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Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (19 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the immigration status of a person (details supplied); and the steps they may take to regularise their position. [12138/11]

Agriculture: Motion (24 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: I am glad to support the Minister's amendment to the motion. I also welcome the recognition on all sides of the House of the importance of western counties and disadvantaged areas to farming and rural life and of the need for continued support for small and medium-sized farms. The amendment is not just words. In terms of the AOS scheme, the Minister has demonstrated his understanding of...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (24 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used in awarding the second allocation of grants under the summer works scheme 2011; the priority given to the application of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo for new external windows in circumstances when a school extension is under construction and the existing windows are more than 30 years old and not fit...

Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (25 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the reform of the common agricultural policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12578/11]

Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (25 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his priorities in the negotiations on the reform of the common agricultural policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12579/11]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: I welcome the jobs initiative, particularly the way in which it sets about tackling competitiveness and the cost base. As has been stated, these have gone against our ability to create jobs and attract tourists and so on. I wish to address another jobs issue of which we are all aware, namely, that of subcontractors. People have done jobs but cannot get paid by main contractors. I am...

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (26 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an additional member, a money advisor, to the North Mayo Monetary Advice and Budgeting Service office which has a seven week waiting list and services from Blacksod to Ballaghaderreen and south Sligo which includes an area with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and has not had an increase in staff...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (31 May 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passports issued from the Passport Office each year for the past five years; the staffing levels and average waiting times for each year; the amount of ordinary fees paid for passports by applicants and the amount of additional fees paid for the express service in respect of each year. [13397/11]

Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: The registration of wills Bill would do a great service to the country if it was introduced as soon as possible. It is overdue and will address the crazy situation where the family of the deceased and the solicitor administering an estate cannot formally establish whether the deceased held a will. This has been going on for years and I ask that we do some housekeeping to debate the...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: I also welcome the jobs initiative and the Minister's determination in implementing the aspect of it which pertains to her Department, namely, the 5,000 internships and Tús places and 3,000 back to education places. While we always hope for more it will provide confidence. We have said we are going to do something and we do it. It will be welcome news to the Irish people that we say what...

Written Answers — Electricity Transmission Network: Electricity Transmission Network (9 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding ownership of the power transmission grid; his views on whether the previous Government missed the EU deadline for unbundling the grid and transferring ownership to EirGrid; if the EU will now impose fines until we comply with the relevant EU directives; if he intends to seek a derogation...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total budget allocated to the free travel pass scheme nationally; the private operators' allocations per county; if she will provide clarification of the compensation awarded due to extreme remoteness and high level of deprivation, PSO, no train service, distance from the general hospital, distance from large towns, banking...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (15 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the single electricity market is of the type known as a regulatory requirement market in which labour and energy costs are treated as expenses and passed on to consumers without markup and in which generators make profits from investment in capital equipment such as fossil fuel-flexible generation plant and...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (15 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 380: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount of fossil fuel generating capacity in the single electricity market; the amount of fossil fuel-flexible generation plant in the SEM and in the Gate 3 licensing programme; the amount of fossil fuel-flexible generation capacity in the least cost portfolio of the all-island grid study in...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (21 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the proposed removal of transport services for oncology and dialysis patients by the Health Service Executive's western area, effective from 1 July 2011, and the need for the Minister for Health to provide assurance to the 600 patients in Mayo, Galway and Roscommon that they will be...

Alternative Energy Projects (21 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: There has been a great deal of debate about the excellent wind speeds along this country's western seaboard. We do not have hard information about the nature of the resource that is available to us. It is like drilling a few trial holes for oil without being able to assess or quantify the actual resource we have. Notwithstanding all the fine talk about our renewable wind energy resource,...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (22 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Mayo County Council has adopted a new renewable energy strategy which designates many hundreds of square kilometres of lands as preferred or open to consideration for onshore wind farming including very large areas of north-west Mayo; if he will provide the...

Written Answers — Natural Resources Data: Natural Resources Data (22 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Mayo County Council passed a unanimous resolution calling on semi-State companies in possession of data relating to our natural resources to disclose that information; his views that openness and transparency should be standard practice in projects that seek to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on appeals for child benefit and disability benefit payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [17228/11]

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (30 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the closure of the Jobfit programme at the end of June, the body from which unemployed persons will receive the support which that organisation provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18107/11]