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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: It is a statement of fact that Sinn Féin has opposed every European referendum since we joined the European Union, including the one to join the European Union. That is the truth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: Old fogey, young fogey.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I was distracted about the personal slurs Deputy McDonald made about my character, rather than engaging on political issues. In response to Deputy Tóibín, we are proudly seeking to join the EU migration pact. It is good for the country and for Europe. We are looking forward to teasing through and debating the detail in this House, the Seanad and at the justice committee and we...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Collins for raising the important matter of small businesses and especially mentioning a number of them in what we call the hospitality sector, cafés, restaurants, pubs and others. I fully accept they have been struggling to absorb significant costs and have been operating in an environment of high inflation, rising costs and a number of charges that have come at them all...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: -----to provide policy certainty as to what the next few years will look like with respect to the cost of doing business in Ireland.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I look forward to meeting Cara and working with Deputies who are like-minded on this issue across this House. It is an area in which we can make progress together but one in which we really need to do that. I will check with the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, but my memory tells me the publication of that document is imminent. The strategy is much awaited and a lot of work has gone...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I can shake my head if I wish to because for some of what I heard, it was quite a challenge to just keep my head movement to that. On this idea that we are ceding sovereignty and that people in Brussels are making decisions - does Deputy Tóibín not want to be a member of the European Parliament? Is he not running for election because he wants to be there making-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: Let us not go down the kind of Brexit Britain road here of Brussels bad, Ireland good. The reality is we are members of the European Union. After I finish taking questions, I will head to Brussels where I will participate in a decision-making process with other European Heads of Government. Members of the European Parliament, which the Deputy aspires to be, will vote democratically on...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I cannot hear the Deputy. When it comes to migration, it is fanciful in the extreme to think that this small little island with, thankfully, an open border - which we all worked very hard to protect during the Brexit process - could just go it alone regarding global and EU migration and that we would continue with the system in which we cannot effectively return anybody, in many ways, in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: It is not a record.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: Leaders' Questions is not about the Deputy and it is not about me, and on that we can agree. I have nothing but respect for the Deputy, but that is not what this is about. When she decided this morning, in advance of coming in for Leaders' Questions, to issue a press release with statistics - She did. She can roll her eyes but she pushes it out and Sinn Féin Members will all retweet it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: No, it is not ludicrous. I am just asking that when the Deputy talks to the people at home, she gives them the facts. The HSE specifically asked Sinn Féin not to do what it did today in comparing the data. That is the first point. The second point is that wait times and cancellations and how long it takes to see a doctor are all interlinked. What I want people at home, most...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: -----is increasing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: These are important facts, and we cannot just seek to exploit every single challenge. More children are being treated and more money is going in. When you talk about a recruitment embargo, you have to point out that 2,200 more staff will be hired this year. The only thing that vanished-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I would like to know why yesterday, after I raised the issue of Sinn Féin's alternative budget for health, it disappeared and vanished like Shergar from its website.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I have a copy of it here. This is Sinn Féin's commitment to the Irish people. Why did Sinn Féin take it down yesterday? Parents need to know-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: -----and have every right to know that the Deputy's party provided for less money-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: -----for their children's healthcare than our party did. Sinn Féin should put the plan back up on its website.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Bacik for raising this important issue. I will absolutely meet again with Cara Darmody.