Results 44,841-44,860 of 46,267 for speaker:Simon Harris

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (27 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a project (details supplied) in County Wicklow; the immediate timeframe for the stages of this project; the funding allocation available for this project; the prospective date for completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15502/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Calculations (27 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered any plans to revise the criteria and system on which commercial levies are based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15503/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (26 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason resource hour applications for children with special educational needs that were received after 5 October 2012 will not be sanctioned until the 2013/2014 school year; the way schools are expected to provide for the needs of these children from within their existing resources; if such a delay is now to be viewed as the norm; the rationale...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Placements (26 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow that applied to participate in the jobbridge scheme was refused entry to the scheme and the action that can be taken to ensure that this school can avail of administrative support in their school from this scheme [15170/13]

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: The Deputy should do better than that. What does it have to do with legislation?

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: He is critical because we are working too hard.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: Sorry.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: About a threat, apparently.

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: What does that have to do with it?

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to tackle in-patient and day case waiting lists in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24; the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14313/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to tackle the number of patients on trolleys in St Colmcille’s Hospital Loughlinstown, County Dublin; the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14342/13]

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: I am very pleased to have an opportunity to speak on the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill. It represents a welcome progression of the proposals for reform suggested by the Law Reform Commission. It is also important to acknowledge the constructive and interactive approach to the Bill by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, who considered amendments in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Finance the consequences for an employer refusing to provide a P45; the measures of recourse for a person in seeking to obtain a P45 when an employer is refusing to provide it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13467/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (14 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in introducing the recommendations arising from the national strategy of substances misuse which includes alcohol, particularly the need for structural separation of alcohol products from other products in supermarkets and other stores; if he intends to give statutory effect to section 9 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Application Numbers (13 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications the Passport Office processed in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current waiting time for a passport; the measures in place to provide emergency passports; the measures being taken to improve the turnaround of passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13178/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Development Levies (13 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount outstanding in development levies to local authorities; the years to which these development levies relate; the amount of outstanding levies by county; the advice he will give to local authorities in terms of collecting such outstanding levies particularly in cases where a developer has gone out of business; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a situation occurring whereby individuals manipulate the planning process by constantly submitting planning objections and just before they are refused permission withdraw them, then resubmit them and so on in an effort to delay an application being formally refused; his views on this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the parents of a child (details supplied) in County Wicklow who have a recommendation from the early intervention team to split their child's school day between mainstream and a special needs school can go about ensuring that this happens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12313/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (12 Mar 2013)

Simon Harris: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider allowing schools to combine their learning support hours allocation and their resource hours allocation to enable them to provide the maximum amount of support to students with special educational needs and to give them the flexibility to provide such supports within a school community without the need for teaching time to be...