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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: We are not going to bring in legislation the next day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council: Chairman Designate (25 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome Ms Pratschke and wish her well in her new position which I anticipate that she will accept. I shall make a few points for which I hope to get feedback. The past few years here have been very important and somewhat revolutionary from an arts point of view. The arts have reached out to the four corners of the country through the advent and construction of many arts venues, art...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council: Chairman Designate (25 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: How might such an initiative be measured? In my experience the initiative was carried out in an ad hoc fashion. I am from County Mayo and acknowledge that there has been some welcome funding and input from the Arts Council for venues in Mayo. I know that a lot of the venues operate on a shoestring budget. Notwithstanding receiving funding from local authorities, it is important to have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council: Chairman Designate (25 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I am talking about programme funding.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (20 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 224. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the negotiations between the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Russian authorities regarding the bilateral agreement on inter-country adoptions and when will the AAI have finalised the wording of the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8768/14]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: We can safely say that emotions have been running high since the story broke on Sunday week last that the Garda ombudsman may have been bugged. What a sensational story. Much of the focus and comment has been on relationships - good relationships, appropriate relationships, bad relationships - particularly between the Garda ombudsman and the Garda Commissioner, and the Minister thrown into...

Recent Flooding: Statements (Resumed) (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I share the praise for people in the emergency services who in a time of need and at some risk to themselves went out and played a very important part in assisting people in distress whose homes had been breached by floods and where power had gone. I speak particularly of the local authorities, the fire services, Civil Defence, the Army, the Garda and the volunteers. Some volunteers even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: May I assist the committee on the point raised by Deputy Harrington? Commissioner Foley offered that information in an interjection when she was responding to my questions which were at a later stage in the proceedings, so it does not follow in sequence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: It is subsequent to that and then a question as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: In fairness, those guidelines were not laid out to the Minister. I will keep it short. It will involve more than one but I will group them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: On the basis of the evidence presented to the Minister, does he consider it is fair to say that the action of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission was disproportionate? I am being pushed to put questions to the Minister. Clearly in December the commission had closed the book on this. Only for what appeared in the Sunday newspaper - it may have happened at another time - this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: to include in the terms of reference-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: In fairness, I am just concluding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: With the backdrop of mutual suspicion, can the terms of reference provide for recommendations by the retired High Court judge on how to rectify this or how to address it in future? We know protocols have been set up but clearly there are still problems. This is the real issue and it has, in effect, been fanning the flames of the issue we are dealing with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the Minister and his officials. Mr. Simon O'Brien of GSOC gave a statement to this committee last week, which in part resembled the briefing note he gave the Minister, subsequent to which the Minister addressed the Dáil. What was noteworthy was that the Ombudsman decided to instigate a section 102 public interest investigation, subsequent to a general sweep of the offices....

Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: When will legislation be published to provide a statutory replacement for the discontinued mobility allowance and motorised transport grant schemes? The matter is of great concern to people around the country with mobility issues, their families and representative organisations. There is an urgency to the matter at this stage.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (19 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a review of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8437/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I must clarify that the amount set out in the draft scheme of development, which cannot be enacted because there is no statutory basis for it and it is unenforceable as a planning condition, is €2,000. In the course of a debate a motion was passed specifying that the amount would be €10,000, but the document refers to an amount of €2,000, and Bord na Móna was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: I asked a question about a converter station.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: Vice Chairman, I have been here from the beginning and other speakers were given ample time. I ask that he bear with me a little longer. My point is that we need new thinking on this issue, and education has a role in that. We must have more engagement in primary schools, such as the green flag initiatives, to teach pupils about the environment, the importance of conserving water and that...