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- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 286: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is aware that newspaper companies generate a high volume of waste; if he has plans to include this sector in future waste packaging legislation in the short-term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31614/07]
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 287: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce internal recycling facilities given that the majority of waste produced in Ireland has to be exported in order to be recycled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31615/07]
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 289: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to introduce further categorisation of waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31617/07]
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: The Taoiseach is joking. Is he being serious?
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: It also means taking responsibility.
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: He has changed his mind since.
- Telecommunications Services. (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether Ireland's broadband infrastructure, connectivity and bandwidth, as indicated in recent OECD surveys, is limiting Ireland's competitiveness and economic progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31271/07]
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: I reiterate the point made by my colleague, Deputy Upton. No questions are being answered by the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism. Who is responsible for rejecting questions that are clearly related to the Minister's brief? Is the Minister responsible for anything?
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: What is the other way?
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Bring it on.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 517: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when construction will commence for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 in view of the fact that tenders have been received and a contractor chosen; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that if this project is not sanctioned by the end of November 2007, the tendering process will have to recommence and that the children...
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Did the Minister not know that?
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: So now it is our fault?
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Why does the Minister believe it now?
- Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: I welcome the Bill, as far as it goes and as late as it is. There has been significant pressure from a variety of sources to bring the Bill to the House, as alluded to by the Minister of State. The greatest pressure came from the rightful contention of the nascent competitors in the market that VHI had an unfair advantage in not being required to hold the same level of reserves as was...
- Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: I have been a member most of my life and children and family have also been members. I intend to stay with it. However, I am in favour of competition and the customers of VHI deserve the kind of service they can get in a competitive environment, as do other competitors. It is in all our interests to ensure we do everything to create a level playing pitch. We should not let the genie out...
- Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (22 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has applied to the EU under revised EU legislation to have the age limit for compulsory BSE testing raised from its current level of 30 months. [30038/07]
- Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (22 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the value for money review of the TB eradication scheme has been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30037/07]
- Schools Building Projects. (21 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: I appreciate the opportunity to raise this matter and I thank the Minister for attending to reply. A decision by the building unit on a school building for Gaelscoil Thaobh na Coille is critical if a repeat of the entire tendering process is to be avoided. The gaelscoil is situated in an area that has experienced significant population growth over the past 15 years and the growth rate has...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (21 Nov 2007)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of radiologists employed by the Health Service Executive; the number of radiologists with an expertise in breast cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30003/07]