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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...efficient way of moving through this, particularly at a time when we need more gardaí? There are quite a lot of people expressing an interest in becoming a garda and I know my colleague, the Minister for Justice, is working on this.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...need to know a very simple answer as legislators. Is that legal now? If it is, let us fix it and change the law. If it is not legal, why is it not being stopped? I have asked the Minister for Justice to come back to me on that.

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

Simon Harris: ...of the HSE, having considered a report he received into the death of Aoife Johnston, which had very significant findings about the care of Aoife and the operation of the hospital, appointed the former Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Frank Clarke, to conduct a formal investigation. The outcome of that investigation is going to be very important – I am sure we can all agree on that...

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: ..., I intend to scrutinise that as to whether there is an ability to do more there. A structure is in place between the UK and Ireland relating to the common travel area and a group, including justice officials, oversees that and is due to meet shortly. The Minister, Deputy McEntee, is due to meet her counterpart, the British Home Secretary, shortly, possibly as soon as next week. It...

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: ...accommodation for those who come to our country. There is a broader issue around processing times and how we interact with the borders of Europe and the common travel area. The Minister for Justice spoke yesterday about the many people now coming over the porous Border. She spoke about how deportations, returns policies and secondary movements operate. There is a lot of good work going...

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

Simon Harris: ...in a devastating fire. Their unfinished stories became your 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...

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

Simon Harris: I assure the House and the Deputy that we will get that time. To be clear, it is being referred to the justice committee for its scrutiny. It will then come back to this House for a full debate, which the Government wishes to be given plenty of time and a vote by every Member. It will then go to the other House for a full debate and a vote by every Member because while I am very much in...

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

Simon Harris: ...raising this issue. I acknowledge that he has been raising and championing it for a very significant period and at every opportunity. As a result of his advocacy and engagement, the Minister for Justice has been working with her officials on a significant project in this area. As the Deputy has alluded to, important developments are due in this space shortly. I will ask the Minister,...

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

Simon Harris: -----but overall will be the better for it. We will have an opportunity to tease through in painstaking detail the EU migration pact at the justice committee and on the floor of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. Far from ceding sovereignty, the people's representatives, including the Deputy, me and everyone else in this House, will vote "Tá" or "Níl" on whether we...

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

Simon Harris: ...;n, 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 will continue to do so.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ----- but the appropriate thing is for it to go before the justice committee. How the justice committee decides to assess-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: Just give me one second. Deputy Verona Murphy has been at this for long enough to know how it works. I do not tell the justice committee what to do. There would be uproar if I started telling the justice committee-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: Every Member of this House is welcome to go to the justice committee, make contributions and put forward their views in relation to it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: In relation to the EU migration pact, there is a motion to refer it to the justice committee. The justice committee can scrutinise it. It will come back here, and the Government will give it ample time. Deputy Murphy can make her contribution both before the justice committee-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...if they voted "Yes" should not count for something. I take as constructive the points the Deputy made about the three-day waiting period, the issue of how doctors feel with respect to the criminal justice system and the issue of - the Deputy used the phrase "clarification around" - fatal foetal abnormalities. The Government will give consideration to the legislative proposals, but I am...

Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Food and Marine to Deputy Charlie McConalogue; the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to Deputy Roderic O'Gorman; the Department of Health to Deputy Stephen Donnelly; the Department of Justice to Deputy Helen McEntee; the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to Deputy Peter Burke; and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research,...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Humphreys. To the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue. To the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman. To the Department of Health, Stephen Donnelly To the Department of Justice, Helen McEntee. To the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Peter Burke. To the Department of Further and Higher...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: In re-appointing Deputy McEntee as Minister for Justice, I am working with her and tasking her to continue her momentum of delivering stronger, safer communities by continuing to fast track legislation to give judges new powers to make sure heinous criminals serve long sentences before they can ever be considered for release.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht (Atógáil) - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: .... It is a very long judgment, running to approximately 200 pages but it seems to be positive. The Government's position on this has been consistent and steadfast. We believe all families deserve justice and we want all families to get justice. We are very much aware of the judgment delivered in the High Court earlier. It is a long and detailed judgment in a case brought by a number of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht (Atógáil) - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Clarke very much for raising this important issue. My colleague, the Minister for Justice, is extraordinarily committed to adopting a zero-tolerance approach to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. As the Deputy may know, as recently as last week we saw the establishment of Cuan, the new national agency to co-ordinate these efforts. I thank the people undertaking the...