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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: They will apply to the other 26.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Will the fuel arrive already blended and just go into the tanks as is? It is not a case of the airport having to blend it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: That is COM (2021) 561.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: That will most likely increase fares as it will put a charge onto the airlines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: From an Irish perspective, we are more dependent on aviation than any other EU countries except Malta and Cyprus. Everyone else is connected by rail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is the EU scheme more onerous than the international scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is it 50% more expensive or 10% more expensive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: It would be useful for us to know because, obviously, we are competing with other parts of the world and places not too far away that are not in the EU scheme. If it is ten times more expensive or 10% more expensive, it is important to know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I did not mention "The Late Late Show", I mentioned late bars, but anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Who sets the price? What is the mechanism? Is it decided by the European Commission? Who does this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I am trying to bring together all the different thoughts. As a State we have signed up to cutting our emissions and we have to get to that, regardless of how we do it. If we do more on transport, arguably we might have to do a little less on agriculture, if we did a bit more on agriculture, we would have to do a little less on transport. Whether we like it or not we as a Parliament, be it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Yes, but that does not affect us. We do not need to do a reasoned opinion on a COM because of the position on LNG. That is not one of the COMs-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: What we are saying is there are six COMs, three of them are aviation related, one is maritime related and one is to do with cars and so on, and the Department is not telling us we need to flag any of them, but we may choose to say the aviation one is just too vague or that the car one is. We do not manufacture cars but obviously over time cars are to be become more efficient. We all accept...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: The alternatives are, I suppose, matters for the Chairman or the clerk.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Some people are suggesting the committee should bring in many more groups to discuss this issue. We may not be able to do that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Nov 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I welcome the COP26 statement. I just read the remarks of the Taoiseach, who was speaking as we started the Order of Business. It is very important, as a number of people have said, that we all play our part in every way we can, be that through a small thing or a big thing. That might be not buying as much food when we do not really need it, which Senator O'Loughlin referred to, or...
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (2 Nov 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Leas-Cathaoirleach. Maybe I will use the minute and a half Mr. Andrews did not use end of my speech. This is a very important day. Ireland is a member of the European Union since 1973. I do not believe this process has happened before, namely, MEPs coming into the Seanad Chamber and addressing the Senators. It is very worthwhile. The MEPs might not realise it but they are...
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I will share time with Senator Cassells. We will take three minutes each. I am very happy to support this motion, which Senators Kyne and Buttimer and the Fine Gael group have tabled. There is almost nothing to object to in it. It is all very positive. I had not even considered it a motion just on public transport, which is what the screen is telling us it is, because it is not really...
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Senator. It did.
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Gerry Horkan: It did. Perhaps Senator Boyhan should cycle too. It would probably be of benefit to us all to get a bit more exercise. That modal shift should not only be to public transport, although public transport is very useful. Although Senators Boyhan and McDowell probably do, many people may not remember the furore over the quality bus corridor for the 46A taking over a lane of traffic of two...