Results 41-60 of 46,232 for speaker:Simon Harris

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I would like to know because it is by all of us coming together that we will create the momentum that Netanyahu's genocide cannot be tolerated. What the Deputy said about Shannon Airport is an attempt to conflate a number of issues. It is an attempt to suggest somehow or other that Shannon Airport is being used to assist with the horrific activity in Gaza. There is no evidence of that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: Thank you for explaining it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: The people of Palestine know we are standing up for them. Deputy Coppinger might not want to acknowledge or appreciate that. The Palestinian ambassador wrote to Sligo County Council in the past week and said Ireland's commitment to international law and human rights will always be seen and commended by the Palestinian people. Every effort by the Government of Ireland to stop...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: Hang on a second. It is hard to keep up with the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I would like to use the 32 seconds available to me. It is hard to keep up with the Deputy's logic. The Palestinian ambassador has written-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: -----to thank the people and Government of Ireland. Funnily enough, I attach a greater value to her view, as the representative of the people of Palestine, than I do to the Deputy's view on behalf of the people of Palestine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: She represents them. That is how it works. She is their representative in this country. We made her an ambassador by recognising the State of Palestine. On the occupied territories Bill, let me be clear. There are legal issues about services. We will tease through them and, if we can make progress on them that is what we intend to do, but we need other countries to move. If this is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: The Deputy is accusing me of saying things that I never said. Nobody suggested here that anyone is patting themselves on the back. What I did for the people watching at home was push back against the Deputy's misinformation and disinformation that the Government is not taking action on the cost of living. People know the record of this Government in helping them through the past number of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: That is why they voted to put a centrist Government back in office.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for highlighting what is the biggest domestic emergency we face in this country - the issue of housing. It is nowhere more acute than when it comes to children. We are united on that. I have huge respect for the Ombudsman of Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, for the work of his office and his independence. Both of the parties in government established this structure because...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I wish the assure the Deputy that it is. I also assure him that I am aware of the mountain that needs to be climbed to where we need to get to. We will give consideration very much to how we take forward the views of the Ombudsman for Children, whether that is through bespoke strategies or reflected in specific actions in the new housing plan. He is not wrong regarding the need for a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I do not want to interrupt.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I want to acknowledge at the outset, because it is true, that people in this country are still finding the cost of living a very significant issue. I know that, the Deputy knows that and there is not a TD in Dáil Éireann who is not aware of that in their own community and from their own constituency work. I want to be clear the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: The role of the High Representative of the European Union on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is set out in Articles 18 and 24 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). They establish that the High Representative shall conduct the Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and represent the Union for matters relating to CFSP. The High Representative, who is also Vice President...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: With regard to the passport application to which the Deputy is referring, the Passport Service has made contact with the applicant.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (26 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: Officials in my Department, including our bilateral Embassies in the region, are continuing to monitor closely ongoing developments in relations between India and Pakistan, alongside our EU and like-minded international partners in New Delhi and Islamabad. As I've reiterated previously, the Government is committed to enhanced political engagement with both countries over the coming years...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (25 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. Ireland remains engaged with EU and International partners on the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict. I have participated in two meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council in the last week at which Member States and the High Representative discussed these issues. At those meetings, I outlined Ireland’s position on the need for urgent...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (25 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I am deeply concerned about the hostile relationship between Israel and Iran and I have had an opportunity to discuss this at two meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council in a week, on Tuesday 17 June and Monday 23 June. I welcome President Trump's announcement of a ceasefire and I hope both sides adhere to it. At those meetings, I outlined Ireland’s position on the need for urgent...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: The functions, privileges and immunities of foreign defence attachés and their legal status in Ireland derives from the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, as given effect in Irish law by the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Act, 1967. The appointment of a defence attaché on behalf of foreign nominating states is governed by Article 7 of the Vienna Convention on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jun 2025)

Simon Harris: I condemn any endangerment of the safety of our peacekeepers in the execution of their mandated duties. The incident in Yaroun in May this year was unconscionable. As I have said previously, upon my instruction, on 30 May, immediately after the incident in Yaroun, our Permanent Representation to the United Nations in New York expressed our grave concerns directly to the Permanent Mission...