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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will ask that the Deputy's party's Bill is referred to the Attorney General as part of his consideration. That is a sensible thing to do. We will continue and I want the Deputy to know, as she probably does from her engagement with the Minister, Deputy Foley, that there is an intense degree of work going on in relation to this. We have seen in the past when we have got mechanisms correct...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: He had no such conversation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Last week, I was at the United Nations and I met the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas. I also met the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Government. Both the President and the Prime Minister of Palestine thanked me, our Government and the people of Ireland for what we are doing in relation to Palestine. I come back here and I come into this Dáil and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Yes. Deputy McDonald is exactly right and I hope she will condemn Iran too-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Sorry, hold your horses. Hold your horses-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I condemn the actions of the Government of Israel, the incursion into Lebanon and what it is doing in Gaza, on a daily basis. The difference between the Deputy and me is that I am consistent. I believe breaches of international law are wrong no matter who carries them out, whereas the Deputy believes they are wrong if it suits his political agenda. What would he have said if those Iranian...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy is suggesting-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Yes, but-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Excuse me-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: They are resolved.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: The Ceann Comhairle will understand why I am finding it hard to take a moralistic lecture on child protection from the leader of the Opposition today of all days.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: She might come back to us on that. I cannot ask her a question in this House but there is a function available to her and she should use it because she should apply the same standards to herself as she applies to everybody else.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will answer the question. The Deputy is trying to do this thing. She stands up and talks about being slick and soundbites. She has obviously decided that I am now living rent-free in her head. That is fine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: The reality of the situation here, Deputy McDonald, is that I will work with this family, but I will not have her wrongly represent who I am, my values or the work I do. I will work every day to help every child who needs access.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: We delivered a budget yesterday that will make substantial progress. I have already outlined to the Deputy that I will be meeting directly with the family advocacy groups next week. I do not need the Deputy as an intermediary.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will be meeting them directly and I will be working with them, the Minister of Health and the clinician who carries out the surgeries, and is now the clinical lead, to do the best thing possible. We will put every support in place. I assure the Deputy of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Bacik for raising this important issue around child protection and child abuse and making sure we have a zero-tolerance approach to this matter in all organisations, including in State agencies, political parties and everywhere else. I could not agree more with the Deputy. The issue of child protection is the most important one. Child abuse is something that sickens...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: You want to silence them.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I would not laugh about this topic.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I would not think the Deputy would find it funny. It is not a funny issue.