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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Regional Airports (28 Sep 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: It has been going on for three years.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources to the House to discuss how we are setting about achieving our renewable heating targets for 2020, which we are obliged to do. As the House will know, we are required to obtain 12% of heating for homes and businesses from renewable sources by 2020. There are two aspects to it. First, we have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the Minister and the delegation. The CFRAM programme is an excellent undertaking on the part of the OPW. It is thorough and scientific, and we see what the OPW can do, in conjunction with consultants, in respect of some of the major flood defences that have been built. They have worked. The problem is that they take time, as the Minister of State has highlighted, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: Cathaoirleach, I have just one other point and I would be happy to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: It is and it ties in with all of that. There are parts of the River Deel for which nobody is responsible. It is a big issue. There are whole parts of rivers where, if people go to the OPW, the county council or elsewhere, they are told nobody is responsible. There really does need to be a single authority. On the River Deel, the OPW was batting it over to the National Parks and Wildlife...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: The review of the farm assist scheme, which provides assistance to farmers on low incomes, was recently completed. It would be opportune to do something in the forthcoming budget. About 8,000 people are affected, most of them along the western seaboard. The changes in the 2012 and 2013 budgets by the then Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, have had a very severe negative effect...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister, Deputy Naughten, to come to the House to discuss the effects of food production on climate change and the imposition on Irish farmers to meet our carbon emissions targets. We also need a proper debate about supports and grants for farmers to help them to convert to renewable energy to achieve more energy efficiency. I say this in the context of the...

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (5 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan. In accordance with the order agreed to today, the debate will conclude not later than 4.30 p.m.

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (5 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: Through the Chair.

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (5 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: Senator Black has six minutes.

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (5 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: Senator Paul Coghlan has four minutes.

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (5 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: The Senator's time is up.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I reiterate the now urgent call for the extension of the slurry spreading season. The date on which farmers will no longer be allowed to spread slurry, 15 October, is fast approaching, but I am receiving increasing communications from farmers and agricultural contractors who have not had an opportunity to spread slurry at all this year on account of waterlogged lands. It is no secret that...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I raise the issue of a new insecticide developed by Bayer that is being considered for approval for distribution on the Irish market. Much concern has been expressed about this insecticide, flupyradifurone.The insecticide has been linked with killing bees and other insects that are crucial for the growth of crops and other vegetation. This is a worry as three quarters of the world's crops...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: Sinn Féin has no solutions.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I very much welcome this budget and the €1.3 billion that is available to spend. As a Member of the Oireachtas for the past six years, it was very clear to me that we had to make very tough decisions and cuts year after year as we tried to regain our economic and fiscal sovereignty. The decisions that had to be made were by no means popular. We have reversed that situation in a very...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: Their plan to increase employers' PRSI is literally a tax on jobs.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I note that notwithstanding all the parading along the Border-----

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: We all know that Brexit poses a huge danger to our economy and our exports, particularly with the fall in the value of sterling. However, Sinn Féin has no plan in its budget to incentivise, encourage or support businesses in that context. Instead, the party is looking at the gains in the economy, the money available to spend and how to spend it. Sinn Féin would spend ten times...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: I am just making the point that I was interrupted.

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