Results 321-340 of 4,073 for speaker:Mary Mitchell O'Connor

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting time for Garda vetting when the person in question has received clearance in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7299/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting time for Garda vetting when the person in question has received clearance in the past 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7300/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting time for Garda vetting when the person in question has received clearance in the past 24 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7301/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the number of agencies that are working in the area of suicide prevention and or awareness here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health the number of agencies working in the area of suicide prevention and or awareness are in receipt of Exchequer funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7286/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health if the existence of hundreds of suicide related organisations is a reflection of the lack of the implementation of a comprehensive, national prevention programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7290/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Bereavement Support (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the number of agencies that are working in the area of suicide bereavement care here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7285/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Bereavement Support (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health the number of agencies working in the area of suicide bereavement care which are in receipt of Exchequer funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular format, the total sum that was spent by his Department each and every year since and including 2008 on suicide prevention and or awareness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7288/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Bereavement Support (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular format, the total sum that was spent by his Department each and every year since and including 2008 on suicide bereavement care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7289/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 96 actions in the ten year National Strategy for Action on Suicide Prevention, which is due to end in 2014, that have been implemented as specified in the strategy document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7291/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health if the promised €35 million investment in mental health services was delivered on in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7292/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff appointed to mental health services due to increased investment in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7293/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of tourists that visited this country arising from the visits of cruise ships to ports here in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the number of projected visitors for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7294/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or the tourist bodies have undertaken any assessment of the tourism potential offered by the visits of cruise vessels to ports here; his plans to promote further development of this tourist market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7295/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Port Facilities (12 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the need to ensure the provision of facilities in ports here to cater for the next generation of cruise ships, those of more than 338 meters in length, with a draft of 8.6 meters, in view of the growing importance in the cruise business of vessels of this size; if he intends to take any action to promote...

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Everyone needs a hero; every country needs a hero; every government needs a hero. Last week the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, filled those boots. I do not choose the noun lightly. In fact, I did not choose it at all. "Hero" was chosen by a number of journalists who wrote articles regarding last week's events. Professor Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank, Ministers and Civil...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to tackle overcrowding and the use of trolleys in the accident and emergency department in St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, and the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7558/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the experts. The leaders look great. I love the seven-point plan and I am trying to mull over it. Can the medical witnesses comment on birth weight? People say that it is genetic and that they cannot lose weight. With regard to the psychologists, I come from a teaching background and always found it very difficult to talk about weight in a classroom because of the possibility of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My question relates to genetics.