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Seanad: Ash Dieback Disease: Statements (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I invite the Minister of State to respond and I am sure there will be some hard pulling.

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs: Motion (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I welcome the Minister and I compliment him on the superb job he is doing. I am pleased to support the motion. One of the biggest challenges faced by the Government in 2011 was the level of job losses and the economic cost of it in terms of supporting people when they are out of work and the loss of tax revenue to fund various services like the health service. The Action Plan for Jobs was...

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs: Motion (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I hope that will bring far more economic activity and job creation into rural parts of our country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I join my colleagues in extending our sincere sympathy to all those who have lost loved ones. We should communicate our support for them in any way we can. It is to be welcomed that the Government responded quickly by pledging €1 million and I hope additional resources will be found. It is particularly worrying that so many remote areas of the region have not yet been reached and...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I join Senator Bacik in extending our sympathies to the people of Nepal on the awful tragedies that have unfolded over the weekend. While I welcome the Government aid of €1 million, I hope we will be able to find much more to alleviate the appalling humanitarian situation that is evolving there and to help other countries to provide resources to rebuild some level of accommodation for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Joint Committee
The Creative Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I thank all of the contributors for giving us a real insight into the potential of the creative sector and acknowledge their message that further investment in this area has the potential to yield many benefits for the economy. I have a question for Ms McBride, whom I also compliment in terms of how she manages to stretch the Arts Council budget so significantly. Ms McBride spoke at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Joint Committee
The Creative Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: Would that be through an umbrella body?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I welcome the indication given yesterday by the CEO of AIB that the bank is likely to take some action on variable interest rates. I do not think any newspaper should be claiming credit for the movement we saw yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: Every public representative and every politician in this House and the other House, of all parties and none, have raised this issue over a long period of time. I hope we will soon see some developments. I support the idea put forward by Senator Coghlan of the independent objective assessment of the rates being charged and likely to be charged. There is a lot of merit in the idea. I...

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I welcome the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Donohoe, to the House.

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: For the information of the Senator, we are taking Report Stage of the Bill today, by order of the House.

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: It would require a proposal from the Acting Leader. The decision of the House this morning was that Committee and Remaining Stages would be taken today.

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: Is Senator Sean D. Barrett pressing the amendment?

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: When it is proposed to take Report Stage?

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I am sharing time with Senator Tony Mulcahy.

Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I am deputising for my colleague, Senator Jim D’Arcy, who is unavoidably absent. I welcome the Minister’s announcement today. The National Council for Special Education, NCSE, proposed a new role model for allocating teacher resources for pupils with special needs. Some work still has to be done on this. In the interim, she has rolled out inclusion support services, ISS, to...

Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)

Michael Mullins: I raised the possibility of the HSE supplying speech and language therapists to schools.