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- Order of Business (25 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: That is nice.
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (25 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to propose a referendum on blasphemy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13192/10]
- Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (25 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if discussions have taken place with the British authorities regarding the removal of barriers to access for tourists to markets both here and in the UK. [8120/10]
- Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: It is twice the bail-out of Anglo alone.
- Order of Business (30 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Has the Taoiseach any other options for us?
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: There is no end to this.
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: What about a bad bank?
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: It is considerably large.
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (30 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide structured occupational therapy and or speech and language therapy for the pupils of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13597/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 355: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of social contributions that have been accumulated in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16; if they will be entitled to the contributory State pension when they turn 66 in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13898/10]
- Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism whether she has received representations from tourism operators on the impact that contraction in car rental supply will have on the tourism industry in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14141/10]
- Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: I wish the Minister well on her first questions here in her new Ministry. I realise that she is at least partly familiar with this problem, which has arisen, I suppose, as a result of a treble whammy - the scrappage scheme, the general recession and the lack of credit in the economy. She stated she would like the industry to refrain from putting up prices. The reality is most of them will...
- Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: I realise there is no easy solution and no matter what the Minister does, it will cost money. It seems to me this is not the year to have the treble whammy, certainly not to withdraw an advantage that the industry had for the same reason, lack of supply, since the early 1990s. I accept what the Minister stated about automatic transmission and lower emission cars. The trouble is that the...
- Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: It might not be, given the reputational damage.
- Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if she has received a report from the Irish Sports Council regarding the court settlement involving Athletics Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13963/10]
- Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: I am surprised the Minister has not received the report. This is a difficult situation and has been the subject of court action, which causes great concern. A great portion of â¬1 million, which should have gone to sports, has gone into lawyers' pockets. It seems utterly needless that the dispute got to this point and if Just Sport Ireland had been used at a much earlier stage, it would...
- Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Athletics Ireland is the best funded of the governing bodies outside the three big sports. The amount wasted in this case is twice the budget for our elite athletes. They feel they have suffered as a result of this money being spent in this way. Will the Minister consider it a requirement of governing bodies in receipt of public funding to have independent directors? One of the reasons...
- Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: That is precisely the reason the report needs to be independent.
- Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: That all sounds great. I welcome the fact the Minister recognised the need for interaction between Departments and the various bodies responsible for tourism because it is a very fragmented industry in every sense, in terms of the industry itself and the bodies which look after it. I could stay here all day and discuss the various areas in which other bodies are impinging on our efforts to...
- Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: I did not suggest access to the sites should be free. They should be commercial and those running them should not behave like hospital administrators when they run out of money by putting up prices and closing wards. That is what the OPW did when its budgets were cut. If the operation of the sites was tendered, the OPW could keep the money and it would have a genuine incentive to encourage...