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Psychological Service: Motion (20 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: If the parents want it, we should be able to secure it.

Psychological Service: Motion (20 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: I support this motion. It is probably one of the most important issues we have discussed so far this session. Nobody knows better than the Minister about the importance of timely intervention for vulnerable children. The educational assessment and the education plan which follows it is the gateway to the services a child needs. If the gateway is closed owing to the absence of an...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (20 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the impact on all private sector public transport providers, including all those providing vital bus services in the Dublin area, of the withdrawal without notice of the fuel excise duty rebate and the inequity of informing only public sector providers of proposed changes in view of the consequent...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (20 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 303: To ask the Minister for Transport when real time information will be rolled out at bus stops in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29809/07]

Office of the Attorney General. (21 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: The Taoiseach never had the files in the first place. This file covered 25 million people.

Schools Building Projects. (21 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: I appreciate the opportunity to raise this matter and I thank the Minister for attending to reply. A decision by the building unit on a school building for Gaelscoil Thaobh na Coille is critical if a repeat of the entire tendering process is to be avoided. The gaelscoil is situated in an area that has experienced significant population growth over the past 15 years and the growth rate has...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (21 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of radiologists employed by the Health Service Executive; the number of radiologists with an expertise in breast cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30003/07]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (21 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the opinion of the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Service Executive, as well as that of her Department's Hospital Planning Office and the National Development Finance Agency, the proposed radiotherapy network will not be delivered through PPP by the target date of 2011; if it will be delivered by this time; and...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (21 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason on his Department's website, it is stated that the total capital cost of the National Aquatic Centre was €70.5 million when the previously stated cost was €63 million; if this is so, the reason for the overrun; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30132/07]

Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (22 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has applied to the EU under revised EU legislation to have the age limit for compulsory BSE testing raised from its current level of 30 months. [30038/07]

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (22 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the value for money review of the TB eradication scheme has been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30037/07]

Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome the Bill, as far as it goes and as late as it is. There has been significant pressure from a variety of sources to bring the Bill to the House, as alluded to by the Minister of State. The greatest pressure came from the rightful contention of the nascent competitors in the market that VHI had an unfair advantage in not being required to hold the same level of reserves as was...

Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: I have been a member most of my life and children and family have also been members. I intend to stay with it. However, I am in favour of competition and the customers of VHI deserve the kind of service they can get in a competitive environment, as do other competitors. It is in all our interests to ensure we do everything to create a level playing pitch. We should not let the genie out...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Did the Minister not know that?

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: So now it is our fault?

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Why does the Minister believe it now?

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 517: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when construction will commence for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 in view of the fact that tenders have been received and a contractor chosen; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that if this project is not sanctioned by the end of November 2007, the tendering process will have to recommence and that the children...

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: I reiterate the point made by my colleague, Deputy Upton. No questions are being answered by the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism. Who is responsible for rejecting questions that are clearly related to the Minister's brief? Is the Minister responsible for anything?

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: What is the other way?

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Bring it on.