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Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: In the three minutes I have to speak it is not possible to comment in detail on any or all of the elements of the budget. However, having listened yesterday to the litany from the Opposition of all the spending measures that were not included in it, I thought it was important to say something about what it was actually about. The saddest day for the country and me personally was the day it...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (15 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has concluded its reflection on the recommendations of the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare and the findings of the 2010 actuarial review regarding extending social insurance for the self-employed now that our budgetary and fiscal situation has improved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39385/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Rate (15 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 15% reduction which local authorities are permitted to apply to property taxes collected in their area is a once-off event or, alternatively, if it is envisaged that the 15% reduction can be applied every year, should local authorities so wish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (14 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if it is his Department or the Health Service Executive who will carry forward planned proposals to reduce, through mergers, the number of disability service providers; and if he will report on the progress. [38849/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (14 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 318. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedure for amending the scheme under the Pyrite Resolution Act to include homeowners living in the council area of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, which is not included in the eligibility criteria but where category 2 damage consistent with pyrite heave has been identified; and if he will advise on the way concerned...

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important legislation that deals with recording the defining moments of our lives, our births, marriages and deaths - the records that establish our position and status within the State, and our relationship to one and another and to the State as citizens. I am particularly interested in the provision requiring the registration of father's names on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Concern (8 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: So is everybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Concern (8 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank the delegation for its presentation. I agree about the destabilising effect this is likely to have. Apart from being a huge humanitarian crisis and a disaster for the people of Iraq and Syria, it is destabilising for the West as well. Even the International Monetary Fund, IMF, figures this morning specifically refer to the effect it is likely to have on growth throughout the world,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Concern (8 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: Is there anything Concern can do to make women and girls a priority? What is happening to them is appalling. These were people living in three-bedroom semi-detached houses only a few months ago and they now find themselves being married off in appalling circumstances and subjected to FMG and so forth by people they thought would liberate them. Obviously we agree that a political solution...

Agriculture Industry: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: The Deputy and Minister should not engage in debate because the Deputy only has three minutes left.

Message from Select Committee (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: The Select Sub-Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 and has made no amendment thereto.

Agriculture Industry: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I understand Deputy Ó Cuív, who has 40 minutes, is taking 25 minutes and sharing with Deputies Cowen and Moynihan.

Agriculture Industry: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: Would Deputy Ó Cuív stick to agriculture?

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I understand that Deputy Catherine Murphy is taking 20 minutes.

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: Perfect.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the €2 billion collected for the State from private pension savings of a relatively small number of persons if he will reverse the decision to extend the levy into 2015 in view of the huge impact it is having on the retirement income of older contributors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37953/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Postcode System Establishment (7 Oct 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 574. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the serious reservations of many potential users of the proposed post code and in view of its almost complete irrevocability once introduced, if he will consider postponing its introduction pending an examination of the extent to which it meets the criteria for a national post code as defined by the Joint...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (30 Sep 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of unsuccessful jobseeker applicants under 24 years of age whose application was unsuccessful due to the jobseeker's means assessment of parental income at the Nutgrove social protection office, Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37105/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (30 Sep 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 344. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to utilise the new facility purchased at Mount Carmel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36570/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the apparently inordinate number of documents that go missing while processing applications for medical cards within the Health Service Executive; if an International Organisation for Standardisation is used to measure the performance of processing of applications within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the...