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Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Wonder woman.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is wrong. They have been closed.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Seamus Healy and his colleagues in the Technical Group for bringing forward this excellent motion. I begin by declaring an interest in this matter in that I own a small post office and am the postmaster there. I am happy to say that it provides a job for one individual. If everybody created one job, it would be a great thing. I compliment the Irish Postmasters' Union,...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I take back the word "lying". They are meagre with the truth. When it comes to the local elections, I urge people to ask the candidates who come to their door whether they are for rural post offices and the post office network or if they are happy to go along with the Labour Party and Fine Gael line. The Minister for Social Protection - otherwise known as Wonder Woman, according to the...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: If he did it, it is all right.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The programme for Government contains a commitment with regard to sustaining the post office network in the country. Why has the Government, through its actions, done a U-turn with regard to this? In particular the actions of the Department of Social Protection are not helping to sustain our rural post offices.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is happening and the Government closed down Garda stations before.

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: He sat on it for two years.

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: He did not tell the Taoiseach about it.

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: And his arrogance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses and acknowledge those in attendance in the Visitors Gallery. Last year, I stated in the Dáil that changes in emergency call-outs, in County Kerry in particular, would lead to deaths. Unfortunately, I have since been proved right as they resulted directly in the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Riordan from Direen, Cahirciveen, who fell ill in Tralee town within sight of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Implementation (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will postpone and review the carbon tax at a time when one in five households is in fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9119/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9118/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence in respect of funding for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9343/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department is by-passing post offices by driving more social welfare recipients over to electronic payments through the banking system; if she will give a commitment that her Department will cease what it is doing and encourage recipients to use the local post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9120/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 423. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on whether the burning season should be extended a month, in view of the fact that his Department are saying that there is too much scrub on land and deeming it ineligible; every opportunity should be given to allow for the removal of that scrub; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9276/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Service Provision (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 435. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding Saorview; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9299/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Insurance Industry Regulation (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 455. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many of the insurance providers for architects and engineers are pulling out of the Irish market due to the new regulations being introduced on 1 March, which will only lead to higher premiums for everyone involved and it obviously means that a lot of these architects and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 456. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the commencement on 1 March of mandatory self certification of building works through SI9-2014, if there are any other than mandatory latent defects insurance truly needed to secure the rights of consumers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9110/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 457. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the commencement on 1 March of mandatory self certification of building works through SI9-2014, the way the pyrite scandal would have been resolved by these regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9111/14]