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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (25 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: 212. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost per patient for the supply of Kalydeco, the cystic fibrosis drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19529/13]

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: After five years of budgetary adjustments, it is inevitable we all feel we have reached the end of our tether, that we have had enough and that we cannot take any more. However, it would be tragic, when it seems we may be over the worst and on the cusp of recovery, to jeopardise it all and devalue the sacrifices that have been made by every section of society over the past five years, with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Arms Trade Treaty: Discussion (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: Senator Walsh should make that argument somewhere else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I completely understand the motivation behind Senator Walsh's motion and I have great sympathy with it, but I would prefer Deputy Durkan's motion, which makes our point in the way we need to make it but does not unnecessarily jeopardise very fragile negotiations that are going on about inter-country adoption. I agree with Deputy Walsh that we should not allow ourselves to be intimidated and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues: Discussion with Centre for Global Development and GOAL (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I reiterate the remarks of Deputy Brendan Smith. I really enjoyed the presentations which are very interesting. Like Deputy Smith, I had no idea that this work was under way down in Cork but I suppose there are a lot of things going on in Cork that we do not know about. I was struck by how practical the project is. My heart was beginning to race when that doll was not responding in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues: Discussion with Centre for Global Development and GOAL (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: They may have mobile phones but the man was carrying it like it was a badge. The woman was carrying the week's fuel on her head.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been taken to continue to increase the pupil teacher ratio in fee paying schools until it reaches 28:1 being the option included in the McCarthy report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19346/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the permanent school building in respect of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19347/13]

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Message from Select Sub-Committee (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the service of the year ended 31 December 2013: Votes 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19.

Topical Issue Debate: Fish Farming (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: May I interrupt? The time is up and the Minister seems to have a lot more to say. Will he summarise what remains?

Topical Issue Debate: Banking Sector Remuneration (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: The first matter is in the names of Deputies Kevin Humphreys, Robert Dowds, Anne Ferris, Ann Phelan and Arthur Spring. The Deputies have two minutes each to make an initial statement.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (23 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: 498. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible, under the Personal Insolvency Act, to include other professions such as financial brokers to act as personal insolvency practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18756/13]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I have two queries. Will the Tánaiste clarify whether an agreement, once ratified by Ireland, comes into force in advance of all of the EU countries ratifying it or remains in abeyance until everybody has ratified it? The Chairman raised the issue of Indonesia. I am interested in that country. When I visited two years ago, there was the sense of a country really emerging, with an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Position of LGBTI People in Uganda: Discussion (17 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank Ms Nabagesera for her presentation. I listened very carefully to what she said and she answered every possible question, so I will not ask her another one. I echo what my colleague said earlier. Having listened to everything, I am as perplexed and depressed as can be because I still do not know what is driving this - the why, where and what. Usually, there is an explanation for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the impact the tax change on maternity benefit will have on the maternity benefit of women who receive no top up from the employer and are dependent solely on statutory maternity benefit. [16167/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Timetable (16 Apr 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the new implications of the two-pack regulations, he will indicate the date in September or October on which the draft budget will be published; if this draft budget will be debated and/or voted on by the Oireachtas; if the final budget and Finance Bill will pass through the Houses of the Oireachtas in early December 2013 and February 2014...

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome our recognition of Taiwan as an economic and commercial entity. I ask the Minister of State to ensure we push the potential of this agreement to its limit.

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: I am a little disappointed, in respect of Question No. 9, that there is no opportunity to allow our ambassador to avail of the opportunity being afforded to those EU member states that have diplomatic or trade missions in Taiwan. Our relationship with mainland China is precisely the same as those of the other EU countries, so I am unsure why this is felt to be a barrier to having an...

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is envisaged that Ireland may soon agree a double taxation agreement with Taiwan in view of the fact that many of our trading partners from both the EU and elsewhere have already done so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15421/13]

Other Questions: International Agreements (28 Mar 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will respond positively to the invitation from the new EU ambassador to Taiwan to afford occasional space to the Irish ambassador to Tokyo in the EU offices in Taiwan to facilitate Irish attendance at the regular trade meetings held there by countries who have trade and diplomatic missions in the country; and if he will...