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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Applications (3 Mar 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application (details supplied) to the Mayo North East Leader Partnership; if it will be expedited due to the time taken to process the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8957/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Applications (3 Mar 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to Mayo North East Leader Partnership (details supplied); when a decision will issue; if it will be expedited due to the length of time since the application was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8958/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Applications (3 Mar 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to Mayo North East Leader Partnership by an organisation (details supplied); if it will be expedited due to the time taken to process it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8975/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Applications (3 Mar 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of an application to Mayo North East Leader Partnership in respect of a community centre (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it can be expedited due to the time taken to process the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8989/15]

Income and Living Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. There is no doubt that inequalities exist in society. They are a product of complex economic ideologies over time. There is no getting away from the fact that Ireland practises so-called democratic capitalism. Often we have to play by rules in which we had no say in the first place. I refer in particular to our approach to promissory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I also welcome the representatives from the suppliers to the meeting. If one thinks of it, a few short years ago there was only one supplier and we would deal with the Regulator. It is to be welcomed that the market has opened up. To pre-empt the response to the Senator's question, I understand that in the past few years, I am sure in big part due to the opening up of the market, we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: Just one point, Mr. Tom Gillen referred to energy efficiency measures which suppliers are required to undertake but have not yet passed on the cost. I ask whether they will do so. Perhaps he would elaborate on that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: Wind farms must be planned in the right way. Concerns have been expressed by certain local authority areas that the technical expertise is not available on smaller wind farms in particular in order to ensure against flicker and to ensure a properly designed wind farm. Do the witnesses have an opinion on that? Do they think that Government guidelines could be more prescriptive? As the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: Based on my experience, I am aware of the impact on housing of a wind farm in County Roscommon that is causing problems in the area. This is cited as an example of how wind farms are inevitably anti-social and against people. My understanding, having looked into it, is that the issue that has arisen could have been avoided if the wind farm was designed in the correct way. That is my concern.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (24 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason some of the agri-environment options scheme 2 payments for 2014, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, were kept back; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8169/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (24 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 363. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding negotiations between the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Russian authorities in respect of the bilateral agreement on inter-country adoptions; when the authority will finalise the wording of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7933/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Industry (24 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 610. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the income for 2014 for the State-owned fisheries on the River Moy at the Ridgepool Cathedral beat and the Spring Wells beat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8151/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fish Farming (24 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 611. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the count on the salmon-run returns on the boxes in the Ballina fisheries in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8152/15]

Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I urge that the gambling control Bill be published as soon as possible. An assurance was given to the Irish Amusement Trades Association that it would be brought forward early this year. We rely on legislation that is 50 to 80 years old and the business has moved on. There are anomalies on the definition and operation of such businesses and it has an effect on regulations for the proper...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed Circuit Television Systems (19 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 9. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider putting in place funding for the provision and upgrading of closed-circuit television systems, with dedicated monitoring staff, to assist with policing for towns and villages throughout the country, which have experienced a reduction in Garda numbers and-or where Garda stations have closed; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: 225. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she will announce local funding under the structures at risk fund and the built heritage jobs leverage scheme for 2015, considering the great success of these schemes over the past few years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7440/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: The graph shows that domestic electricity prices are lower in Ireland than the European average and that business prices are the same as the European average. I understand that was not the case a few years ago. The graphs set out the breakdown of the electricity prices. Is the fact that the cost of domestic electricity is lower in Ireland related to the wholesale price of electricity, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: I am very hopeful, a Chathaoirligh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: What is the optimum amount of wind in the system? Is it 40% or 50%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: What about undergrounding on DC technology, which does not involve much more than taking the wind out?