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Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take the next Stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: We have had that conversation a few times here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Deputy Matthews. I would not like the rumour to go out that I am the real Chair. I may have been the Acting Chair for a year and a half but I am not the real Chair. I am just the Vice Chair by the consent of the committee. I apologise for being late; I had a previous engagement that I had attend. Of all the times I was not here for the start, I am very sorry that it was when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I remember being at the launch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I have to go through the Minister's area to get to mine so they are one and the same.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: We are looking at Dublin as a city, and the thing people want most is a reliable transport system. The reliability is more important than frequency. Frequency is obviously brilliant because if a service goes missing, the next one comes along and if people know it is coming every 15 minutes and guaranteed to get them in by a certain journey time, they buy into that. People have bought into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: And almost no cars.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I am conscious of time. Deputy O'Connor wants to come in and I will bring him in shortly. What else can TDs and Senators do as public representatives in our communities by way of encouragement and promotion of this? I cycle in most days, including this morning. I get in much faster than I would ever have done in a car. A lot of people may not have realised how easy it is in many places...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The constituency where I am and which the Minister used to represent, the old Dublin South, is absolutely transformed. There were no QBCs 25 years ago, there was no Luas and even no M50. It is absolutely transformed. We take everything for granted, but it used to take an hour to get from Goatstown to Knocklyon and it does not now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The two of us are probably making it more local, but there you go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: We had Kenny Jacobs in here last week. We will not go into the airport for now, but he was saying in 2002 or something 5% of people went to the airport by public transport and it is now 34%. I recall being on the Aircoach when it was empty 20 and 25 years ago and now I will struggle to get a seat on some its services as they are so full. People are making that jump to public transport...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: You do not mean me though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I call Deputy Matthews.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I will see if I can squeeze in Senator Dolan for about a minute in about two minutes' time. I am conscious that the Minister needs to be gone by 3.30 p.m. As regards the examples all around where I live, Minister, and not too far from where you live, if you build it, they will come. If you put in the services, it will work. The figures for the 46A, I think, and now, by extension, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: We drive but there are times when it easier to get a bike.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Slowly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister and his officials, in both of his briefs but particularly in the area of transport. Hopefully you may still be in the same job next week.