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Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: I also welcome the Bill and the opportunity to speak on what on the face of it seems like a fairly simple and straightforward Bill. This Bill sets up a unique patient identifier for every citizen in the country, provides the legal framework for how it will operate and who will access it and deals with governance issues associated with data protection rules. The Bill was deemed necessary and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: ...by their pregnancy. I think it is to our shame that we have waited until we were forced by the international community to take action in this area. It is to our shame that we forced sick, distressed and often heartbroken women onto boats and aeroplanes to find elsewhere the compassion that was not available to them here at home in their own country. When I say it is to our shame, I...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBurnreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Olivia Mitchell: With the Taoiseach and most people in this country I fully appreciate the need to reform our political system so that we can give full expression to our democracy. I do not subscribe to the view that ours is the worst political system but neither is it the best that it can be and when it was really put to the test no one can deny that it massively failed the people in neither preventing nor...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Olivia Mitchell: ...speak on this Bill, which was in draft form at the time of the referendum on the stability treaty. We had an opportunity during that referendum campaign to debate exactly what was going to happen and the electorate went into vote knowing what the impact of the treaty would be. What we are now putting into law received a resounding mandate from the people. The Bill details the...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Like my colleagues, I have no problem in supporting the legislation which is necessary to copperfasten and legitimise the status of the existing bodies, but I question the other measures contained in the legislation. I also question the reason this issue is suddenly so urgent that we must put emergency legislation through the Dáil during Christmas week. The reality is that the urgency...