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

Simon Harris: Once again, I wish to say that the health concerns of people and making sure any developments we bring about are compliant with people's health and well-being is absolutely important. I appreciate the Deputy saying that he sees the benefit of the guidelines. I share his view on this. Having clarity on this would be helpful for people, including with regard to solar, by the way. When I go...

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

Simon Harris: They are not going to Gaza.

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

Simon Harris: That was quite an extraordinary attempt to suggest that the country in the European Union, which has done more for and in standing by the people of Palestine is somehow or other complicit in an illegal, despicable genocide that is taking place.

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

Simon Harris: There you go. You said it now. The mask slips very quickly with you, Deputy.

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

Simon Harris: The way this place works is that the Deputy asks a question and then I have the right to answer. It is a democracy, so I ask that my mandate be respected too because I would like to answer the question. Surely to God, it does not need to be the case in everything that the Deputy is morally superior than everyone over here. Surely to God, sometimes we can actually recognise that it does...

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.