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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 421. To ask the Minister for Health where the principal residence of a person on the nursing home support scheme is let before the three-year cap expires, if it will be excluded from the financial assessment at the end of the first three years in care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46207/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rehabilitation Training Allowance Payments (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 423. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo had their training allowance reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46218/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Licensing and Harvesting of Seaweed in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I apologise for not being here for the presentation but I was dealing with other business in the Dáil. With regard to funding the State gave to the universities and third level colleges to engage in research and development on seaweed, by-products and so on, people with an interest in this industry who could be classified as being in the start-up category expressed a concern to me that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Licensing and Harvesting of Seaweed in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: The concern is that if one is outside the loop and trying to get into the industry, things naturally favour people who are established, but there are people with good ideas who are not being assisted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: If the Minister has a few more minutes, I had a serious question for him regarding water. It is obvious that the time allocated---

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: It is an issue that affects people in rural Ireland who do not have a proper water supply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: Some people did not get a chance to contribute at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: In fairness, we can all go and talk to the Minister directly. I have an issue that I wanted to raise here. I have communicated with the current Minister and with his predecessor about it but it is problem that does not seem to fall within the scope of the marching parades against water charges. People in rural Ireland are looking for new group water schemes but are being discommoded...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: In Mayo, there were seven schemes planned but following the change of rules, only two of them made the cut. There are people who have been waiting for years since the Clár scheme collapsed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I have communicated with the Minister on this.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: The motion addresses a serious issue. The truth is that if a person is sick, dying or in serious pain, he or she does not have many options and will want to avail of a health system that can provide help. I welcome the honest attitude taken by the Minister because a lack of honesty adds insult to injury. Having read the motion and noted the signatories to it, I can only describe it as a...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: It is disgusting to note the tenor of the motion. It states the budget is insufficient. The Minister recently left Deputy Kelleher a little stuck on national radio when he corrected him by pointing out that the budget proposed by the Government is much the same as what the Fianna Fáil Party proposed before the budget.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: Sinn Féin provided for even less funding than is provided in the budget. Let us not make a joke at the expense of the people of Ireland. Savage cuts have been made in health in recent years. The embargo on recruitment meant hard-pressed staff had to make do without new recruits. People are no longer able to pay for private health insurance because of the downturn in the economy. More...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance the quantity of petrol which was identified in Bournemouth, England, last summer as contaminated and subsequently rejected as unfit for the UK market that was imported into this jurisdiction and by whom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46410/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have established the source and chain of supply of contaminated petrol complained of by hundreds of persons in County Mayo and elsewhere since last summer whose vehicles have been destroyed or seriously damaged; the action that is being taken in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46411/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance the road side checks of petrol tankers for contaminated fuel that have been conducted by the Revenue Commissioners since last summer and prior to that as a matter of standard practice; the number and nature of such checks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46412/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the checks of petrol tanks in filling stations for contaminated fuel that have been conducted by the Revenue Commissioners since last summer and prior to that as a matter of standard practice in County Mayo in particular and elsewhere around the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46413/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Fuel Fraud: Revenue Commissioners (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: The Chairman had indicated I would speak next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Fuel Fraud: Revenue Commissioners (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Fuel Fraud: Revenue Commissioners (3 Dec 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the officials from the Revenue Commissioners. This issue is plaguing my constituency, Mayo. By virtue of that I am aware of other cases around the country. Most citizens think of the Revenue Commissioners as a State organisation that knows how to get a job done, is effective, does an excellent job but their investigation of contaminated petrol has been a disaster. ...