Results 281-300 of 46,014 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: I will stand up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: I hope I will get an extra 38 seconds as well-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: -----because there was the greatest load of palaver levelled at me there.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: Deputy Connolly has such vitriol for and dislike of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that she cannot ever actually come above and rise to the moment. Ours is the first Government in the European Union to say that what Israel is doing is genocide. Do you hear that, Deputy? It is genocide.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: Israel is committing war crimes, and we will pass the occupied Palestinian territories Bill.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: We will pass that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: We will pass it as quickly as possible.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: It will go to the foreign affairs committee in the month of June. While you are standing here just throwing brickbats at me-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: -----we are working to support the people of Palestine. The only Chamber I ever go into in the entire world where people do not acknowledge that Ireland - the Government and the people of Ireland - are standing with the people of Palestine, standing up for human rights and standing up for international law is here, when you get up and distort with your ideology the actions of this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: There you go. You are at it again. Hold your sign up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: You cannot work together on anything.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice for raising this important issue and, in fairness to him, for raising it consistently in terms of the aftermath of Storm Éowyn and the impact it has had on people across our country, but most particularly the elongated impact it has had on people living in rural or more disperse communities, many of which I know he represents in his constituency. I will deal...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. He is right. This is an area where a significant amount of work is needed to make progress. There is no doubt about that. I would make the point at the outset that I do not think any one strand of work will get us to where we need to get. We will need to do four or five very significant things at the same time and this is the focus of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: There is an agreed way forward. We have a very clear view forward regarding amending and reforming the legislation and the model around assessment of need and we want to work with people in good faith to get this right, including, most importantly, parents and those who carry out assessments of need - the clinical professions. The House can expect engagement from us on that very shortly. ...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: We can come back to that in a moment. Other actions needed include: resourcing An Bord Pleanála properly; enacting and commencing the various provisions of the Planning and Development Acts in order that we can speed up the delivery of planning, because planning decisions are holding back the delivery of homes and infrastructure; increasing the zoned land for housing, and that is what...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: No, just yours. The misleading of people in relation to Irish Water is your fault.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: We have been very clear that we are going to have to spend an awful lot more on Uisce Éireann. I met with the chief executive of Uisce Éireann for a number of hours last Friday. Uisce Éireann has presented to the Government real plans that if we can provide it with significant additional capital funding over the summer period in the context of the review of the national...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: I am not sure who is playing leader of Sinn Féin today, whether it is you or Pearse. I am not sure whether this is the audition for the next leader of Sinn Féin but I would like to speak, if that is okay.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: We will publish a new housing plan-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Simon Harris: They do not want an answer because they are not about the answer.