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Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: How will we know?

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (24 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on proposals from a group (details supplied) in respect of VAT changes to a margins system with compensation for future inability to claim back VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11044/09]

Written Answers — Tourism Promotion: Tourism Promotion (24 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 604: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the funding available to support the Cultural Tourism Initiative in 2009; the way this funding will be distributed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10953/09]

Written Answers — Tourism Promotion: Tourism Promotion (24 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 605: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if there is a sports tourism initiative in place; if so, the level of funding that has been set aside to develop this aspect of the tourism market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10954/09]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (24 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 795: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a civil servant retiring at 60 years of age after 41 years' service must sign on monthly to maintain their spouses' pension entitlements should they predecease them; her views on whether this requirement impinges significantly on the retired person's freedom of movement and is unnecessarily bureaucratic; and if she...

Pre-Budget Statements (24 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: If he bothers.

Pre-Budget Statements (24 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: If it were not so serious, it would be laughable to listen to one Government speaker after another ask us to put party politics behind us and to support their budget. They did not give us any information. When my colleague Deputy Bruton wrote to the Minister asking for information in order that we could make helpful suggestions on the budget, he did not even get the courtesy of a reply,...

Pre-Budget Statements (24 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: It is disrespect to the House.

Written Answers — Electricity Grid: Electricity Grid (12 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the motion of the undergrounding of the electricity grid passed at the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis. [10458/09]

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (11 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the annual subsidy to the National Aquatic Centre in each full year since it reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10358/09]

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: We will tell the Government but the Government will not tell us.

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (10 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the many prospective adoptive parents who have selected Russia as their preferred country for adoption and the 1 May 2009 expiry date of the bilateral adoption agreement with Russia, she will ensure that an interim agreement is in place pending any amendment required under the Hague Convention; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (10 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 299: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to plans to abolish the faculty of tourism and food at Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Street; his views on the implications for tourism of the fragmentation of this vital body of knowledge; if he has received representations from the industry in respect of this proposal; and if he...

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (10 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 560: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to plans to abolish the faculty of tourism and food at Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Street; his views on the fragmentation of this vital body of knowledge; if he has received representations in respect of this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10001/09]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (3 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport the measures he will take in respect of the bonding arrangements for travel agents here based on the recommendations of the aviation commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8460/09]

Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009: Second Stage (3 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Despite the evident lack of interest in this legislation, in many respects it is little short of cataclysmic. We would regard it as such in other times, although at this stage we may consider we have seen it all and cannot be shocked further. This is another sacred cow, self-evident truth and core principle being turned on its head and perhaps jettisoned altogether. I refer to the pensions...

Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009: Second Stage (3 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Are there any other pots into which the Minister could dip?

Arts Funding. (3 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: I agree with the Minister. The importance of the arts goes beyond the importance of the jobs — important as they are. The only good news stories coming out of Ireland in the past six months have been from the arts, including the Oscar awards and the achievements of our writers, which is of great value to Ireland. While it is great that we now have so many regional arts venues, as the...

Tourism Industry. (3 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome that the Minister is having those meetings because I believe a large part of the future of tourism lies in the cultural area as all the research indicates. I was surprised that so many bodies were involved which makes me wonder whether this area is so fragmented that it is inefficient. In addition I was surprised at the omission of others who would have had a big input into that,...

Tourism Industry. (3 Mar 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: I have previously raised the role of the OPW with the Minister. It must recognise that we are all in this together and that these facilities must be made available. One of my colleagues recently went to visit Kilmainham with a bus load of people and was told — owing to the cutbacks I presume — that they would need to wait an hour and a half for a tour with the result that 40 people got...