Michael Healy-Rae

To inform members of the Dail & Seanad of issues facing people with disabilities in relation to Personal Assistance Hours and secure funding

To inform members of the Dail & Seanad of issues facing people with disabilities in relation to housing and the need to implement policy

To inform members of the Dail & Seanad of issues facing people with disabilities in relation to transport and the need to implement policy

The introduction of a cost of disability payment to help equalise the the cost of living experienced by people with disabilities

To ensure that the money illegally converted to its use by the Private Limited Company is returned to those from whom it was taken.

Improvement to policies and strategies on suicide prevention in the workplace.

Information sharing on the SSE announcement and the local briefing provided to staff.

Seeking greater priority to be given to achieving a greater spread of visitors to the regions and extending the overall tourism season. Support was sought for increased funding for tourism marketing and product development.

Seeking support for the 9% tourism VAT rate::For priority to be given to achieving a greater spread of visitors to the regions and extending the overall tourism season.::Support was sought for increased funding for tourism marketing and product development.

To establish a credit union supported, state backed fund for Social Housing

To ensure understanding of industry perspective on proposed legislation and policy change.

Discretion in lending small amounts to be restored to credit unions::To ensure credit is available for the most vulnerable

To tackle income volatility:::- Extension of income averaging where farmer’s spouse is self-employed - where a spouse of a farmer has a fully separable source of income from self-employment, income averaging should be allowed on the farm profits.::- Individualising income…

That the Transitional Arrangements currently in place are extended temporarily so that their eventual discontinuation can be negotiated within the scope of the full review on the basis of introducing alternative measures to encourage the use of organic fertilisers::Or that the…

Agri-Environment Schemes - GLAS - that funding of €250m is allocated for agri-environment schemes in Budget 2017, with full payments for all GLAS, AEOS and oranic scheme participants::Areas of Natural Constraints - that funding is increased by €25m in Budget 2017, to €225m, This…