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- Tourism Industry. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: I would ask a brief question if I could remember it. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has put it out of my head. If bad hotels are to go the wall, the Bacon report suggested that the clawback be dropped. However, I am against that suggestion. We gave people money to get into the business and now we are giving them money to get out of it. Bad hotels should fail if good hotels are to survive....
- Tourism Industry. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Exactly.
- Tourism Industry. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Minister.
- Tax Code. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received new guidelines from the Arts Council relating to the assessment of the artistic merits of works submitted for qualification under the artists tax exemption scheme; his views on those guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8344/10]
- Tax Code. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: I am sure the Minister knows that what motivated me to table this question was the recent securing of tax exemption status by the Minister's former leader and our former Taoiseach for his autobiography. When I raised this issue almost two years ago, on foot of a sports celebrity having secured tax exemption status, the Minister told me that new guidelines were being drawn up. It is now...
- Tax Code. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: By no stretch of the imagination could this work be considered a work that is cultural and certainly it could not be considered artistic, where the bar is even higher. I am aware that the tax exemption legislation has changed and a cap on income in that respect has been introduced. The granting of tax exemption status in this case undermines this measure for people who genuinely deserve it....
- Tax Code. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: No.
- Tax Code. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Is the Arts Council not about getting as close to perfection as possible? I take the point that young lads want to read about sports but neither Ronaldo nor Packie Bonner needs a tax incentive to write a book. That is not the purpose of the tax incentive, which is to help emerging and young artists. Deputy Bertie Ahern is not one of those and neither is Ronaldo. Does the Minister see the...
- Tourism Industry. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: They do not make the charge.
- Tourism Industry. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is wrong.
- Tourism Industry. (17 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: The emerging markets do as a whole.
- Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (16 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department officials have made representations to Anglo Irish Bank on behalf of specific borrowers or other customers of the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7845/10]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (16 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue earned from the departure tax in each month since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7987/10]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical procedure appointment will be provided in respect a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7711/10]
- Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (16 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 335: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda central vetting unit will process an application in respect a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7828/10]
- Order of Business (Resumed). (16 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: What time is that?
- Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (11 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is seeking to re-engage with the trade union on implementing a reform plan for the health service which was agreed in principle in December 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6928/10]
- Written Answers — Travel Trade Sector: Travel Trade Sector (10 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the number of closures of travel agent and tour operator businesses and of the implications that this has for inward tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47644/09]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (9 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide the funding necessary to allow persons (details supplied) in Dublin 16 to move to insulin pump therapy through Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6058/10]
- Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (9 Feb 2010)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the drugs repayment scheme operates on a monthly basis or on the basis of 28 days; and the reason some pharmacists supply medicines for 28 days and others operate a 30 day system. [6127/10]