Results 21-40 of 2,199 for long speaker:Simon Harris

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...that we put in place that help people to move out of the box room and into their own homes certainly will not make progress either. I have answered the question very clearly in relation to long-term leasing and the Government's plan to end that by 31 December 2025. That is the Government position, it was the Government position and it remains the Government position. Far from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cairns for also raising this matter. First, context is important. While I have already outlined the Government's intention to end the use of long-term leasing by the end of 2025, I want anybody watching in at home to be aware that this is a very small part of our overall housing provision and a very small part of our social housing provision. If the Deputy will allow me a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...of rent pressure zones for a further year until 31 December 2025. The Deputy likes to talk about failure but the statistics show significant progress being made for many homeowners. On long-term leasing, let me be clear the phasing out of long-term leasing is well under way, with 3,500 social homes to be delivered through long-term leasing from 2022 to the end of 2025. Most of the...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...-ordinate migration policy at a European Union level. We cannot take our Union for granted. It must be nurtured and protected and it must evolve and renew in the face of new challenges. The European Union has come a long way since a small group of countries, weary from years of war, committed to peace and prosperity by joining together in a shared community. Ireland was part of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...University Magee campus. Following that meeting I was welcomed to Parliament Buildings in Stormont by Speaker, Edwin Poots, where I also had meetings with each of the other party leaders: Naomi Long, Doug Beattie and Colum Eastwood. These meetings were useful and productive, covering the Northern Ireland budget, legacy and the shared island youth forum. On 15 April I was also very...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...-year-olds. I am happy to take a look at the specific case in Cork and to ask the Minister to engage directly with Deputy Barry. In response to Deputy O'Callaghan in regard to Gaelcholáiste Reachrann in Donaghmede and the long time classes have spent in prefabs, we allocated quite a lot of additional capital to the Minister for Education. I will ask her what that means for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...possible start in life. Achieving this is not only the right thing to do for children, but it is also essential for protecting social cohesion, empowering vibrant communities and for securing our long-term economic future.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...are a key focus for me. I have made this matter a priority since becoming Taoiseach, and that is why I have established this new Cabinet committee. Being very honest, I did not think that as long as disability services were part of the remit of the Cabinet committee on health they were going to get the proper attention they deserve. That was because the Cabinet committee on health deals...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...is also about asking how we can work more closely with the PSNI and the Garda and how we can work more closely on the common travel area with the UK, which we both value. The common travel area has been there for a long time. How do we work together in that regard? We have seen a significant increase in deportations. In fact, 173 people had departed the State under various mechanisms...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., it is helpful to recognise the existence of both states. I would like to recognise Palestine at a time when a number of European states wish to do so but I do not wish to wait around on this for too long. I hope to be in a position to provide an update to the House in the coming weeks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...rightly taking the issues being experienced by some of the Deputy's constituents and people in Cork regarding water quality. It also very much highlights an issue we have been trying to highlight for a very long time, namely the need for decent investment plans for water and water quality in this country. We have had those debates in the House previously. I will come back to the Deputy...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...We have assisted businesses in recent years to remain operating and to ensure our continuing competitiveness, innovativeness and resilience into the future. We are also taking significant steps to increase public capital investment, while establishing two longer-term funds to ensure our corporation tax receipts are available for future investment and to provide for the needs of future...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...by the commission of the time allowed. The interim report also noted that time would be required for the commission to consider all submission it received before completing its final report. Long story short, in view of the apparent advanced stage of the investigation, having fully considered the matter, the then Taoiseach decided to grant the commission's request for an extension of its...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...story - the defining story of your lives and the lives of your parents and other family members who left this life before ever seeing justice. I am deeply sorry that you were made to fight for so long that they went to their graves never knowing the truth. Today we say formally and without any equivocation, we are sorry. We failed you when you needed us the most. From the very...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: Very much so. We have soldiered together for too long for anything else to happen. I am really proud that we have managed to deliver a university for the south east but I am also very much aware that its success or otherwise will absolutely depend on our continued support and investment as it embeds and grows. I am really proud of the progress it has made so far but each of the issues the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I note the Deputy's long record of leadership in this area both at the Oireachtas agriculture committee and in his life before politics. I will ask the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, to engage with the Revenue Commissioners on the matter and to get back directly to the Deputy. I am meeting with the Irish Farmers Association, IFA, later this week to discuss a number of the challenges...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...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 particularly parents of children with cancer, to know is that they live in a country where the number of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...in Scotland, they are not worsening. They are not improving just up the road in Northern Ireland but are worsening. They have improved for the past two years here in this country but we have have a long way to go and I fully accept that. The Deputy talks quite rightly about the need for more staff but it is important for the Deputy to acknowledge that since the last general election...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...relation to divestment, I welcome the decision that has been taken by ISIF last week. I appreciate Deputy Ó Murchú's comments about not being overly concerned about how these things are done, as long as these things are done. Let me seek a view from the Minister for Finance and I will correspond with the Deputy on that.