Results 2,361-2,380 of 5,767 for speaker:Olivia Mitchell
- Telecommunications Services. (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether Ireland's broadband infrastructure, connectivity and bandwidth, as indicated in recent OECD surveys, is limiting Ireland's competitiveness and economic progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31271/07]
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: The Taoiseach is joking. Is he being serious?
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: It also means taking responsibility.
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: He has changed his mind since.
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 285: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to introduce further waste packaging legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31613/07]
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 288: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to promote improved waste packaging recycling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31616/07]
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 290: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views of the level of support and relationship his Department provides to the repak compliance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31618/07]
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 286: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is aware that newspaper companies generate a high volume of waste; if he has plans to include this sector in future waste packaging legislation in the short-term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31614/07]
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 287: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce internal recycling facilities given that the majority of waste produced in Ireland has to be exported in order to be recycled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31615/07]
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 289: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to introduce further categorisation of waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31617/07]
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Are we just going to nod it through?
- Arts Plan. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will report on the status and future of the ACCESS programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31684/07]
- Arts Plan. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Nobody can deny the capital funding that has been available to the arts in the past ten years and in the local authority of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown there are now two major theatres where there was none ten years ago. They are representative of the proliferation of facilities that has generated a need for further programmes if we are to get value for money from the ACCESS programme. There...
- Arts Plan. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: There is a suggestion that the Arts Council will only fund facilities where the local authority provides matching funding. I think it unfair that facilities would have to draw down money from local authorities that, after all, do not have a statutory function in this regard. Is this the policy and what is the Minister's view on this?
- Arts Plan. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: I understand but I heard it suggested that may be the case in the future.
- Tourism Industry. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the potential loss of tourism opportunities as a result of the planned termination of the Dublin-Dubai flight by Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31685/07]
- Tourism Industry. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Past success is no guarantee of future performance and we must always be on our guard. The Minister mentioned that there may be a benefit in Aer Lingus's decision in terms of further developing the United States market. However, putting all one's eggs in one basket is not a sensible approach. Moreover, that was never the intention. Aer Lingus deliberately set out to grow the United States...
- Tourism Industry. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: I recognise that these are commercial decisions. However, this State is making a huge commercial decision in spending hundreds of millions of euro under the national development plan on international tourism. There must be some coherence between the money we are spending and, on the one hand, the markets in which it is spent and, on the other, the destinations available to us.
- Tourism Industry. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: However, the growing market is Asia.
- Film Industry Development. (29 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the now critical disadvantage suffered by the Irish film industry [i]vis-Ã-vis[/i] other European countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31686/07]