Results 5,641-5,660 of 5,767 for speaker:Olivia Mitchell
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: The Minister cannot consider it.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I ask the Minister not to engage with the Deputy. He is totally out of order.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: Will the Minister please move amendment No. 10? Recommital is necessary in respect of this amendment.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (2 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons renting out a room or rooms in their home through AirBnB are eligible for the rent-a-room scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26744/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (2 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the rent-a-room scheme to persons renting out a room or rooms in their home through AirBnB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26745/15]
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I welcome the Bill which will make a long-sought change from the use of imprisonment for the failure to pay debts. The Law Reform Commission has long asked for a move away from the punitive to a more coercive approach to debt settlement which the Bill introduces through the attachment of earnings mechanism and deductions from social welfare payments. The Bill is being introduced in the...
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: When it is done by Members of Parliament, people elected to make laws and ensure they are implemented, it is utterly reprehensible. I do not say this lightly. In all my years in this House I have never made it a practice to criticise individuals or the positions they take; I have tried to criticise the policy rather than the person. In a representative democracy, no matter how diverse our...
- Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (7 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: This topical issue is in the names of Deputies Seamus Healy and Mattie McGrath. I understand that they wish to share some of their time with Deputy Lowry.
- Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (7 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Statement of Estimates for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (7 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: There is a high attrition rate.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (7 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if individual health identifiers have been provided to patients accessing health and social care services; and the services that are using individual health identifiers. [27213/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (7 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if individual health identifiers will be used by Health Service Executive staff based in community health centres. [27214/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: Yes, democracy is terrible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I will be the next questioner. I add my words of congratulations to the Minister and departmental officials who have had a difficult time dealing with awful events one after another. They did so not just efficiently but also with great compassion. They did Ireland proud. Many members of the public have remarked on this and the Minister can take some pride in it. I would like to make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: That could be correct. I beg the Senator's pardon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I refer to the issue of SDGs. The Minister has mentioned how crucial the meeting in Addis Ababa will be to their successful conclusion. I am delighted that the Taoiseach will attend the summit in New York, probably underlining how important it will be for the world for the next 15 years and beyond. I have a concern - this issue was also raised with me - about the European response to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: Regardless of what the Senator may say - I was speaking at the time - the result has been the cancellation of the feis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: I understand it was cancelled because members were afraid to travel to Israel. This is not the first cultural event that has had to be cancelled as a result of letters sent by the group to people who intended to travel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: If people want to boycott, that is their business, but boycotts must be voluntary and cannot be the result of intimidation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Olivia Mitchell: May I continue without interruption, please? The Senator will have an opportunity to speak.