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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Please allow me to clarify. On the night of 6 December Deputy Healy-Rae voted twice, first against a Fianna Fáil amendment and then with the Fine Gael motion, which was an excellent motion. Deputy Coffey may not know that because of his inexperience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Coffey slipped in the mud.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have. I would like to ask one final time: will An Post engage with the IPU representatives? Will it do everything it can to ensure the postmasters and the excellent service continue for generations to come?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I asked An Post about sitting down with the IPU to work together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: On a lighter note to Deputy Noel Harrington, on the Kerry side of the border, when we are filling in the forms, we fill the last part first. We confirm that people want the payment to be made through the post office and then fill in the form.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: My advice to people on the Cork side of the border is that they should do the same. I thank the delegates for coming. I must register my disappointment that the CEO is unable to attend. Everyone is busy and people have different places to be, but I cannot think of where is more important for the CEO of this organisation than before the committee. Mr. Daly and Mr. Sheehan are perfectly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, but I said I did not want to use it. It is criminal. Two weeks ago the Minister said that if people were not shopping on the high street we would put the service where they were going for fear of losing business. He repeated this yesterday in response to Deputy Michael Moynihan at Question Time and the An Post delegates seem to have the same idea. If we nurture and promote the 1,100...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness (Vehicles Testing) (No. 2) Regulations 2013: Discussion (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I, too, welcome the delegates and their supporters. The contribution that they and their fellow enthusiasts make is massive because if the work of restoring vehicles had not been done in the past, we would have lost a very valuable part of our heritage. In my area John Mitchell and his family have given a lifetime to restoring lorries, trucks, motorbikes and other vehicles which will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness (Vehicles Testing) (No. 2) Regulations 2013: Discussion (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is no Morris Minor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness (Vehicles Testing) (No. 2) Regulations 2013: Discussion (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: They have no room for guests.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that our waterways, streams, and rivers for which he has responsibility in the Castleisland area will be cleaned of branches, and so on, that are growing into these streams and rivers and obstructing the natural way of the water. [12241/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Correspondence (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding town councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12450/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Fleet Protection (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding inshore fisherman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12418/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the recent storm damage to forests, if he will provide compensation to farmers who are affected confining it to persons who have had over 25% of their forestry knocked in the recent storm; if clear fell licences will be allowed for these farmers if they want a site to clear fell; if a replanting grant will be made...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of a ground inspection in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [12444/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding REP scheme payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [12445/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding general practitioner contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12251/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the reason in the proposed draft contract for GPs there is a gagging order to stop GPs from saying anything about the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12252/14]

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is related to tax concessions for disabled persons.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: It has been reported that the Government will introduce legislation to change the current regulations relating to tax concessions for disabled persons who wish to purchase motor vehicles.