{"id":219823,"date":"2025-12-07T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219823\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:13:12","slug":"people-dont-want-simon-harris-as-finance-minister-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219823\/","title":{"rendered":"People don&#8217;t want Simon Harris as Finance Minister, poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">T\u00e1naiste\u2019s new job as Finance Minister has given him  plenty of fresh soundbite material, but his self-appointment is unpopular\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon Harris's switch to Finance has not gone down well with the public. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d458f7f8-cd5b-4e1b-9c40-71b809c05b96.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Simon Harris&#8217;s switch to Finance has not gone down well with the public. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government, in its various guises, has created layers of red tape that delay development. But it\u2019s easier to blame objectors. The public isn\u2019t buying it, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Democracy is fabulous. We had it on full display as Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky came to town last week. After three-and-a-half years of being under continual threat from assassination from the Russians, he was subjected to the dangers of Government backbenchers thrusting themselves forward to shake his hand in the D\u00e1il chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste\u2019s new job as Finance Minister has given him plenty of fresh soundbite material, but his self-appointment is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,71760,18,17858,13,14,4771,553,18613,6,14370,19,17,19487,11,12,15,16,5765,5,46,118805,44,7,8,551,5445],"class_list":{"0":"post-219823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-department-of-finance-dof","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-enda-kenny","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-fianna-fail","16":"tag-fine-gael","17":"tag-fionnan-sheahan","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-helen-mcentee","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-jim-gavin","23":"tag-latest-news","24":"tag-latestnews","25":"tag-main-news","26":"tag-mainnews","27":"tag-micheal-martin","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-paschal-donohoe","30":"tag-richard-bruton","31":"tag-simon-harris","32":"tag-top-stories","33":"tag-topstories","34":"tag-ukraine","35":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115677286189673310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}