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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: You cannot just erect a tent wherever you want and start blockading streets. You cannot do it. I know that is the Deputy's politics.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: It is not what this Government will stand over. We will provide people with shelter and sanitation. As a result of our work-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: -----the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has provided hundreds more people with access to safe accommodation.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy has no solutions at all but he does not want any, in fairness to him.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Pringle for raising this issue. I know this has been extraordinarily tough and difficult. Those words do not fully capture the struggle and the stress that many families living in the Deputy's county and some other counties have been dealing with as a result of the loss and destruction of their homes due to defective blocks. We have worked very hard on this issue as a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: It is always interesting when the Dáil reconvenes after an election and people decide to present the election results in whatever way suits them. All I know is that more people went out and voted for my party than any other party. More people went out and gave Fianna Fáil seats in the local elections than any other party. Many people voted for the Green Party. The people on this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: Be careful, so.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I am not really sure where to start there. There will be a general election in due course. I am really looking forward to it because there will definitely be alternative political views on offer. I am not sure who is in this left coalition or whether Sinn Féin is in it. Maybe its members are not sure themselves either, but they will work it out after they have the review. Every...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I congratulate Deputy Cairns on the election of the councillors from her party. I wish everybody who was elected well. Lots of people voted for my party as well, and for my coalition party colleagues in Fianna Fáil and the Green Party. Her view of how people view the political situation is not always in line with what the people actually decided to do at the ballot box on Friday....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: In your view.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I did not say we are doing a report. We do not need any more reports. I said that between now and budget day, we will review the means test. When I talk to carers-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I referred to the respite investment plan. There are two different issues involved. Let us take them sequentially. In regard to the means test, when I go around the country, there are too many people who find it a bit mean. We want to make the means test more generous and understanding in order that more carers can benefit. That is why this week - Deputy Cairns can shake her head all...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: -----because those are the schools attended by the children with the most complex needs. They rely on the provision of the service.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy should not come in here with her one setting of performative outrage. Let us actually engage on the substance of the issue, namely the fact that more schools are availing of the programme and that a Minister of State with responsibility for special educational needs is, for the first time ever, sitting at the Cabinet table.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: We also have a Cabinet sub-committee to break down silos and end bureaucracy. That is what people want. They do not just wan us to define the problems; they want us to come up with solutions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I would have thought Deputy McDonald had learnt that this weekend.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thought Deputy McDonald would be trying humility today.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this important issue. It is important because parents of children with special educational needs do rely on the summer provision. It provides excellent support to children during the summer period. It The programme also provides excellent support to families. I assure parents who are watching in today that I intend to prioritise special educational...