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Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I am being very lenient. It would be wrong if I were not lenient to Senator Bacik. As a result, I am being as lenient to her as to everybody else.

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I say to Senator Bacik that Members facilitated the passage of the legislation quite quickly and I said I would let them speak on Fifth Stage. I may be regretting it slightly. I call Senator Gavan and ask him to be as brief as possible. Most of his colleagues have said a lot of what he would have said otherwise.

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I was trying to get other Members to be brief and will certainly attempt to be brief myself. I wanted to step out of the Chair to make comments I would not otherwise have been able to make. Almost all issues have been addressed but I particularly congratulate and thank Senator Lawless for putting the legislation forward, along with his co-sponsors, Senators Boyhan, Craughwell and McDowell....

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I did not say the Senator did but just in case-----

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all Members for their support, along with Fianna Fáil and the Minister.

Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the passing of the Bill and I thank the Minister of State. Less than two weeks ago we did not have one of these Bills and now we have two of them, being the Sinn Féin Bill from last week and the Government Bill of this week. This Bill supersedes and ultimately replaces most of what was in the Sinn Féin Private Members' Bill from last week. That is not to say that it was...

Seanad: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We had a very good Second Stage debate on Tuesday about this matter and a very detailed Committee Stage analysis in the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach when the Minister of State himself was a member of it, along with Senator O'Donnell and me as Vice Chairman. We have looked into this and it is a good idea to be involved in it. It is estimated that our...

Seanad: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State and his staff for the work involved. I wish the office well. We had a good Second Stage debate on this Bill. It came to the committee as well. It makes sense for expertise to be centralised in one area. Hopefully that will be the case. We have plenty of staff here. It looks like the Fine Gael Members had more vocal concerns than the rest of us today, but I...

Seanad: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I did not mention the word "quango" and it is probably a bit of a sensitive word. I am sure if we were to look back at the 145 bodies that were identified in 2011 by Fine Gael, many of them-----

Seanad: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: -----might not fit the criteria to be redefined as a quango under the Minister's direction either. I welcome the Minister of State and I congratulate him on his new appointment. He is getting on very well, from what I can see, in his new Department with his new senior Minister with whom I do not doubt he has a wonderful relationship. It is the last sitting of the Seanad in this Chamber...

Seanad: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: But look at you now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The Chairman is very easy to get on with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Many issues have been addressed already but I wish to discuss a few points. It is fair to acknowledge national enterprise week and the workbench partnership spaces. My branch in Montrose might have been one of the first to go cashless. Actually, I know that these branches are not cashless. Mr. McLoughlin is shaking his head because he does not like the phrase but they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Did that include every direct debit - for example, salary payments? What is the definition of "transaction"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I am sorry to cut across Mr. McLoughlin, but were automated direct debits and salary payments not included in the figure in the first instance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. McLoughlin just mean phones or does that number also include iPads and laptops?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Previously, Mr. McLoughlin attended a committee meeting with Mr. Boucher, whose work with the bank we should acknowledge and who we should wish well in his retirement. I was not having a go at the branch system, but I asked Mr. Boucher whether we were moving towards a cashless society. He felt that we were not and said people liked having cash. The concept now is that people are almost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I hope Mr. McLoughlin does not foresee a situation in which anyone with cash on deposit will be charged for the privilege of the bank minding it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: It is not in the bank's business model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Horkan: In response to Senator Conway-Walsh, Mr. McLoughlin referred to bonuses. Are there no bonuses any more?