General election ‘won’t be on the 15th of November’, Simon Harris says amid continued speculation
President Michael D Higgins with Taoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheal Martin during the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Photograph: Maxwell’sTaoiseach Simon Harris has revealed he will return to the United States in two weeks time to meet US President Joe Biden in the White House.
When it was put to him that he would be back in the States shortly, he said: “yes, two weeks.” His trip to Washington DC in early October comes amid continued speculation within political circles that he will call a general election in the same time period. Asked if he would bring forward the committee stage consideration of the Finance Bill, which is due to be considered in early November, he said: “I have no role in that. It’s a matter for the line minister to schedule those things. We have a budget to get done. We have housing targets to set, a national planning framework to agree. We’ve important legislation around mental health, defamation, all these things to progress.
“There will certainly be a good level of increase in support for pensioners, for carers, for people with a disability. I do want to focus on this budget, on children. We’ve set up a child poverty unit in my department. We have to now make, I believe, a number of important targeted interventions in relation to child poverty. There’s also children who are living below the poverty line today.”
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