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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: In the interests of transparency, we hope that when the report is eventually made available, the Minister will publish it. Transparency certainly helps. It is amazing that the Department's response to the Data Protection Commissioner's inquiry, at this late stage in the history of the public services card's roll-out, requires such a protracted, extended defence. This is the largest...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is saying the card is optional. Have payments been withheld from anyone who does not have it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Absolutely not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: From our point of view, one of the main problems with the public services card is that the aim of it and the SAFE 2 registration process is not limited to verification. As I said, it is also to coerce consent to data-sharing. Perhaps the Minister is now denying it, but section 262(6) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act states:(a) Where a specified body has a transaction with a person,...

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

Mick Wallace: Very good. Liam Brady played there for a while. Anyway, myself and four other fellas went to the match but we had no tickets. Obviously, we had to buy tickets outside the grounds but in England it is illegal to sell tickets outside, even at cost price and not to mention over the odds. We thought that it would be difficult but the selling goes on in the same way as it does here, even...

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

Mick Wallace: I am sorry but the same fella would be delighted to hear his name mentioned.

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

Mick Wallace: We insisted that all of the runners would go under the van. Otherwise, there would be a smell in the van. Eugene said that he was not throwing his runners under the van because he had just bought them. We said that we would not have them in the van but he said that nobody would throw his runners out and that he was sleeping in his runners, in the van. We had to put up with the smell of...

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

Mick Wallace: I am just setting the scene-----

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

Mick Wallace: In the morning, the four pairs of shoes that were under the van were safe but Eugene's were gone. He lost his Asics and had to come home in his bare feet. It was a harsh lesson. He should have done what he was told in the first instance. There is a debate still going on as to who actually threw the runners out. If I told Deputies, I would have to kill them so I will not tell. Sorry,...

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

Mick Wallace: The Acting Chairman is being awfully strict for a Thursday evening. What is wrong with him?

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

Mick Wallace: The Acting Chairman should relax.

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

Mick Wallace: We are all in trouble now. Miriam Lord has come in.

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

Mick Wallace: The tickets were piled high for every section of every ground for the quarter finals, semi-finals and the final. It is not that I did not suspect that FIFA was corrupt before then but that was the last straw. My God. Obviously, plenty of them lost their jobs in later years when they were exposed for being crooks. As I was saying, the tickets were about £4 and we ended up paying...

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

Mick Wallace: If one goes down to Temple Bar, one can pay €8 for a pint. Would it not be an idea to put a limit on what can be charged for a pint in this town? Would that be a bad idea?

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

Mick Wallace: Maybe Deputies think that is okay because that is the market at work but the guy selling the tickets also thinks that is the market at work. As I said before, I hate paying above the odds for a ticket and I generally do not do it. If I cannot get it for a fair price, I do not go in. There is something seriously wrong that we have no control in this area, in the same way as we have little...

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...