

Mick Wallace: 172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the investigation into the rescue of over 200 dogs in January 2016 by Wexford County Council, the WSPCA and the NWSPCS in Ferns, County Wexford has now concluded; the person or body that carried out these investigations; his views on the role and responsibility of the local authority in the investigation and welfare groups in...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...and he wondered why buildings cost so much. That is not true. It costs more to build here than in many other places. It costs way too much to build here but this issue has not been examined. The Minister proposes to introduce a 5% subsidy for people buying houses but the dogs on the street know that this will be a subsidy for the developer rather than the builder. People are confused....

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...not have enough evidence and wants due process. Was the O'Higgins report not enough for the Minister in the first place? Forgetting what was put on her desk last week, was that not enough for her? The dogs on the street can see that there was a deliberate effort on the part of the Commissioner to undermine the credibility of Maurice McCabe.

Other Questions: Bord na gCon (13 Jul 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...xa3;2,000 in November 2015 and banned him for three months for the presence of the same prohibited substance. It is little wonder the British are recommending to their owners and trainers not to buy Irish dogs because they are drugged to the ears. That is what they have said. The trainer, Graham Holland, appeared before the Bord na gCon control committee meeting in May owing to the...