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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Did Ms McKiernan get a chance to look at our interaction on Tuesday?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: There was a palpable sense of frustration from most of the speakers who contributed. Ms McKiernan will acknowledge that. Yet, we are getting quite a different position from the Central Bank and the Department of Finance this morning. The previous speakers argued that there was an absolute deficit of meaningful engagement with the Department and the Central Bank. The CUAC report...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We looked at Ms McKiernan's "Mind the Gap" speech. I have read that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I will wrap up with a final couple of small points. Does Ms McKiernan wish to refute any of the issues that were alluded to on Tuesday? Does she wish to say that any of them were not correct and are not what her office wanted? My final point, separate to that, is on an argument that was being put forward, which I was trying to tease out. Nobody was saying that the regulation was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Is the Registrar saying that it is the sector's problem? I am only able to conclude that the sector needs to do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Ms McKiernan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The question is, is it that the sector has to bring forward issues to deal with the common bond in order for the funds to be available for social housing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: On which the credit unions have the majority.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Not yet.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will be speaking on behalf of my colleague, Senator Swanick, who is unfortunately unable to be here today. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill as it was a specific commitment in Fianna Fáil's 2016 general election manifesto. Fianna Fáil supports this Bill which provides a medical card for all children in receipt of the...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I also have to get in.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I will.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I want the Minister of State to have time to respond. I would have been in earlier only for a little oversight, but not to worry. I am in my 14th year as a member of the board of management of a secondary school and my eighth year as chairman of a school board. They are two different schools. I was a member of Ógra Fianna Fáil, one of the largest political youth movements in the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Wind Energy Guidelines (30 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: To clarify, my understanding is the Senator asked for the Minister, Deputy Naughten, to attend. It was actually changed by agreement between the Minister, Deputy Naughten, and the Minister, Deputy Coveney's, Department. The Commencement matter states, "The need for the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government" to attend. In fact, Senator Leyden wants Deputy Naughten...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Wind Energy Guidelines (30 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Senator Leyden. That concludes this matter. I suppose there is not much point in the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, responding.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Prison Accommodation (30 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister to the House. We were both members of the Dublin Mid-Leinster health forum a long time ago, when we were both councillors. Indeed, Senator Devine was a member of that forum subsequently. It is great to see this Bill pass. I spoke on it at length on Tuesday. It represents progress and I welcome it. I agree with Senators Devine, Ó Ríordáin and others...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (30 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We will resume as soon as possible.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I was not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Gerry Horkan: On Brexit and relocation, the Minister of State, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, accused other jurisdictions of regulatory arbitrage and suggested they are making it easier or we are making it difficult or a combination of the two. Obviously, there have been two reasonably high-profile announcements with AIG and Lloyds announcing relocation plans from London to places other than Ireland. While I...