Regina Doherty, MEP

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of persons currently on the various local authority housing lists throughout the country...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department is being made aware of new applicants applying for local authority housing...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he and his Department have managed to address the inherited issue of distressed shared ownership mortgages...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the local authority Tenant Purchase Scheme is likely to be announced...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various forms of waste management are currently being used...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the new guidelines in respect of windfarms will become applicable...

Speaking today (Friday), Fine Gael MEP for Dublin, Brian Hayes said: “The latest CSO figures are a clear indication that the Irish economy has now entered a new phase of development. The economic recovery which began in 2013 accelerated in 2014. The economy grew by 5.2% in 2014 and the recovery has further accelerated in the first quarter of 2015.

Fine Gael TD for Mayo, Michelle Mulherin, has commended the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney after he made a strong call at a recent Council of Agriculture Ministers in the EU Commission to consider examination of the intervention price. Deputy Mulherin has called for an increase in the intervention price due to the detrimental impact the current rate of 21 cent per litre has on milk prices.

Fine Gael TD for Cork South West Jim Daly has said today (Wednesday) the latest Central Bank growth projections reflect the economic recovery and the priority now is to secure the recovery.

Fine Gael TD for Roscommon/South Leitrim, Frank Feighan, has announced that he will not contest the next general election.