Results 121-140 of 47,282 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: My party found that to be a lonely journey in the past several years-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: -----as Sinn Féin opposed it every time we did it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: Deputy Doherty might read the programme for Government, where it specifically says that if it comes to a choice between investment in public services or tax, we know which we will do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: Now, Deputy Doherty talks about-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: I will use my time, if that is okay. Did the Deputy hear the town planner yesterday on "Morning Ireland" talk about how the measures we have taken will help more apartments to be built? Sinn Féin wants more homes to be built, but spends half its time objecting to them. It says it wants to treat housing as an emergency.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: We treat it as an emergency, using the tax code to stimulate viability.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: Sinn Féin proposed 23 new taxes, €3.3 billion more-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: It would be a failure.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: It is an alternative budget that would blow our economy. The people rejected it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: Thank you very much. We will keep this country safe.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: We will develop and invest in our public services-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: ----- and deliver homes, and we will deliver our promises-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: -----in the programme for Government over five years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: The Deputy saying it is so, does not make it so.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Kelly for highlighting this issue. I know he is using his personal experiences as an example but I want to extend my sympathy and that of everyone in the House for the bereavement his wife experienced recently and indeed the loss of his father. I also wish his mother our best. The generation of politicians who went before us gave an example of how to botch health...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: Before I answer that question, I too want to take an opportunity to welcome the developments in relation to the Middle East overnight. I welcome the announcement that Israel and Hamas have now agreed on the first phase of a ceasefire and a peace deal for Gaza. We are now at a critical moment where we all hope and pray that we can see an end to this brutal, horrific humanitarian catastrophe,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: They said, "No, thank you very much." They also heard what we said and what Deputy Paschal Donohoe said during the general election as well, when we said, "Yes, we want to do measures on income tax", but we put in black and white in the programme for Government that if it was a choice between doing certain things or doing income tax we would choose the other things because we have to keep...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Strategies (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 89 and 90 together. Recognising the value of sports to Ireland's international engagement, the Government in May launched Ireland’s first ever International Sports Diplomacy Framework. The Framework aims to help build Ireland’s reputation as a premier sporting nation, while fostering opportunities for international partnerships, cultural...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: All passport applications are subject to the requirements of the Passports Act, 2008, as amended (the 2008 Act). The Act provides a legal basis for the various policies and procedures that are applied by the Passport Service in the issuing of passports. Section 10 of the Act provides that a passport will issue in the name of a citizen as it appears on their birth certificate or...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Equipment (9 Oct 2025)
Simon Harris: The number of devices lost or stolen is as follows: Year Phone Laptop 2020 2 - 2021 9 2 2022 11 2 2023 10 4 2024 10 1 2025 11 4 The use of USB devices on...