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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Concern (8 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: So is everybody.

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important legislation that deals with recording the defining moments of our lives, our births, marriages and deaths - the records that establish our position and status within the State, and our relationship to one and another and to the State as citizens. I am particularly interested in the provision requiring the registration of father's names on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (14 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if it is his Department or the Health Service Executive who will carry forward planned proposals to reduce, through mergers, the number of disability service providers; and if he will report on the progress. [38849/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (14 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 318. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedure for amending the scheme under the Pyrite Resolution Act to include homeowners living in the council area of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, which is not included in the eligibility criteria but where category 2 damage consistent with pyrite heave has been identified; and if he will advise on the way concerned...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: In the three minutes I have to speak it is not possible to comment in detail on any or all of the elements of the budget. However, having listened yesterday to the litany from the Opposition of all the spending measures that were not included in it, I thought it was important to say something about what it was actually about. The saddest day for the country and me personally was the day it...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (15 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has concluded its reflection on the recommendations of the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare and the findings of the 2010 actuarial review regarding extending social insurance for the self-employed now that our budgetary and fiscal situation has improved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39385/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Rate (15 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 15% reduction which local authorities are permitted to apply to property taxes collected in their area is a once-off event or, alternatively, if it is envisaged that the 15% reduction can be applied every year, should local authorities so wish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/14]

Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: The next slot belongs to the Technical Group and the next speaker is Deputy Finian McGrath who I understand wishes to share time with Deputy Catherine Murphy and Deputy Shane Ross. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: The Deputy should not take his colleagues' time to do so.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: That is enough.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (22 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if the DIRT refund for first time buyers is restricted to DIRT paid post 14 October 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40561/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Colombia: ICTU (22 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I have not visited Colombia, but I have read about the sad events there. The conflict in Colombia has been ongoing for 60 years and the country is highly militarised and unstable and guerrilla groups continue to operate. One of our guests indicated that it was one of the most dangerous places in which to be a trade unionist. With the possible exception of Congo, it is definitely the most...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: The next issue will be raised by Deputies Mattie McGrath, John O'Mahony and Denis Naughten.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Minister of State. The next Topical Issue is to be raised by Deputy Dan Neville on the need for a bypass at Adare, County Limerick. Is the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, taking this matter?

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: Deputy Kathleen Lynch is a senior Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 743. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the growing waiting lists for the allocation of funding for the fair deal scheme and the financial hardship it is causing families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41811/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 875. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Trinity College, Dublin is extending four-year degree courses to five years, describing the last year as a postgraduate year even though said year is necessary for accreditation with professional bodies; if the Student Universal Support Ireland grant will take this change into consideration and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: Freight Transport Association Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to sit in on this committee as I am not a member and for giving me the opportunity to say something. Although I am not a member of the committee and I am far from an expert on this area, I have been tracking the sequence of events that led to the choosing of Eircode for a number of years. I have spoken to many people who have concerns about it. It seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: Freight Transport Association Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: My last question is whether any of the witnesses met Capita. The reply to my parliamentary question states it was explained to the witnesses why it was not feasible. I wonder why it is not feasible in Ireland when it is feasible everywhere else.

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: It is hard to believe that only three weeks ago on the eve of the budget the newspapers were full of concern that there might be a giveaway budget that could jeopardise the national recovery or that not enough would be given away. In the event, every single taxpayer and welfare recipient will be better off as a result of this budget, albeit by a modest amount. It is not the amount that is...