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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Is it fair to say that those links exist? In some parts of the country, for example, in particular areas of cities and towns, people are more prone to make claims than in other areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Are those links ever reported to the Garda?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Does the same apply to AXA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Can insurance companies refuse cover or is cover priced in such a way as to ensure the people concerned will never want to buy a company's product?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: AXA will not offer to cover 10% of the market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I need two more minutes. I am the chairman of a school board and I know of other schools that were in a group insurance scheme. I think it was an Allianz group scheme. The scheme finished and the cost of insurance increased from €27,000 to €34,000. The school was informed that it had been in a good scheme but that scheme was over. No new scheme would replace it or the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: We will have another day.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I wish to pass on my sympathies and those of the Fianna Fáil Party to the family of John Bailey, including his daughter, Deputy Maria Bailey, his wife, his other four daughters, their partners and his grandchildren, and the Fine Gael family generally. I worked closely with John. We sat together on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. I was there a little bit before him, but for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I agree.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Yes. Even leaving out the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, the past few weeks have seen a large number of Bills from that Department. Like Senator Craughwell, I chair the House quite a bit. I was on a local authority for 12 and a half years. Senator Craughwell was not, but he knows many people who were. The agenda is the agenda and it flows from one item to the next. If we set...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: It is.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: It is done in the Dáil.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: The Dáil runs its business the same way we do, but speaking as someone who chairs the House-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Senator Ó Donnghaile. I was not looking for that. The business of today, tomorrow, Thursday and Friday will flow better if we allow items to flow into one another.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Something might take 20 minutes or an hour and a half. If it takes 20 minutes after we set down a time of an hour and a half, though, we will be sitting around waiting for another hour and ten minutes for the next business. We would have to bring Ministers-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Members of the public can watch on television or be in attendance whenever they like. They are more than welcome to be here. I will sign anyone in at any time. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council or any of the 30 other local authorities will meet at 5 p.m. and do its business. Sometimes, it will not get through half its business that day and will have to return to it the next month...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: We might not get our business done efficiently. If a formal amendment has been proposed about affixing times to everything, I wish to object to it. In the interests of all Members and the efficient management of the House's business, it would be better.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: The Ministers are as able to accommodate us as much as we accommodate them, Senator, whom I thank for interrupting. Those are my thoughts for the day.

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charles Flanagan, to the House. This is a Seanad Bill which has been amended by the Dáil. In accordance with Standing Order 148, it is deemed to have passed its First, Second and Third Stages in the Seanad and is placed on the Order Paper for Report Stage. On the question "That the Bill be received for final consideration", the...