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Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce measures to assist persons who acted in good faith in becoming guarantors for mortgages at the height of the boom and now find themselves being pursued by the financial institutions in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14767/12]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any rights mortgage guarantors might have in their dealings with financial institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14768/12]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding he has provided to a school (details supplied) in respect of renting land and prefabs at its current location; his plans to provide permanent facilities to the school, which is currently located at an unsuitable site in temporary accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14669/12]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the possibility of asking a vocational education committee organisation to make available current surplus premises to a school (details supplied) which is housed in temporary accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14670/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to make any amendments to maternity leave regulations in order to allow parents to share this entitlement to leave between them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14865/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to amend adoptive leave regulations to allow either parent to avail of this entitlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14866/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any plans to consolidate the leave entitlements outlined under the Maternity Protections Act, the Adoptive Leave Act and the Parental Leave Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14867/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (15 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rights to maternity or parental leave accruing to the parents or adoptive parents of a child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14868/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (14 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing failure of a school (details supplied) in County Cavan to introduce policy measures to allow a student of that school who is reliant on a trained assistance dog to attend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14416/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (14 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had any contact with a school (details supplied) in County Cavan in relation to their policy on the use of trained assistance dogs by students with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14417/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (14 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines currently in place for mainstream schools in addressing the needs of students reliant on trained assistance dogs; if he intends to review these guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14418/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (14 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the use of trained assistance dogs by students with disabilities in mainstream schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14419/12]

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (14 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered any alternative education programmes at post primary level in the area of drugs awareness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14466/12]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (14 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legislative responsibility of an employer to an employee who acquires an illness, injury or disability, whether occupational or non-occupational; how this responsibility compares with international best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14390/12]

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (13 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 318: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline in tabular form the supports and grants administered by him that the volunteer producers of a cultural publication (details supplied) may avail of. [13990/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (13 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 372: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the current schemes operated by him which enable local authority tenants to purchase their houses from councils; if he is introducing any new scheme in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13930/12]

Written Answers — Mortgage to Rent Scheme: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (13 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 398: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update as to the status of the buy to rent scheme whereby local authorities will be empowered to purchase houses from struggling mortgage holders and rent them back to those tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14247/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a national school pupil (details supplied) suffering from dsypraxia has been told by his Department that his-her application for resource hours will not be assessed until June 2012; if his attention has been drawn to the damaging effect that this delay will have on the pupil; the rationale for the delay and the steps he...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has issued a directive to the National Council for Special Education to pause the processing of applications for resource hours in primary schools until June 2012; the reasons underpinning this decision; if his attention has been drawn to the hardship that such an instruction will cause students and families; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (8 Mar 2012)

Simon Harris: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline, in tabular form, the number of employers who availed of the employee retention grant for each of the years 2007 to 2012; her plans to increase awareness of this grant among employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13285/12]