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Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I know you do. Thank you.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: Minister, please.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: Next is Senator McFadden, who has eight minutes.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the Minister. As everybody has described, this is a serious issue that has to be addressed. Unfortunately, much of the commentary and debate, in particular in political circles and in these Houses, has been below the belt. I join with Senator Buttimer in condemning the comments of Deputy Darragh O'Brien. I refer to his personal attack on the Minister. I will pick up on the word...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: That is why it is called Rebuilding Ireland. It is because something has collapsed. It is like after a war.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: The Senator's party had its go. She does not want to hear it.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: She does not want to hear it.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I ask the Senator not to interrupt.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: What about the 3,000 ghost estates in 2011 when Fianna Fáil left Government?

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: Where are her colleagues?

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I am looking over to Senator Murnane O'Connor's side and she looks very lonesome.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: There is not another Fianna Fáil Member over there.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I will, if the Senator will let me speak. I will stand by them.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: Senator Murnane O'Connor would be better placed to go to her Fianna Fáil-controlled councils and ask why the local authorities are not building social housing, with hundreds of millions of euro available. That would be a more constructive use of her time.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I refer to housing loans and affordable housing loans. There is an issue in Mayo where local authority tenants are paying rent. They are good rent payers. They may be in receipt of a social welfare payment. They could get a loan only the local authority will rule them out because they are in receipt of a social welfare payment. They could be investing and buying a house. They are...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Commissioner Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I am delighted to join in the warm welcome for the Commissioner in Seanad Éireann. Time is limited, so I will confine my contribution to taking the opportunity to ask questions. At the most recent visit to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach by the Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro, he took the opportunity to set out...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: I join in the congratulations to our two new colleagues, Senators Lawlor and Marshall. I wish them well in their tenure in this House and look forward to engaging with them in that regard. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to address an issue with which hundreds of rural primary schools around the country are struggling. These are small schools...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: The principal, Lorraine Bullard, has written to me and has set out the case very clearly. It is a case which would be repeated in many schools I know of. The school is on a narrow country road which has got busier because it leads to Ireland West Airport Knock. It is a two-teacher school. The only option for the staff is to park on the road. The only option for parents dropping off kids...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: Well I think the Minister should be invited in here to discuss this as an education issue because-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: -----it is a policy. There should be co-operation between the local authorities and the Department of Education and Skills. Hard-pressed parents do not have money to buy land and to construct parking areas. It is a very serious issue. We do not want to see any accidents happening and there is a danger that they will.