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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...were more social homes provided than were provided last year. More than 4,000 affordable housing supports were also delivered last year through approved housing bodies, local authorities, the Land Development Agency, the first home scheme, the cost-rental tenant in situscheme and the vacant property refurbishment grant. This represents a massive increase of 128% on the previous year as...

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

Simon Harris: ...shows how serious this country, on a legislative basis, wants to take the issue of human trafficking because the issue highlighted is indeed extremely important. We saw some progress in relation to Ireland's rating in the Trafficking in Persons report. It is nothing to write home about. We have a lot of work to do in relation to this situation. However, in 2022 we saw some positive...

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

Simon Harris: ...been very clear that when we look through the 15 recommendations that pertain to the Government there will be a clear need for legislative change. Wherever, and somewhat regardless of where, we land on a funding model, there will need to be in addition to it a piece of legislation brought forward. My understanding is that our initial thinking is one piece of legislation to address a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...delivered through our local authorities and approved housing bodies. That was the largest level of delivery in many decades. You would have to go back to the 1970s to match that. We have also provided a land acquisition fund with an initial €125 million in funding to the Housing Agency because we want to provide solutions for Niamh, Anthony, Jennifer and crucially for children....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...grant is just one of many schemes which are helping people breathe new life into existing homes. Applications have now been received in every local authority, with over 4,300 approved to date. On State lands, building continues apace on a number of sites this year. For example, almost 300 new homes will be completed by the Land Development Agency at Shanganagh later this year, while...

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

Simon Harris: ...need to shake his head; it is happening in my constituency. The second is that once we clear Mount Street and provide people with a safer setting and access to sanitation, we need to make sure that the laws of the land are applied and it is not allowed to happen again because we do not live in a country where makeshift shantytowns are allowed to just develop. We do not and we cannot...

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: ...new statement of strategy for the Department will be published in the coming months. Despite a backdrop of weakening growth and rising international economic uncertainty in recent months, including the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, Ireland's domestic economy continues to perform strongly. This is evident in the number of people at work, namely, a new record level of...

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

Simon Harris: ...at the appropriate time on abortion services. We should take that issue to the Business Committee. I am sure Members will want to discuss that matter. Similarly, some of the other issues around land use and Shannon, etc., can be explored at the Business Committee. Deputy Shortall raised the important issue of long Covid payments, as well as the importance of that to the workers we...

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

Simon Harris: ...the Environment, Climate and Communications with special responsibly for postal policy; Senator Pippa Hackett to be Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine with special responsibility for land use and biodiversity; and Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to be Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and at the Department of Foreign Affairs with special...

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

Simon Harris: ...State with responsibility for international road transport and logistics at the Department of Transport as well as Minister of State for postal policy at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Senator Pippa Hackett as Minister of State for land use and biodiversity at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I also propose to nominate Deputy Jennifer Carroll...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (23 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...HEI involved and Israeli members in the Table supplied. The smallest of these projects has 8 members situated across the European region, while the largest has 159. Ten Higher Education Institutes from Ireland are currently taking part in these projects: Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Munster Technological University, Technological University Dublin, Trinity...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...the final stages of the CPO process with the “Notice to Treat” being served. The issuing of this notice is a significant milestone as it places obligations on both the Local Authority and the land owner. Wexford County Council are now working with SETU to develop a masterplan for the entire site, part of which will facilitate a new higher education campus for Wexford....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Harris: ...difficult time as regards flooding right across our country. He referred to some of the places affected: Midleton and other parts of Cork, Wexford, Louth, Newry - this has been an all-island problem - and, yesterday, Galway. I saw my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, in Clarinbridge. I watched a man cry on the news last night as he watched his business be devastated. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: My Department does not own any buildings or land in County Clare. The information in respect of public bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the attached document, should the Deputy wish to contact the aegis bodies directly with her query. Contact E-Mail Addresses for State Bodies under the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: My answer is factual in the sense that I have to work within the laws of the land. Within the law of the land, higher education institutions are autonomous institutions that are responsible for their own day-to-day management and operational affairs. I have responsibility for making sure we put measures in place to help students with the costs of going to college, including the cost of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ...more private accommodation beds. Higher education institutions that provide student-specific accommodation are under the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board. They must comply with the law of the land governing rent reviews. Legislation was introduced in this House in 2021 to cap rent increases at a maximum of 2% in RPZs, in circumstances where general inflation is at a higher...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (21 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...to this point and it is fair to say it is universally awaited and welcomed by all parties. I take the opportunity to pay tribute to the Ursuline Order, which has very generously gifted the Lough Gill campus and additional lands to the new TU upon incorporation. That is an incredible legacy and an incredible gift to education in Ireland. In return, there will be legacy recognition of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: I do not have that breakdown off the top of my head but from memory, approximately 6,000 of the current apprentices are in the craft area. That is roughly speaking where I would imagine we will land. There is a big push on developing craft apprenticeships and working with the construction and retrofitting sectors and the green economy because there are really key and acute issues there. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...student accommodation is a core part of the university experience and the students' well-being and is part of the universities’ contribution to the national effort to maximise housing supply. That message has landed well with universities. My message to them is that they should not tell me there is a student accommodation problem without coming forward with what the universities...