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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Programme (14 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 858. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the purposes of implementing the Leader element of the Rural Development Programme 2014 to 2020; if the Government adopted a definition of rural areas that will exclude applications from certain areas and the location of those areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28613/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Charge (14 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 892. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated amount of extra revenue from replacing the television licence with a household broadcasting charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28234/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I am competing with Senator Keane now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: There is a lot of emphasis on the electoral register because that is the empowering point at which one can participate, through one's vote, in democracy. However, we must also consider that we will never have the optimum position, which is that everybody who should be on the electoral register is on it. There are two parts to that, the first of which is trying to get people to register,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: We are by virtue of our vote.

Social Services and Support: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important motion. I thank the proposers. How we respect and support our elderly people is the measure of our society and where we are going. They should always be to the fore. We go from childhood to adulthood, obviously, and then become elderly and become in some ways dependent again. These are the people whose shoulders we stand on and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will require local authorities, when undertaking planned maintenance and energy efficiency measures in council housing, to allow tenants the option of a solid fuel range with back boiler and radiators instead of an oil-fired central heating system, which sees vulnerable individuals in risk of fuel poverty being...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations Provision (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the priority his Department has provided to the provision of a new fire station in Crossmolina in County Mayo, which is the number one priority for the local fire authority, Mayo County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28718/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 565. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans for existing maternity services at Mayo General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30154/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for County Mayo oncology patients for follow-up assessments to ascertain the progress of treatment at Galway University Hospital's centre of excellence for cancer treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30414/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve a devolved grant application by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo to address the inadequacy of accommodation which results in classes being conducted in the school corridor on a regular basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29682/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Reform (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the student grant scheme so that mortgage repayments on the family home and the total number of dependent children in a family are considered in the means test for grant eligibility, due to the reality that these are substantial outgoings from family income, and too many families are paying the high standard variable rate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Service Obligation Levy Payments (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 808. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current position on the future of public service obligation payments to Tynagh and Aughinish power plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30148/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Implementation (16 Jul 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 809. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recent energy bulletin from the National Competitiveness Council that recommended ending the renewable energy feed in tariff programme 2 when it expires in 2017, and for the divesting of additional Electricity Supply Board price setting power generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I, too, express every confidence in the Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government. It strikes me that one always hears Deputies speak about political reform. While it may be possible to change rules, improve accountability or have things run more smoothly, it is not possible to account fully for human nature. This motion is an example of Deputies playing silly buggers. It wastes...

Other Questions: Post Office Network (22 Sep 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made by the Post Office Business Development Group established by the Government to identify and implement new business opportunities for the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31756/15]

Other Questions: Post Office Network (22 Sep 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I am seeking an update on the progress made by the post office development group established by the Government to identify and implement new business opportunities for the post office network. It is timely for us to have an update on this. The issue of post office closures, particularly in rural areas, is an old chestnut. What is envisaged as the way forward by the development group is for...

Other Questions: Post Office Network (22 Sep 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: The Minister of State probably does not want to repeat himself.

Other Questions: Post Office Network (22 Sep 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: As the Minister of State speaks to the wider context, I would like to think that, in terms of the vision for rural Ireland that we are developing, we look to the small towns, which may lack post offices, banking or doctors. Maybe there should be a minimum requirement that people would have these basic services in their small market towns and we should have a reasonable ambition of how this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (22 Sep 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal against the refusal of an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30751/15]