Results 43,361-43,380 of 46,575 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: You advocated for €10 billion and now you are against it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for his assistance
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cairns for her contribution. I acknowledge her long-standing support and that of her party for the recognition of the state of Palestine. I am proud to be Taoiseach in a country where there has been, for a significant period, a political consensus about the importance of this. We have division in this House on many occasions, which is right and proper in a Parliament and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I have got recent legal advice. I am happy to share with the Deputy the date of the most recent legal advice. I do not have it to hand. We have engaged on this in good faith. I believe that, at a European level, we had a significant breakthrough at the last European Council meeting in April - the first one I was honoured to attend - where the unanimous conclusion was a call for an...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We will publish the Housing Commission report today. It is a bit old-fashioned, but it is useful to read things before commenting on them with such authority. Before the Deputy wraps himself in the recommendations of the report, I recommend that he read them. I received the report last night. There are 83 recommendations, 500 actions and subactions, 400 pages of text and three years of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I have read it because that is the useful thing to do-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: -----when one is Taoiseach. When one gets a report the night before, one reads it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I would advise the Deputy to read it when it is published, too, and then we can have a more informed discussion on it because the report very clearly talks about the need for diverse funding models. Yes, we need and have record levels of Exchequer development, but this idea of private investment and diverse sources of investment being the devil incarnate is not what the report has found. It...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy is picking one line out of approximately 400 pages of a report, which I accept he has not had an opportunity to get or read yet, but what I would suggest-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We will be publishing it today. When the Deputy sees the actions, he will see that many of them are underway. We agree with many of them, by the way. Many of them are in line with Government policy. Many of them are things that we are working on right now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: There are some with which I am not sure Deputy O'Callaghan will fully agree.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: There are some with which I am not sure Deputy Boyd Barrett will agree either. I do not think it will be a case of every single recommendation meeting the satisfaction of every political viewpoint in this House but there are good ideas here. We need good ideas. We need to be open to listening to new ideas. We should never be so complacent or arrogant to suggest, when it comes to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: First, the Deputy referenced anger and toxicity in politics. While anger and toxicity, when manifested in the way some local election candidates across the political divide have experienced it, is utterly unacceptable and should always be called out by all of us, as I know the Deputy would, my overwhelming experience when I engage with people right across this country is that people are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy has every right to vigorously represent his constituents in Waterford here, as he does, and I respect that. I have a right to put across the Government's view too. We promised a technological university. It is in the programme for Government. It has been delivered. We promised ring-fenced research funding. It has been delivered. We promised that we would help secure the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy. I genuinely welcome that the Government and the Opposition in Ireland speak with one voice on this matter. It is important for the people of Palestine and for Ireland that we recognise the state of Palestine. I acknowledge the Deputy's long-standing support for that. I assure her and the House that we will continue to work at every possible opportunity for an immediate...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I can. I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I fully agree with him. I am aware of the size of Swords and the population expansion being seen there. I am of the view that if there are challenges in the delivery of any such primary care centres, we will have to come up with alternative ways of progressing them. I accept the need for the people of Swords and south Fingal to have that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: If that is an unwritten policy, it has not been approved by the Government and somebody would need to scrap that policy pretty quickly because we are in urgent need of more additional autism classes. What the Deputy outlined has not been my experience in a couple of projects I worked on in my constituency, but that situation must be very frustrating if a school puts up its hand to say it is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not want to be overly argumentative with the Deputy, but I want to check. She did not say that Israel does not have the right to exist?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: To be very clear, it is the Government's position-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: -----that there is a State of Israel and a state of Palestine, based on the 1967 borders.