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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The CSO will lose its own information that it believes to be accurate - I do not doubt it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We have statistics such as ten multinationals contributing half the corporation tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Individual companies-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Is it suggested that we should have stronger penalties? Mr. Dalton has said that people are quite happy to pay the fines and not give the CSO the information. Should we have a different regime that incentivises them to comply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Does the requirement to share it at an individual company level come from the VAT number issue in terms of exports versus imports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses for attending at such short notice. We will suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to leave. We then need to make a decision on the decision, which should not take too long.

Seanad: Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (9 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister. Before we commence, I remind Senators that a Senator may speak only once on Report Stage except for the proposer of an amendment who may reply to the discussion on the amendment. On Report Stage each amendment must be seconded. There are four amendments. The first is amendment No. 1 in the names of Senator Norris and Senator Boyhan. It arises from committee...

Seanad: Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (9 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Senator Norris is still feeling sleepy though.

Seanad: Litter Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

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

Seanad: Litter Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I concur with Senator Conway. While I am not the Fianna Fáil Party spokesperson on this matter, I spoke on the Bill on Second Stage and listened to the Minister of State's contributions on it. This is timely and welcome legislation. If anything, the events at the weekend have shown how vulnerable our information systems are to attack. Attacking these systems is a lucrative area. We...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I sometimes take Fine Gael votes. Horkan is very much a Swinford name and my granny on my mother's side is from Ballina. I wish Councillor O'Brien well.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: This is a good day and it is good the Bill was passed with unanimous support.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: As I understand Senator Kieran O'Donnell is in a hurry, he may make a contribution now, provided it is short.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Ideally, it will be both short and concise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I did not expect to be in the Chair but I will ask some questions from here, if that is okay. The witness made reference to being the sherpa. Can he elaborate on what that means for those of us who are not sure, in this context, what it means?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The Department was reconfigured, and we know that Mr. Callinan is the second or additional Secretary General in the Department and that a chunk of the staff that were in the Department of the Taoiseach have moved to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr. Callinan obviously has other responsibilities, including Northern Ireland and the peace process, but how large is his Brexit team...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The witness is saying that between 12 and 15 of his 28 staff are almost full-time on everything related to Brexit at this point in time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We are a finance committee and I will have some particular questions on financial services, passporting and other issues in a moment. There are many different issues and we have covered some of them, but has their been much kick-back from the other 26 member states? Deputy Donnelly alluded earlier to the idea that there are four or five of the 27 member states who will be very affected in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Is the witness happy with the size of his team? Does he feel he needs more people on board or is he finding it difficult to get sufficient expertise? This is a new experience and nobody wanted it to happen, but it is happening. Is the witness under the complement or does he have sufficient numbers for what he needs to do?