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Seanad: Update on Implementation of National Forestry Programme: Statements (27 Feb 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the Minister of State to the House to discuss this very important topic. As previous speakers said, the forestry programme is throwing up a number of issues in rural Ireland. Before I get into discussing that, I would like to pay tribute to a former Deputy from my own county, Mr. Joe Blowick, who served as a Minister for Lands. Prior to his election, there was no forestry...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the report recently published by the Western Development Commission, WDC. It analyses employment data in industry in the west region. As always, information from the commission, such as in this document, gives an independent perspective on how we are faring in job creation. We are all anxious to pursue that. The report contains much positive and revealing information. The west...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: And obtaining solutions.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: I wish to express my absolute dismay and disappointment at the decision of the energy regulator with regard to the Mayo power plant at the Asahi site in Killala, County Mayo. It seems that its decision sounds the death-knell for the short-term delivery of a 45 MW high-efficiency, combined heat and power, biomass-fuelled power plant at this location. This is devastating for the area. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte: Chairperson Designate (12 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: I wish Ms Gray well in her new role, which sounds exciting, and I thank her for her presentation. I have a number of questions. In the past, Coillte appeared before the committee regarding concerns landowners have raised regarding partnership, the different types of partnership and how people feel they were sold a pig in a poke and did not get value for what they had given to Coillte. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte: Chairperson Designate (12 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: I have a supplementary question. Given that has happened, that addresses the communications aspect. The particular landowners we heard from had issues. Now that they know the position, is Coillte dealing with objections or challenges regarding the agreements as to what people thought they were getting into and what Coillte has communicated to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte: Chairperson Designate (12 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: Regarding Coillte plans to develop 1,000 MW of renewable energy by 2030, I am familiar with Coillte's involvement with wind energy. What is Ms Gray's view of biomass, how it is being developed and how it could be used potentially to generate electricity and heat? How does she see that being developed vis-à-vis our requirement for renewable energy in terms of heat and electricity and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte: Chairperson Designate (12 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: Coillte seems to have reservations about the use of biomass for the generation of electricity and heat or going down that avenue. Biomass is used in Scandinavian countries, although it may be in the context of district heating systems.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte: Chairperson Designate (12 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: But there are no immediate plans.

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: I spoke on Second Stage but want to make some brief comments.

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: It is important to note that the Supreme Court judgment which upheld the finding of the High Court did not say that voisinagearrangements are not valid but only that we do not have sufficient provision in domestic law to support the arrangements whereby Northern Ireland fishermen can come into the six-mile zone. The Supreme Court did note, however, that the arrangements were "a sensible...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: At 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 26 March 2019.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: Will the next generation?

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: The Minister of State will be well aware that environmental designation of land can have a severe impact on the ability of human beings to pursue legitimate socioeconomic objectives. I point to the western seaboard, and the west in general, as an example of where most of the lands designated as SACs are located. Contrary to what one might assume, a major road can run through an SAC and...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: At 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 27 March 2019.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: I support the protest outside the Dáil which will take place this afternoon by the National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, the members of which are in dispute with their employer, the HSE. NASRA, which represents more than 600 ambulance personnel, currently falls under the umbrella of the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA. This group of workers within the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: It is misery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: It has been suggested in the contributions that these few lines are pivotal. I think they make common sense. We should be guided but it should be looked at in a schematic way, and the schematic way is by moving towards reducing carbon emissions and taking carbon out of the way we live. I remind members that one of the requirements of the energy regulator when putting renewables on the grid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: What is being proposed in the amendment is too prescriptive. It is quite clear that we are talking about active labour market policies which when read, as Deputy Sherlock said, in conjunction with the line at 3582, set out that the interventions agreed to can address concerns about the active labour market policies that might be put in place. JobPath may be no more. There may be something...