Results 1-20 of 46 for going forward speaker:Gerry Horkan

Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister back to the House and congratulate her on her reappointment to her role. Her voice is causing a bit of difficulty today. I am not going to repeat everything in my briefing notes, much of which was outlined in the Minister's speech and in Senator Ward's contribution. Indeed even Senator Keogan is on the same side on this one so we seem to have relative unanimity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I am going to interrupt Deputy Leddin briefly. I would like to leave and I ask Deputy Matthews to come in. I thank Mr. Meade, Mr. Kenny and Mr. Hendrick for their full three-hour engagement with the committee. They can see the appetite is here from both committee members and non-committee members. who are all interested in all of what Irish Rail is doing, as are public representatives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...extremely high value. Aviation is so necessary for such a small open economy, such as the one we have, that is so dependent on exports and producing certain things for the world that we are very good at producing. Equally, however, people need to appreciate that we do not have the rail network, such as they have in the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, France or Germany. We did not...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Annita Demetriou, Speaker of the Cypriot House of Representatives (13 Jun 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...on behalf of the transport committee and people told me they could get trains everywhere, decarbonise and not use aviation. We had to remind them we are not all able to jump on a train and go anywhere in Europe. Cyprus and Malta are the same. We need to co-operate with each other and remind people there is no one-size-fits-all answer when dealing with decarbonisation of things like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Gerry Horkan: -----that level of borrowing, equity or debt. They might even have the skillset in negotiating with the EU about the procurement of grants, etc. They are the skillsets going forward that the board will need in the future but may not have been needed as much in the past.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ukraine War: Ambassadors of Ukraine and Moldova (21 Feb 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...behave. I was chairing another meeting earlier so I was not here for all of the opening statements. I am here in solidarity with the witnesses and what they are all doing for Ukraine. I remember going out on the Thursday morning of the invasion and meeting the Ukrainian ambassador and the Polish ambassador at the time. It does not feel like a year ago. There has been wanton...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy (Resumed): Regional Airports (15 Feb 2023)

Gerry Horkan: I am going to bring the meeting to a conclusion. Again, I thank you all for all you are doing in your regions for domestic consumers, for tourists who come into your areas, for the businesses in your areas and for the people who live here now but who visit friends and relatives back home where they have come from and for bringing people to Ireland for all kinds of reasons. I look forward to...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...well made. I am sorry I was not here for the whole debate on Committee Stage because I was chairing a transport committee. It is a very useful and good Bill. There is an awful lot in it. I look forward to all of it being implemented and so on. We are not yet at the Final Stage. It would be remiss of us not to acknowledge that almost €290 million in active travel measures was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Gerry Horkan: There have been about ten or 15 references to it. For a long time, we were trying to get the pubs open on Good Friday. It now seems to be the day people should not go to the airport. The point was touched on that 20 minutes should not really be the base. I acknowledge that I have recently, in December, gone through Dublin Airport in less than ten minutes. However, I would like to see more...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Apr 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...other issues in a holistic way. In this House, we tend to spend half a day, an hour here or there or two hours on another day discussing these matters, but we need to put an emphasis on how we go forward and do everything we can – recycling, reducing, upcycling and so on – to reduce our consumption. I wish to pay tribute to all of the staff of the Houses as we go on the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I know that the census has been mentioned already but I am not sure the point I am going to make has been mentioned. I met the Romanian ambassador this morning. It is really important that all our new Irish right across the country make sure they record their status and identity and let us know they are here. In planning the curriculum, for example, if we know there are more than 100,000...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Mar 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I am not going to repeat everything in the Minister of State's speech and the briefing notes, given he has already very well articulated the purpose of this Bill. As a party, Fianna Fáil, the party of Government, supports this Government legislation which is effectively bringing Garda compensation claims within the remit of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. As a former...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ukraine's Application for Membership of the European Union: Engagement with Ambassador of Ukraine. (15 Mar 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...just for EU membership but for the three countries - the Association Trio, as Mr. Zurabashvili referred to them in his speech - that one would not get priority over another and that they would all go in tandem. We joined the European Union as a very poor country back in 1973 along with Denmark and the United Kingdom at the time. Membership has tended to come waves, as we know, with ten...

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...of State and the Department to Senator McDowell's very clear and damning acknowledgement of what is happening in this part of western China. I certainly do not doubt the findings of what is going on. There are far too many people involved from different organisations, including the United Nations and the Uyghur Tribunal. I take the point from the diplomatic service, the Minister of...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...scale and in a very respectable park, for example, one might pull back a piece of foliage and see 26 bags of something. One wonders at the effort to get them under that hedge. It might have been easier to go to a bring centre or leave them at a refuse centre. The effort to leave them in the park, probably in the dead of night, would have been significant. Senator Cummins indicated this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...by the witnesses and the organisations they are involved with. I thank them all for everything they do. I do not think any of us could replace the personal contributions that were made and brought forward by them today. It is very important for us and for anyone involved in drafting the legislation to realise the lived experience of people who are in wheelchairs, who have sight...

Seanad: Maternity-Paternity Leave for County and City Councillors: Motion (7 Dec 2021)

Gerry Horkan: .... We need to look at the paternity and maternity leave, we need to look at all of the barriers. People are already sacrificing, potentially, part of their career. They are opting out, having to go to council meetings and having to turn up. The times of these meetings in different parts of the country may suit different people but generally they are held during the day. This means that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Gerry Horkan: ...in other jobs. Perhaps some of them are retired or whatever. Is it an organisation that can continue to have such a ratio of only 82 full-time people versus 900 volunteers? Is it fit for purpose going into the 21st century, with all the issues it is facing? I note the organisation has a pollution response service, which I did not know about. It responds to maritime casualties and has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: ...that in Luton or in loads of other places. It is important to know that one has pre-clearance when one lands in America. A flight could be delayed and it happened to me one time; we were supposed to be going to Chicago and the runway there was covered in snow so we were in Milwaukee for four hours. I got back to Chicago and made my flight connection by about ten minutes but I had a...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: ...around the Chamber, I note that the Minister of State is a barrister, as are four of my colleagues. We are dealing with a justice matter, but this is technical legislation that we are bringing forward. We are trying to transpose legislation and recommendations from the EU and the UN into Irish law. Regarding research on this Bill, and the concept, I welcome the briefing note that we got...