Simon Harris — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Tánaiste and Minister for Finance of Ireland since 2025.
Leader of Fine Gael since 2024.
Served as Taoiseach from 2024 to 2025, becoming the youngest holder of the office at age 37.
TD for the Wicklow constituency since 2011.
Previously held ministerial roles including Minister for Health (2016), Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (2020), and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Minister for Defence (January to November 2025).
Elected to Wicklow County Council in 2009.
Became politically active as a teenager, campaigning for children with autism and attention deficit disorder.

Biography

Simon Harris is a prominent Irish Fine Gael politician, currently serving as Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland) and Minister for Finance since 2025. He assumed the leadership of Fine Gael in 2024. From 2024 to 2025, he held the office of Taoiseach (Prime Minister), becoming the youngest person in the state's history to do so at the age of 37.