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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: They are more concerned with public liability than employer liability. Employer liability is an issue but public liability is the one that really concerns them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Will the Minister of State ensure that both organisations-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Deputy Doherty should be aware the committee must be finished by 11 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The Deputy still has 20 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I have to stop Deputy Doherty now. He will have an opportunity to take this up in the House later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We received a 30-page update on the recommendations, which will be circulated rather than read into the Official Report and taking up half the meeting. I thank members for their contributions. Deputy Doherty will have an opportunity to pursue this discussion in the House later. Central Bank officials will appear before the committee on Tuesday, 4 April. I thank the Minister of State...

Seanad: Recent Education Announcements: Statements (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I appreciate the opportunity to contribute. I was at a meeting of the finance committee so I was not able to be present for the whole debate. I want to touch on one aspect, that of admissions. I represented Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, many of whose schools are quite oversubscribed. I am on my fifth term on the board of management of a secondary school. I have been on the boards of two...

Seanad: Recent Education Announcements: Statements (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Not all of those schools are oversubscribed either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Broderick for his opening statement. Regarding the banking form to which he referred, fortunately or unfortunately, corporate governance requires under law that the banks and the directors of the banks do the best for their shareholders. This does not mean they cannot or should not look after their customers or staff. One hopes that ideally they will look after all of them....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Regarding the impact of State ownership on the various institutions with which Mr. Broderick's members work, it appears the Government intends over time to unwind State ownership. What are his thoughts on the impact of State ownership on banks' day to day operations and how it has affected the banking industry, the Financial Services Union's members and the Irish economy? I do not think it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Broderick believe that State ownership in the long term would be a good thing or that it should be in the fullness of time wound down? Does he think it is better that the Government has ownership or involvement with the banking sector or not? I am only the general secretary of a union. I am not going to give a political speech about what is in their interests. The reality,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Mr. Broderick mentioned that there are about 15,000 members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: They are split between the Republic of Ireland, the North of Ireland and Britain. What is the split there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: So it is mainly AIB and Bank of Ireland staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Mr. Broderick referred to starting salaries of about €23,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Presumably, Mr. Broderick's members are generally the day-to-day operations people in branches, but also in call centres, various technology sectors and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Broderick have any idea of the average salary of those workers, as opposed to the multiple of 65 times the base to get to the top? What does an average FSU member earn?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: No, it is just to get an idea of the members Mr. Broderick is representing. He is not representing these chief executives or the IFSC people on €200,000, €300,000 or more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I am sure that from 2008 to 2010, those individual staff members felt the brunt of public dissatisfaction with banks' decisions. In the same way, many back bench politicians and councillors would have felt the impact of what was being done from the top. In my own branch I heard of stories of people getting awful personal abuse about what the banks were doing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: They were only the messengers. One can equally understand the frustration of people who were getting letters and facing this behaviour. I am trying to get an understanding of Mr. Broderick's membership, where they are coming from and the kind of work they do. People can now do a degree of mobile banking that they could not do two, three or four years ago. Most of us now only go into a...