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- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: We are enjoying this.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: As the previous Government should have done when making cuts.
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce new, or amend existing legislation dealing with race hate crimes and incitement to cause racial hatred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38394/11]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 411: To ask the Minister for Health the legislation currently governing the prices charged by dentists; if he intends to introduce new legislation in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38596/11]
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (6 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 420: To ask the Minister for Health the reason employment criteria for a position (details supplied) within the Health Service Executive have been altered to require candidates who have completed a private emergency medical technician course at a cost of approximately â¬2,500 to be eligible to be called to interview unlike previous years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: The Deputy does not have a monopoly of concern.
- Water Services (1 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this important matter and I thank the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, for coming to the Chamber for this debate. The Vartry tunnel is a 4 km long, rock lined tunnel built in the 1860s which runs through the Wicklow Mountains. It supplies water from the Vartry reservoir to more than 150,000 homes in...
- Water Services (1 Dec 2011)
Simon Harris: I thank the Minister for his positive response. Many of my constituents - the Ceann Comhairle's constituency of Dún Laoghaire is served by a similar supply - will be astonished and annoyed to learn that the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government has allocated funding and made provision for additional staffing measures and that a preliminary report was approved in...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health for details of the waiting list, on a regional and national basis, for magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scans in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37895/11]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health if there is a system of fast-tracking in place with regards to MRI scanning, where time-critical but non-urgent cases are identified and treated accordingly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37896/11]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has considered extending the operating hours of MRI scanners with a view to addressing the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37897/11]
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: With good reason.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: It will be Fianna Fáil's epitaph.
- Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (29 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason no tax reliefs are offered to parents who pay for their children to attend public third level institutions, as opposed to parents paying for their children to attend private third level institutions; if his attention has been drawn to the inequities that this distinction raises; his plans to introduce a tax relief scheme towards the...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (29 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role external employment coaches will play in the new employment and training organisation that is scheduled to replace FÃS; if the role of employment coaches will be enhanced in view of the current levels of unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37080/11]
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (29 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new organisation scheduled to replace FÃS will retain FÃS registered trainers list of external employment coaches or if a new list will be created; if coaches on the current FÃS list will have to re-apply to be included on the new list; the format the new list will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37081/11]
- Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (29 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he intends to implement the draft statutory instrument which he published for consultation in June 2011 requiring Internet service providers to act reasonably to preclude customers from copyright theft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36986/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (29 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 250: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timetable envisaged for the replacement of FÃS by the new employment and training organisation announced by the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37079/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate and I thank the Sinn Féin party for tabling the motion. I have no doubt that Members on all sides of the House and the public are in agreement that investing in our country's children, tackling child poverty and removing poverty traps from the social welfare system are issues of immense importance. During the economic boom,...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (24 Nov 2011)
Simon Harris: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which the decision was taken to charge VAT on entrance fees to historic houses, stately homes and gardens and open farms; the reason for the discrepancy in the VAT rate to be applied to historic houses and stately homes compared to open farms; if any evaluation of the impact of this change on the tourist trade has been conducted; and...