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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Breeding Regulations (19 Nov 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 227. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the rules and guidelines surrounding dog breeding establishments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40989/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (28 Jan 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: ...has been drawn to the inconsistency that exists between the VAT Consolidation Act 2010 and a Revenue Commissioner leaflet on VAT for veterinary services which is a great concern of the professional dog groomers industry; if he will review this inconsistency and allow professional dog groomers to charge the 13.5% VAT rate which is currently available to veterinary practices that provide dog...

Supreme Court Ruling in the X Case: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2012)

Olivia Mitchell: ...away and that death is almost inevitable. We cannot leave our doctors in a position where they feel they have no option but to treat living, sentient human beings in a way a vet would not treat a dog. This is an emotive debate and a complex issue. All sorts of red herrings are being thrown in our path. Some fear this tragic episode will be used to leverage the introduction of abortion...

Health Service Budget: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2012)

Olivia Mitchell: ...of the overrun. All of us wish that services could be maintained but the issue is achieving it. The clear absence of any management structure when setting up the HSE was disastrous and it has dogged it ever since. It merely introduced a layer of management on top of the layer of management that existed for the health boards. It has struggled ever since as a result of that fateful...

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Olivia Mitchell: ...the banks. The deposits pouring out were not just domestic, they were from international investors who were reducing their deposits in Irish banks. The professionals must have known this, as the dogs in the street knew it that summer. Those who should have been advising the Government and were well paid to do so stayed quiet, perhaps in order to hide their own failure to alert the...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Olivia Mitchell: ...council in Dublin operating within a national authority? What possible powers can it have if they are already vested in the National Transportation Authority? In short, what we have here is a dog's dinner, a sop to local representatives, giving the impression that they will have some role when power, responsibility and authority will lie elsewhere as always. The legislation also proposed...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 392: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the Control of Dogs (Amendment) Bill, to provide adequate regulation of dog breeding establishments, will come before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41531/09]

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (28 Jan 2009)

Olivia Mitchell: ...action, in respect of which there is a consensus. The document under discussion by the Government and the social partners is so broad and woolly that one wonders what is being discussed. The dogs in the street know that there is consensus regarding many of the matters in question. We must take action and stop allowing ourselves to be victims of events. It is recognised that this is the...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (27 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: ... if he will bring forward immediate legislative proposals to protect heritage sites and the users of these sites in view of the difficulties which he has highlighted in enforcing the control of dog legislation at these sites including the inability to pass by-laws to govern such sites. [28729/06]

Written Answers — Control of Dogs: Control of Dogs (30 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the banning of the importation of pit-bull terriers and other dangerous breeds of dogs. [20950/06]

Written Answers — Control of Dogs: Control of Dogs (30 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 630: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on a ban on the ownership of pit-bull terriers and other dangerous breeds of dogs. [20950/06]

Written Answers — Control of Dogs: Control of Dogs (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 552: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need to introduce dog control by-laws for Office of Public Works properties; and his plans in this regard (details supplied). [16335/06]

Written Answers — Control of Dogs: Control of Dogs (25 Apr 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 305: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need to introduce dog control by-laws for Office of Public Works properties as Office of Public Works parks are targeted by unscrupulous dog owners who intimidate other users of these parks; and his plans in this regard. [14801/06]

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: .... Fine Gael introduces this Bill to offer the opportunity to deal with just one of the outstanding road safety issues. If the Government had rejected this Bill it would have been regarded as dog in the manger behaviour, an admission that because it failed to introduce a mobile phone ban, it would not allow anyone else do so either. I am pleased the Minister has taken the responsible...