Results 1,561-1,580 of 3,519 for speaker:Michelle Mulherin
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Incidence (21 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: 563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses, both private and social, in County Mayo that have been reported to his Department as having pyrite damage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39889/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the representatives of the commission. It is regrettable that we were not able to have this conversation before the CER issued the price of water. Nonetheless, considering the storm of concern among the public about water provision, charging for it, fairness, affordability and so forth, it is important that the representatives are present at this meeting. The main concern is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: I was reassured by the regulator at our last meeting that there would be fairness but people do not see this as fair. I do not see how anyone can justify it as fair. There are concerns about the extent to which that can be curtailed because we already have a level of unfairness which I expected would be prevented through the regulator's objective involvement. In regard to the big...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: Does the price of water include the cost of the additional local authority staff that have passed over?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: I asked what is the cost, how has CER quantified or what cost is being attributed to the SLAs and to these additional local authority staff regarding the cost of water. Globally, what figure has been put on that matter? How does it translate into the cost per cubic litre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: That does not answer my question.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: 120. To ask the Minister for Health when is the replacement for the motorised transport grant scheme and the mobility allowance scheme likely to come into place; if he will make it a priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40795/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: 219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the mapping exercise of the national broadband scheme coverage areas; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40693/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: I would like to focus on my concern about the way in which NAMA has been dealing with developers. Particular cases have been brought to my attention. It would seem from both media commentary and information I have received myself that in many cases developers, some of whom have performing loans and were only brought under NAMA's remit through legislation, are being brought to their knees....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: Mr. McDonagh is saying that NAMA refused the highest offer on the basis of the conditions being attached to it by the offerer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: What was the nature of Mr. McDonagh's objection to the conditions? What was undesirable about the particular-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: I dispute that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: I have seen correspondence where-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: And then a third party was bidding on the Saturday morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: The other fact is that there are small creditors who have lost 95% of what was due to them because of an examinership-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: -----and because the company went into freefall.
- Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: Earlier this week CER officials appeared before the Joint Committee on Environment, Community and Local Government to discuss the issue of water tariffs in order that we could drill down into them and be satisfied about the various components that are being considered to price water provision. These include fairness, customer protection and so on, but a fair assessment of the meeting is that...
- Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: Many other factors must come into play. Most countries have water charges, which are metered, and they are much cheaper. When a question was posed about this at the meeting, the CER officials explained that these systems took a longer time to introduce and have been on the go for a long time and they described them as incentive-based. We do not seem to be in that place. This, among other...
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Michelle Mulherin: What is the delay in the production of legislation to underpin the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant replacement schemes? There are persons who are precluded. No new applicants are being accepted. There are those who should get it. There is concern and it has been going on a while. What is the problem?