Health Service Plan will suffer due to retirements
The Health Service Plan 2012 was debated in the Dáil on February 2nd. The Plan outlines how the HSE will spend their budget for the coming year, indicating cuts to certain services. The loss of 3,500 staff due to early retirement will leave gaps in frontline services and will surely have to be replaced for the health service to function. [...]
Let the people have their say on fiscal treaty
Mick Wallace, TD has called on the Government to facilitate a referendum on the Fiscal Compact Treaty as soon as possible. In his address to the Dáil on Wednesday February 1st, Mick told the Government that they had received a mandate from the people at the last election and accepting this treaty was not part [...]
Minister Hogan acting in the dark on septic tanks
On Wednesday, January 25th Mick spoke on the Water Services [Amendment] Bill 2011 in the Dáil. The debate with Minister Hogan continued throughout the afternoon with Mick inputing his opinion at different stages on a topic that he is very familiar with. The main point in Mick’s address stressed that the Governement were acting without any real knowledge of the scale [...]
What does power do to people?
On January 25th, Clare Daly TD brought the Promissory Notes Motion before the Dáil to address the €1.25 billion payment by the Government to unsecured Anglo Irish Bank bondholders. In his speech, Mick points out that Government parties have now completely forgotten the arguments they made before gaining power and asks, ‘how, in God’s name, can [...]
Time to create employment in Wexford
On January 25th, Mick asked Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton to create employment not just in the South East but in Wexford in particular. With unemployment rates soaring in the county, a lack of a 3rd level institution, high suicide rates, teenage pregnancies and low literacy levels; Mick pressed the Minister to bring [...]
Still no closer to a resolution at Priory Hall
The serious implications of the sub-standard building work at the Priory Hall complex are still ongoing. Although we hear less and less about the problems at the Complex, it is still not resolved in any way. Mick visited the site and met with those affected and raised the issue in the Dáil the following week [...]
Selling state assets won’t create employment
The Troika have met with delegations from all parties including one from the Technical Group. Mick was part of the group which met with seven members of the Troika. In a question to Minister Howlin in the Dáil, Mick asked him to clarify the Troika’s assertion that the sale of state assets would go towards servicing debt rather than [...]
Land freeze on proposed Rosslare-Oilgate bypass should be lifted
The postponement of the Rosslare-Oilgate bypass due to a lack of funding has came as no suprise to the people of Wexford. A number of months ago, the NRA admitted that money was not available to begin the project yet they were happy to start the planning process. In effect, this means that land owners on the [...]
Vulnerable students to suffer in loss of guidance counsellors
The withdrawl of guidance counsellors from secondary schools was discussed in the Dáil on Thursday, December 15th by Mick and Fianna Fail TD Brendan Smith with Minister Quinn under time allocated for topical issues. Since raising the issue, Mick has spoken about the effects these measures will have in particular on Gorey Community School, Wexford in the Dáil and on national radio. The loss of [...]
Household Charge is unfair and should be opposed
On Monday December 12th Mick held a public meeting in the Wexford Youths football complex to launch the Wexford branch of the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes. A large crowd turned out to voice their opinions and discuss the issue with Mick and Dublin TD Clare Daly. The Campaign is aimed at bringing together communities [...]
