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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Compromise happened and people understood the other side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: On adequate resourcing of approval bodies and of the Judiciary, does Mr. Walsh believe they are inadequately resourced at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Walsh is asking for them to be adequately resourced which would suggest to me that he believes they are not adequately resourced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Is it just the length of time it takes to make the decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. The public works contract has gone to the non-NEC form of contract. What would be the practical difference in that? I do not know this, and I am sure many people looking in do not know, but what is the difference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: How many contractors in Ireland are likely to be looking, roughly speaking? If TII put out a contract for a road building project, how many tenderers based in Ireland are likely to be looking at that? Is it two or three or 20 or 30?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: That was a public works contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: When did it change from one to the other?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: So, on getting that derogation, TII had nine people interested in applying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: This time around with the public works contract, only three applied.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Walsh feel that if it went back to the NEC-type contract, he would be more likely to get nine or maybe more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Does he think it is worth an experiment to try it again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: While Mr. Walsh is here, is there a timeline in terms of the Galway ring road project? I know Mr. Walsh more or less said it will take much longer than it should. If all these judicial reviews were not successful and the approval was to take place, has he any idea when might people be able to use that road?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: If every judicial review vanished tomorrow morning and Mr. Walsh had permission to proceed, it would be five years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: That is optimistic. In terms of judicial reviews, I know there is probably an element of asking how long is a piece of string? Generally speaking, how long do they take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: So, it was approximately four years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The eastern bypass has been removed as an objective and has vanished. There are road reservations along that route. Has Mr. Walsh any ideas or otherwise for greenways or anything else TII might do on any of that route?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The council would be dealing directly with the NTA.
- Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Senator Ruane. I note Senator Higgins wishes to come back in. Does any other Senator wish to come back in also on section 3? No.
- Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I must point out that the note for the information of the Chair to rule amendments Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, 113, 181, 182 and 187 out of order is that they would require the commission to regulate the use of algorithms, microtargeting and recommender systems. These additional responsibilities would potentially involve a significantly increased expenditure on the part of the media commission and they...