Results 81-100 of 5,767 for speaker:Olivia Mitchell

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (13 Oct 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the upper cap on tuition fees to €8,000, €9,000, €10,000 and €15,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35680/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (13 Oct 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the upper cap on tuition fees to €8,000, €9,000, €10,000 and €15,000, for part-time approved courses only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35681/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (8 Oct 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants at the end of each year from 2007 to 2014; at the current time by Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35061/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (8 Oct 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will introduce the regulations, as stipulated in Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34984/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (1 Oct 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation to enable the ratification of the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33694/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I agree it is a real problem that there are long waiting lists and large numbers of patients on trolleys. While this is not acceptable to any of us, it is nothing new. For most of the time I have spent in this House, unimaginable funds were available and were indeed spent on health by the Government of the day. Despite this, waiting lists continued to grow and overcrowded emergency...

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: You are indeed.

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: That really is not relevant to this discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Refugee and Migrant Crisis: Discussion (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Chairman and Mr. Andrews for his presentation. Mr. Andrews was obviously moved by the scale of the problem. I sense a frustration in him that the world has not responded as it should and I think everybody shares that but the movement of people on this scale is a problem the world has not had to tackle before. We should not be terribly surprised that we are not immediately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Refugee and Migrant Crisis: Discussion (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I am not talking about the figure of 120,000, which is a drop in the ocean. I refer to the million migrants per year every year. It has changed two governments already in Europe. Will it destabilise Europe? I accept there is a huge humanitarian crisis and we can do a lot more than we already are, but can we solve the problem?

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I ask the Acting Chairman to convey my thanks to the Ceann Comhairle for choosing this issue because it is extremely urgent. While I am sorry the Minister herself cannot be present, she spoke to me earlier and is aware of the issue, which in a nutshell is the absence of permanent sites for the four schools that are planned for what still is Dublin South, although it eventually will become...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Minister of State for that information and I am particularly pleased to note that a permanent site has been acquired for the Stepaside school, which is welcome. My main concern, if I have one, is about the secondary school. The Minister of State has indicated that a site has been identified but due to commercial sensitivity, it cannot be indicated. I have been getting that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 360. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the legislation governing the rent-a-room scheme prohibits the exclusion of Airbnb from the scheme or if this is an interpretation of the legislation by the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31560/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Migration Issues (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 377. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to respond positively to the Council of Europe Development Bank request to supplement their proposed new grant facility to finance emergency reception and transit centres of asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31860/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 749. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will consider including the sapropterin drug, Kuvan, in its reimbursement scheme, in order to help patients here with phenylketonuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30532/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 961. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the waiting times for intervention at the Dublin South East Health Service Executive Early Intervention Team based in Ballinteer, Dublin 16 due to staff shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31266/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 1209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will announce the location of the new Educate Together secondary school to serve the Stepaside/Rathfarnham area, Dublin which is due to open in September 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30681/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (15 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme for those persons over 23 years of age, who are living in their parents' home on 1 January of a particular year due to the current housing shortage and the high cost of rent, but who are not dependent on their parents' income, other than paying reduced rent to them; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name and patron of all new primary schools opened or planned in the Dublin Rathdown constituency since 2011. [28925/15]