Results 281-300 of 5,767 for speaker:Olivia Mitchell

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Council (10 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the newly established Pensions Council will be monitoring the implementation of the recommendations in the report on pension charges 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5971/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the gross under provision of primary school places in the Goatstown area, Dublin 14, where the local schools application for September 2015 is four times the potential intake; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5788/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (10 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond positively to correspondence from eight schools (details supplied) who seek to have the catchment area for the new Educate Together secondary school expanded to reflect the coherence of the area between the county boundary and the motorway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5942/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Tax Yield (10 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 561. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the restrictions in terms of categories of spending by local authorities, that have been applied to moneys raised from local property tax; the minimum or maximum spending caps that have been applied to the various spending categories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5542/15]

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I have said on the record on many occasions inside and outside the Chamber that I want to see in legislation a measure that would provide a legal framework for the termination of cases of fatal foetal abnormality. I would go further by allowing for terminations in cases where there is a severe threat to the ongoing health of the mother, and indeed in cases of rape and incest. I realise that...

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: Stop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: We will be in touch with him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: Chairman, my apologies too. I have a commission meeting at 3 p.m. but I will return afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I will be brief. I apologise, as I had to leave to attend another meeting, but I did hear part of the ambassador’s presentation. I welcome her and thank her for coming. I am probably echoing the concerns raised by other speakers about what has been going on in Nigeria for some time. Reference has been made to the massacres, the transgender issue, which was mentioned by Senator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank the ambassador for her response. She makes a good defence of much that is happening in Nigeria and I do not suggest that any of this lies at her door. I realise she is a defender of women and of human rights but to say that this is the law in Nigeria is not an excuse for what is happening to gay people in Nigeria and does not absolve the President and Government of any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I apologise. I misunderstood the ambassador in that case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I do understand that the girls were distributed, as the ambassador says. What happens now that there is co-operation? If one little girl was taken in Ireland we would move heaven and earth to return her to her family. How many of the 200 girls taken from their families have been returned? Has the Government done anything to return any of those girls?

Topical Issue Matters (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to discuss concerns raised by various Irish stakeholders regarding the investor State dispute settlements clause, potential job losses here and in the EU, and other related matters; (2)...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: Is a copy of the Minister's speech available? I will wait a moment or two for that to be distributed.

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: Fair enough. I thank the Deputy.

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: None of us were.

Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: The next speaker is Deputy Neville. Sorry, I call the Minister to reply.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 Jan 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 17 September 2014, if the review of personal pension vehicles has taken place; if the issue of extending the approved retirement fund options to holders of buy-out bonds derived from defined benefit schemes has been examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3477/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (27 Jan 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will request of the Companies Registration Office to remove the inappropriate job description, married woman, from the list of occupations on the online form when registering online as a director of a company or charity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3476/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jan 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 which is planned to progress to construction in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3390/15]