Results 43,781-43,800 of 46,575 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not need a chorus. There are many other examples of affordable housing schemes throughout the country. This is not just a meeting of Dublin City Council. In Waterford, for example, we are working to deliver affordable homes with a private developer for prices as low as €225,000. Of course it is more expensive to build an affordable home or a home in parts of Dublin than in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: Those are figures that are clearly for Dublin City Council to provide. I presume that is where the Deputy is progressing it, and that is the right and appropriate place. However, the Deputy continues to misrepresent our position on housing. This is Government that is absolutely building and ensuring that homes are built on State-owned lands. We set up the LDA - I think the Deputy opposed...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: This is important.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: Sinn Féin cut its targets-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: -----for council houses in the North. It was planning on delivering 2,050 and a Sinn Féin-led Government has had to slash its social housing targets to just 400.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Bacik and join her in her comments on the war crimes that were carried out by targeting sick children in Ukraine yesterday. Imagine what that is like. The war in Ukraine has been going on for quite a long time but we can never allow ourselves to be in any way immune or accept what is happening, nor should we with the crimes against children happening in the Middle East. A...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: That is an excellent idea. I will talk to the relevant Ministers as to how to take that forward. Based on what I have been told and what I read, a number of positive measures have been taken by sporting organisations in recent years, which I know the Deputy would accept and acknowledge. I do not suggest the 1990s was a very long time ago but many years have passed and a lot has happened,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I have to take a deep breath because the start of Deputy Shanahan's contribution was really out of order. It was fundamentally out of order because I do not ever think there is a justification for the hatred some Members of this House have experienced or for the intimidation and attacks they have experienced, online, off-line, at their homes and towards their families. I would not wish it...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: Please.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: Withdraw what you said.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: So, you will not withdraw it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not have any notes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for his political advice. I do not need any notes to debate the Deputy in relation to these matters. It is highly regrettable that I had to ask him to withdraw comments about politicians coming in here and gormlessly expressing views around hate and toxicity in Irish politics. We should all call that out. If it happened to the Deputy, I would call it out. If it...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy refused to stand up and condemn hatred. Instead, he stated that he had a rationale and an understanding.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: Well, then-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: When the Deputy stood back up, I asked simply if he would consider reflecting on what he said in his opening contribution. He chose not to. He tried to-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: The people of Waterford will adjudicate on the Deputy in due course.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: Well said, indeed, Deputy Healy-Rae. I thank you for saying it. I am really sorry, as I know everybody in this House is, to hear of the abuse that the Deputy and his family had to put up, particularly in the context of the comments about and images of his late mother. That is utterly despicable and reprehensible. There is not a Member on any side of this House who does not think that....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: It is a seriously important issue. It is fair to say that impacts on nearly all of us in different ways, if we are being honest. It is an issue that impacts people right across our country. It is an issue that particularly impacts children and younger people. There is a level of misogyny and sexism, and there are really serious issues in the context of vile online abuse. People are being...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae. We all knowledge that the advent of technology, online media and social media have brought benefits. We all see it in our own lives. Deputy Healy-Rae gets his message out to the people in Kerry that way as well. He is right, however; it cannot be the Wild West. There must be rules, laws, sanctions and regulations as to how that still relatively new structure...