The 37-year-old father of two has been at the helm of three departments over an eight-year period.
Simon Harris, a social media-savvy politician who was inspired to get into politics after his brother’s autism diagnosis, has become Ireland’s youngest premier.
Simon Harris leaves the Dail in Dublin following the vote by Irish parliamentarians to elect him Taoiseach As a young boy growing up in the seaside town of Greystones in Co Wicklow, he is reported to have said he wanted to be taoiseach – though his mother said he had also considered being a vet at one stage.
He said that his family did not have a “political lineage” but that the first politician they knew was the former Fianna Fail TD for Wicklow Dick Roche, for whom they distributed leaflets.After cutting his political teeth as an assistant to former justice minister Frances Fitzgerald when she was a senator, and then working as a councillor, he was elected to the Irish parliament as its youngest TD in 2011, aged 24.His maiden speech in the Dail was to nominate Mr Kenny as taoiseach.
In the February 2020 general election, he was returned on the 15th count and remained as a caretaker health minister.In the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, he urged people to wear face coverings and adhere to new rules, but was criticised for an absence of planning for nursing homes.
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