Results 5,461-5,480 of 5,767 for speaker:Olivia Mitchell
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Association Agreements: Motions (21 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I wish to raise a crisis issue of which the Minister is probably aware. This morning, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan and I met the Dublin representative of Concern to discuss the flooding in coastal Mozambique and southern Malawi, which are both programme countries, as the Minister knows. Approximately 200,000 people are now completely homeless and have lost everything. GOAL and Concern are...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Association Agreements: Motions (21 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: No. I do not expect it.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Association Agreements: Motions (21 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Chairman for that.
- Topical Issue Debate: Overseas Development Aid (22 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I am grateful to have this topical issue chosen today and I thank the Minister for coming into the Chamber to participate personally in the short debate. I have just come from Dublin Castle, where the European Year of Development was launched at the Dóchas conference by the President. I tabled this matter today to coincide with that event because I am conscious that often, when one has...
- Topical Issue Debate: Overseas Development Aid (22 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Minister for his reply and the positive news that Dóchas is to drive the action plan for the year. I again reiterate how important it is that we achieve ambitious post-millennium goals. I know that our ambassador is playing a key role in this regard in terms of driving this deal forward and getting buy-in for it from world leaders. I know also that the Minister will use...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 17 September 2014, if the review of personal pension vehicles has taken place; if the issue of extending the approved retirement fund options to holders of buy-out bonds derived from defined benefit schemes has been examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3477/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (27 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will request of the Companies Registration Office to remove the inappropriate job description, married woman, from the list of occupations on the online form when registering online as a director of a company or charity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3476/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 which is planned to progress to construction in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3390/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that offers of places to the only new autism spectrum disorder classes in the Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown area, County Dublin are being restricted due to the school’s sibling and religious entry criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3493/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Jan 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to increase the number of autism spectrum disorder places in mainstream secondary schools in south Dublin in view of the disparity between the number of places available at primary and secondary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3494/15]
- Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: The next speaker is Deputy Neville. Sorry, I call the Minister to reply.
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: Is a copy of the Minister's speech available? I will wait a moment or two for that to be distributed.
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: Fair enough. I thank the Deputy.
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: None of us were.
- Topical Issue Matters (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to discuss concerns raised by various Irish stakeholders regarding the investor State dispute settlements clause, potential job losses here and in the EU, and other related matters; (2)...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: We will be in touch with him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: Chairman, my apologies too. I have a commission meeting at 3 p.m. but I will return afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I will be brief. I apologise, as I had to leave to attend another meeting, but I did hear part of the ambassador’s presentation. I welcome her and thank her for coming. I am probably echoing the concerns raised by other speakers about what has been going on in Nigeria for some time. Reference has been made to the massacres, the transgender issue, which was mentioned by Senator...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I thank the ambassador for her response. She makes a good defence of much that is happening in Nigeria and I do not suggest that any of this lies at her door. I realise she is a defender of women and of human rights but to say that this is the law in Nigeria is not an excuse for what is happening to gay people in Nigeria and does not absolve the President and Government of any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria (4 Feb 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I apologise. I misunderstood the ambassador in that case.