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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the National Cyber Security Bill 2024: Cyber Ireland (17 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: If the committee is making recommendations, we should make sure we talk to the people who have to implement the stuff about whether it is workable and what the challenges and problems are. I do not mean that we should bow down and accept everything they say as the right way forward, but we should tease matters out with them in order to ensure that the eventual Bill will be workable and will...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I said exactly the same to her outside.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The Leas-Chathaoirleach will always have a place for her to stay, no doubt.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: And you are the result of it all.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and the Minister. I also thank Senator Craughwell for being so brief. I will try to be as brief; I am not sure if I will be that brief. We should have renamed this "Tributes to Heather Humphreys Day" - why not? Maybe we should do that tomorrow or the next day. I congratulate her, as I did in the anteroom on the way in. I said I did not know if it should...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The Senator is another two.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: In a good and positive way.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: No wonder the Minister is retiring.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I waited to listen to the Minister's response before I came in. It is a well-intentioned amendment and what we are all trying to do and what we all need to try to do is to look at why so many businesses are under so much pressure. Their margins are getting tighter and tighter and it is not just that the minimum wage goes up, everybody else's wages have to go up because the minimum wage has...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: It has well passed.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Not this time.

Seanad: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I chaired the Second Stage debate on the Bill last Thursday, which we got through reasonably quickly. I had a fair idea that there was no opposition here on Thursday on Second Stage. This Bill has unanimity and zero opposition. This does not happen too often. I commend the Minister and his officials on the work they have done on this to ensure there was literally no opposition to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I am slightly out of breath after cycling in from Dún Laoghaire.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Yes, perhaps let one of the others go first and I will come back in.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and the Deputy Leader for outlining the Order of Business. I welcome the Austrian ambassador and her team to Leinster House, and I wish all Austrians living in Ireland and around the world a happy national day. It is important we acknowledge the support of all our European partners, and the benefits of Europe and the EU in being able to work, travel,...