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Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: Deputy McGrath has the floor.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I understand the Minister for Justice and Equality is sharing time with Deputies Áine Collins, Ciarán Lynch, Anthony Lawlor and Heather Humphreys. The Minister has 15 minutes. I ask him to move the amendment.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: The Deputy is eating into the time of other Members.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: As the Minister, Deputy Shatter, overran his time, I propose that the remaining three speakers be limited to three minutes to avoid the last speaker being given no time.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: Deputy Lynch is next and may take his four minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to publish the report on the consultation on the strategy plan on forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15066/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Tobacco Control Measures (26 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of the 2000 plus respondents to the consultation on a proposal for an EU Directive on the Tobacco Products Directive that were for or against the changes proposed by the EU Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14946/13]

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is envisaged that Ireland may soon agree a double taxation agreement with Taiwan in view of the fact that many of our trading partners from both the EU and elsewhere have already done so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15421/13]

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will respond positively to the invitation from the new EU ambassador to Taiwan to afford occasional space to the Irish ambassador to Tokyo in the EU offices in Taiwan to facilitate Irish attendance at the regular trade meetings held there by countries who have trade and diplomatic missions in the country; and if he will...

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I am a little disappointed, in respect of Question No. 9, that there is no opportunity to allow our ambassador to avail of the opportunity being afforded to those EU member states that have diplomatic or trade missions in Taiwan. Our relationship with mainland China is precisely the same as those of the other EU countries, so I am unsure why this is felt to be a barrier to having an...

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome our recognition of Taiwan as an economic and commercial entity. I ask the Minister of State to ensure we push the potential of this agreement to its limit.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the impact the tax change on maternity benefit will have on the maternity benefit of women who receive no top up from the employer and are dependent solely on statutory maternity benefit. [16167/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Timetable (16 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the new implications of the two-pack regulations, he will indicate the date in September or October on which the draft budget will be published; if this draft budget will be debated and/or voted on by the Oireachtas; if the final budget and Finance Bill will pass through the Houses of the Oireachtas in early December 2013 and February 2014...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Position of LGBTI People in Uganda: Discussion (17 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank Ms Nabagesera for her presentation. I listened very carefully to what she said and she answered every possible question, so I will not ask her another one. I echo what my colleague said earlier. Having listened to everything, I am as perplexed and depressed as can be because I still do not know what is driving this - the why, where and what. Usually, there is an explanation for...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I have two queries. Will the Tánaiste clarify whether an agreement, once ratified by Ireland, comes into force in advance of all of the EU countries ratifying it or remains in abeyance until everybody has ratified it? The Chairman raised the issue of Indonesia. I am interested in that country. When I visited two years ago, there was the sense of a country really emerging, with an...

Topical Issue Debate: Banking Sector Remuneration (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: The first matter is in the names of Deputies Kevin Humphreys, Robert Dowds, Anne Ferris, Ann Phelan and Arthur Spring. The Deputies have two minutes each to make an initial statement.

Topical Issue Debate: Fish Farming (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: May I interrupt? The time is up and the Minister seems to have a lot more to say. Will he summarise what remains?

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Message from Select Sub-Committee (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the service of the year ended 31 December 2013: Votes 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: 498. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible, under the Personal Insolvency Act, to include other professions such as financial brokers to act as personal insolvency practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18756/13]

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: After five years of budgetary adjustments, it is inevitable we all feel we have reached the end of our tether, that we have had enough and that we cannot take any more. However, it would be tragic, when it seems we may be over the worst and on the cusp of recovery, to jeopardise it all and devalue the sacrifices that have been made by every section of society over the past five years, with...