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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...days. I accept his bona fides in raising an important issue on which the Minister wants, and indeed has sought, answers. I need to slightly push back on the assertion with regard to the Department of Justice because I am informed that what we do know is that the details of an individual's criminal record were transmitted from the International Protection Office, IPO, of the Department...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: We continue to look at a range of measures. The Deputy mentioned the Minister for Justice. I ask the Deputy to look at the actual decisions the Minister has taken around faster processing times. It is not a question of rounding people up; it is a matter providing them with clarity when they come to a country. They either have a right to be here or they do not. If they have a right to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...to the Minister for housing and come back to the Deputy in writing on the issue. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan raised the need to regulate management companies and asked where we are with the Minister for Justice on the draft sections 18 and 19 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act, in fulfilment of the programme for Government commitment. I will speak with the Minister, get a timeline for the...

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

Simon Harris: ...will now see the Frank Clarke report, which I believe is due in the next few weeks. The hope of Government is that it is due this month. The fact that the former most senior judge, a former Chief Justice, is carrying out that report I hope gives the Deputy an indication of how seriously we take this issue. The Deputy has heard colleagues talk about and question me on this today, and...

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

Simon Harris: ...we have seen a very significant increase in people coming, not just to Ireland but right across the European Union is multifold. None of them have anything to do with the name of the Minister for Justice of any country. That is very clear. Anybody with any understanding of migration patterns across the European Union, Ireland, the war in Ukraine and the likes, would very quickly arrive...

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

Simon Harris: ...the front line. Despite their exceptional work and hard efforts, many of us in this House and I, as Taoiseach, have significant concerns about UHL. We eagerly await the report from retired Chief Justice, Frank Clarke, about what I think will be instructive recommendations on how to proceed. More generally, the Deputy talked about the recruitment embargo. A recruitment embargo would...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...on the floor of the Dáil on the individual cases Deputy Paul Murphy raised. I will consider both of them and will reply to him in writing when I get an up-to-date position from the Minister for Justice on that. Deputy Barry spoke about the Anglesey Street office and the permits. Particularly regarding the ongoing debates on migration in this country, his comments about the...

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

Simon Harris: The committee has yet to discuss that. As Deputy McNamara knows from his participation in the justice committee, it is currently giving consideration to the Pact. I believe the committee asked for more time. It is sensible that such time is provided and then the Government will consider matters if they come back to the Dáil. In addition to the vote on the Pact, obviously any...

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

Simon Harris: .... I would point out that, in extending our all of our sympathies to the family of Aoife Johnston - we are all united in that and are thinking of them - there is the report of the former Chief Justice Frank Clarke due in the next few weeks, commissioned by the Minister, which will be instructive and important. The timing of that debate is something we can perhaps discuss at the Business...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...a really important thing to do. The people on Mount Street and people in Deputy Bacik's constituency would believe that is an important thing to do. Regarding the legislation the Minister for Justice intends to bring forward, she today received permission to draft that. The Minister intends to enact legislation by the end of this month. In that legislation she will outline how she...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...faster processing time because we know that is what helps make a very positive impact on reducing the numbers of people coming to our country. The 80% figure is based on what the Minister for Justice was told. All members of the Government accept and understand that. The point the Tánaiste was making was not in contradiction. He was making the point that there is not a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...the UK or vice versa. It is also true to say, and a statement of fact, that in March our High Court in a ruling said that there was not an adequate legislative basis for this. The Minister for Justice has moved very swiftly and with the full support of all members of Government to clarify that and to close what I have described as a legal loophole. I very much welcome that. I have no...

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,...