Results 4,741-4,760 of 5,767 for speaker:Olivia Mitchell
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Oct 2012) Olivia Mitchell: I am having a little difficulty getting my head around the matter. After a quick perusal, it seems that if changes were made in respect of programme A, it would seriously impair our engagement with Asia. Change in respect of the second programme would have serious consequences for recipient organisations. In respect of programme C, the funds are already oversubscribed. With regard to the...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Oct 2012) Olivia Mitchell: I am very pleased to hear change is afoot in respect of passports. I also wish to note my appreciation of the great help I always have received - particularly this summer when it appears as though very many people forgot to check their passports. Certainly, where help could be given it was, which I appreciate. However, there has been slippage in the time regarding the general queueing at...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Oct 2012) Olivia Mitchell: I am not sure if I am reading this correctly. The revised allocation for this year is €514 million and the allocation under subhead E is €524 million. Does this indicate that the allocation is increasing? If that is so, why is the ratio of ODA to GNP reducing? Is GNP increasing at such a rate that the ratio is dropping? Obviously, it is great if the amount is increasing but...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Oct 2012) Olivia Mitchell: I am not sure if that is a valid question.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Oct 2012) Olivia Mitchell: Are we protecting an optimistic revision?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: Next week.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: There is an amendment for the Government.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: Less of the sporting analogy, please.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Investor Compensation Company Limited (16 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to requests for further compensation of those who set up a private pension and indirectly invested in a company now in liquidation (details supplied) in view of the fact that the Central Bank of Ireland apparently began monitoring the company from 2009 and the losses appear to have occurred after that date; if any other avenues of...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Airport Security (17 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Irish passports now being issued meet the criteria required to use the automatic border control machines in use in some countries including Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45339/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Numbers (17 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her statement in Dáil Éireann (details supplied) that she would seek to make graduate architects eligible for the Jobbridge scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45115/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (17 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Health if he would respond to reports from pregnant women that public hospitals and particularly a hospital (details supplied) in County Wexfrod are still not facilitating the procurement of their cord blood despite him having previously stated that this apparent reluctance among hospitals should be addressed by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: How would the Deputy know?
- Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. It could hardly be more crucial and discussion on it could not be more timely as we approach a budget with a health bill that takes up 27% of all Government expenditure, costing a massive €13 billion, with medicines now comprising almost €2 billion. It must be a major element of any cost-containment exercise. It is...
- Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: I am sure he is already finding out how arcane the system and procedure for setting the prices of medicines is, given that it is influenced by so many factors and interests. These include factors as diverse as wholesaler stocks at any time of the year and significantly - something mentioned by others - the presence in Ireland of so many drug manufacturers' research and development, and...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry Issues (18 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the progress that he has made in improving air access to Ireland from North America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45063/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Project (18 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when work on the construction of the LUAS BXD project will commence and conclude; if he will outline the measures he has taken to ensure that disruption to businesses is kept to a minimum during the lifetime of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45064/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Job Assist Scheme Eligibility (18 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons receiving illness benefit do not qualify for revenue job assistance until they are ill for 18 months or more while those unemployed or receiving jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance, one parent family, disability allowance, blind pension or invalidity pension qualify after 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45440/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Noxious Weeds (23 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in place to ensure compliance in the more rural parts of south Dublin with the Noxious Weed Act 1936 in view of the fact that there are reports of a proliferation of ragwort in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45926/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Noxious Weeds (23 Oct 2012)
Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in place to ensure compliance in the more rural parts of south Dublin with the Noxious Weed Act 1936 in view of the fact that there are reports of a proliferation of ragwort in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45926/12]