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Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (20 Apr 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 651: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the fact that companies are not assessed for PRSI on employees' pension contributions, there is any obligation on such companies to pass on the PRSI saving of 10.75%; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that not to do so results in the company gaining from an employees' pension; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Responsibilities: Departmental Responsibilities (1 Apr 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the responsibilities his Department now holds in the areas of equality, human rights and integration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14179/10]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (1 Apr 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number, location and funding allocated to projects under the sports capital programme in 2006, 2007 and 2008 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14325/10]

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in employment that will be affected by the increase in the amount of full rate contributions required for a contributory State pension which commences on 6 April 2012; the number of persons who under current circumstances will be entitled to a full contributory State pension but will no longer qualify for...

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: As a parent, I know only too well the high price people with special needs pay in later years if, as children, they are denied access to education, therapy and treatment. Society pays a price also because, when children are deprived of an opportunity to maximise their potential, they end up in a range of institutional care situations, including prison, unfortunately. If they do not end up...

Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Athletics Ireland is the best funded of the governing bodies outside the three big sports. The amount wasted in this case is twice the budget for our elite athletes. They feel they have suffered as a result of this money being spent in this way. Will the Minister consider it a requirement of governing bodies in receipt of public funding to have independent directors? One of the reasons...

Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: That is precisely the reason the report needs to be independent.

Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: That all sounds great. I welcome the fact the Minister recognised the need for interaction between Departments and the various bodies responsible for tourism because it is a very fragmented industry in every sense, in terms of the industry itself and the bodies which look after it. I could stay here all day and discuss the various areas in which other bodies are impinging on our efforts to...

Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: I did not suggest access to the sites should be free. They should be commercial and those running them should not behave like hospital administrators when they run out of money by putting up prices and closing wards. That is what the OPW did when its budgets were cut. If the operation of the sites was tendered, the OPW could keep the money and it would have a genuine incentive to encourage...

National Opera Company. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Nothing will happen before next month. What is planned for the overall body? There is general welcome for a new national opera company. Will the company be a cultural institution? Will it be funded directly by the Department rather than the Arts Council, which funds the existing companies? What will be the new company's terms of reference? Will the debt of Opera Ireland be cleared...

National Opera Company. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Will it be a cultural institution?

Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism whether she has received representations from tourism operators on the impact that contraction in car rental supply will have on the tourism industry in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14141/10]

Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: I wish the Minister well on her first questions here in her new Ministry. I realise that she is at least partly familiar with this problem, which has arisen, I suppose, as a result of a treble whammy - the scrappage scheme, the general recession and the lack of credit in the economy. She stated she would like the industry to refrain from putting up prices. The reality is most of them will...

Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: I realise there is no easy solution and no matter what the Minister does, it will cost money. It seems to me this is not the year to have the treble whammy, certainly not to withdraw an advantage that the industry had for the same reason, lack of supply, since the early 1990s. I accept what the Minister stated about automatic transmission and lower emission cars. The trouble is that the...

Tourism Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: It might not be, given the reputational damage.

Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if she has received a report from the Irish Sports Council regarding the court settlement involving Athletics Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13963/10]

Irish Sports Council. (31 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: I am surprised the Minister has not received the report. This is a difficult situation and has been the subject of court action, which causes great concern. A great portion of €1 million, which should have gone to sports, has gone into lawyers' pockets. It seems utterly needless that the dispute got to this point and if Just Sport Ireland had been used at a much earlier stage, it would...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (30 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide structured occupational therapy and or speech and language therapy for the pupils of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13597/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 355: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of social contributions that have been accumulated in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16; if they will be entitled to the contributory State pension when they turn 66 in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13898/10]

Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: There is no end to this.