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Long-term Care Home (11 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: As four Deputies have joined in tabling this matter, each has one minute.

Welfare of Greyhounds Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Does the Minister have further amendments to the Bill?

Welfare of Greyhounds Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Are they being done after this?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: No.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Amendment No. 31 is consequential on amendment No. 32. Both may be discussed together by agreement.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 341: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 7 April 2011, when he will be in a position to include in legislation the exemption of the clawback charge applying to those who bought pre-2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28766/11]

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: I wish to share time with Deputy Dara Murphy.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome this report and its guiding principles, including primarily the acceptance that those who can pay must pay. This report is not about those people, rather it is about those who absolutely cannot pay. The report also recognises that there is no automatic entitlement to a solution and that all solutions have consequences both for those seeking a solution and those who are required to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (18 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 487: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that Camphill Communities has in operating at 2005 costings and the reduced availability of workers; if he will arrange for the Health Service Executive to undertake the negotiation of a new long-term funding strategy to reflect the new conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (18 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 533: To ask the Minister for Health if the allocated school-leaver funding for a person (details supplied) will be ring-fenced and available to them next year in view of the fact that no suitable place was available to them in the current year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30128/11]

Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: I appreciate the opportunity to raise the issue of genuine confusion about eligibility for JobBridge. I refer, specifically, to the eligibility of young graduates. JobBridge is acknowledged to be an excellent scheme and an ideal opportunity, in a recession, for young people to be eased into the workforce. However, it seems that a large cohort of young graduates are ineligible to...

Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: I appreciate the Minister's response. There is a realisation that the group of people of whom I speak fall between all stools. I am aware of the work placement programme but it is not geared toward graduates. There is a real need for graduate internships. Graduates, particularly in technical or scientific areas, de-skill very quickly if they do not get work opportunities. I am delighted...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason medical expenses involving hair transplant for female patients suffering from alopecia are not allowable for tax relief; if he will consider allowing same for this condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31174/11]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (25 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 359: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to move towards a county-wide franchising system for waste collection rather than the current system which allows for competition between private waste collectors; the rationale behind such a proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30954/11]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (25 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 518: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that funding for bodies facilitating adoption be channelled by the Health Service Executive to accredited adoption services and particularly to the Arc Adoption service as the only accredited inter-country adoption service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30761/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 Oct 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 567: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the ever-expanding numbers being catered for by agencies providing direct services to those with intellectual disability, and that at the same time they have received cuts in funding over each of the past four years, he will ensure, that like last year, they will not be asked to take the same level of cuts as the rest of the health...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (3 Nov 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns amongst Protestant faith schools of the impact on their future sustainability of a further cut in funding in view of the removal in 2009 of the funding which traditionally safeguarded the viability of Protestant schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32558/11]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (8 Nov 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his approach in relation to the current repressive policies against Tibet; if he will call for the introduction of international independent observers in Tibet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32820/11]

Written Answers — Bullying in Schools: Bullying in Schools (8 Nov 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide statistics on the numbers of children experiencing bullying in our schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32821/11]

Written Answers — Bullying in Schools: Bullying in Schools (8 Nov 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide statistics on the number of schools implementing the bullying code of behaviour, as implemented by the Education (Welfare) Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32822/11]