Results 901-920 of 4,073 for speaker:Mary Mitchell O'Connor
- Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Dún Laoghaire has some of the highest house prices in the country and, by inference, some of the biggest mortgages. Some 300,000 people are on a standard variable rate mortgage. Standard variable rates in Ireland are close to double the eurozone average. They cost roughly an extra €1,500 per year for every €100,000 borrowed. In Dún Laoghaire, I estimate the cost to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who are qualified to teach Spanish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13443/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who are qualified to teach German; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13444/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who are qualified to teach French; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13445/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who are qualified to teach Chinese; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13446/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school teachers who are qualified to masters level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13447/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary school teachers who are qualified to masters level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13448/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that are under church patronage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13449/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to help families with the early intervention for children with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13450/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Levels (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to improve the standard of numeracy and literacy here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13451/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (1 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision of her Department to suppress a concessionary post in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, under the delivering equality of opportunity in schools band 2. [13520/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (2 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) who is on a two-year waiting list to see a professor of genetics in Crumlin hospital in Dublin 12 will be funded, through cross-Border funding, to see a geneticist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13626/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Procurement Contracts (15 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 830. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Geological Survey of Ireland recently published a tender for public relations services with a requirement for tenderers to demonstrate a turnover of a minimum of €200,000 per annum for each of the previous three years by way of audited accounts or similar when most small and medium-sized...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 690. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of LUAS users at the Lehaunstown, County Dublin stop, on a daily and weekly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15406/15]
- Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Last night, the Minister of State, Deputy English, said that Irish businesses need to start to survive and scale up. The principal complaint I receive from self-employed traders and small business owners relates to access to credit. How can they start, never mind survive and scale up, without the finance to do so? Over 90% of small businesses are dependent on traditional methods of loans...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fuel Prices (22 Apr 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason petrol prices in recent months have not properly decreased, in line with the drop in the price of fuel oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15880/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Regulations (7 May 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority objected to the National University of Ireland Dublin providing additional parking spaces on campus, to meet the growing demand for parking spaces, which has consequently caused great issues along surrounding roads, particularly Woodbine Road; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (7 May 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken, in view of the serious lack of parking spaces, to incentivise students attending the National University of Ireland Dublin campus to use public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17966/15]
- Order of Business (12 May 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: In the Roads Bill there is provision for the drug-testing of drivers. When does the Taoiseach expect that Bill to be enacted? When will the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill be enacted? The heads of the Bill were published on 27 November 2014 and the Bill is urgently needed as it criminalises the purchase of sex and online child exploitation.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: We do not need a survey