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Seanad: Department of Rural and Community Development: Statements (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The order is that the Minister will speak first. Group spokespersons will have eight minutes and all other Senators will have five minutes. There is no concluding time so we will continue until all Senators who indicate have spoken.

Seanad: Department of Rural and Community Development: Statements (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: On my own behalf and on behalf of all of us, I wish you and your Department the very best in its new configuration. We had a Bill in the House over the summer making sure that you could be set up within the rules. I call on Senator Robbie Gallagher. You have eight minutes.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We did not even have a go at the Senator over Cuba.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: No response is required.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all of the witnesses who have addressed the committee during the first session this morning. Everybody gave a great contribution. We heard about the various roles that have been played by those with a historical involvement with the national anthem. I would like to address a few points to each of the speakers.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: That is what I am saying. I congratulate the Lord Mayor of Cork on the great initiative. He was a North Mon boy. I was a Christian Brothers boy in my day. They all come under the Edmund Rice Schools Trust. I have been on school boards of management for 15 years. I have spent nine years as chairman of a board. I think the Lord Mayor's initiative, which got schools involved, was a...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. The Minister of State has been in this Chamber many times but he used to sit in a different chair. I am sure he is not aspiring to get back to his old spot any time soon.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: As Fianna Fáil finance spokesman in the Seanad and having formerly worked alongside the Minister of State as a fellow member of the finance committee, we have interacted many times. I thank him for his detailed and comprehensive statement this morning. The various Departments which refer to the national anthem on their websites, including the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: That alone would be a useful result. I thank the experts who spoke this morning, Dr. Eoin O'Dell and Ms Hazel Tunney, and the pupils from Bishopstown community college and Eureka secondary school. A past pupil of the latter school, Martina Fitzgerald of RTÉ, came in earlier and is still in the Gallery, which gives the delegates a good chance of making the news. Senators would love...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I must clarify that I meant all other Departments should align with the Department of Finance.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I am aware of some of the other people who are yet to make contributions, and I will try not to replicate what has already been said. It is very important that we acknowledge all of our visitors today, including Mary Hanafin, John Hanafin, Des's wife, Mona, and their three grandchildren, MaryClaire, Darragh and John, along with Deputy Jackie Cahill, who is here from Des's native Thurles....

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We are dealing with section 2, to which no recommendations are proposed. Sinn Féin is opposing the tax cut proposed in section 2. It has proposed recommendation No. 1, which we will consider when we reach section 5. This recommendation would provide for a tax cut. Sinn Féin cannot propose tax cuts in its recommendations while opposing tax cuts under a different section of the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I agree with Senator O'Donnell. If we are not careful, the State will have to pay substantial fines for not meeting our targets in regard to carbon emissions. If we are to face such fines, it would be better to front-load that investment instead. I appreciate that technology is constantly improving and we will be discussing electric vehicles in section 8 in a moment but we need to rapidly...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Recommendation No. 2 in my name is listed under section 8 but it might be more relevant to this section. Perhaps we should deal with it now and the Minister of State is half-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: It does not.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I will not miss my slot.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I move recommendation No. 2:In page 11, after line 33, to insert the following:“8. The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the possibility of extending the Benefit in Kind for electric vehicles beyond the current date of 31 December 2018.”. As regards benefit-in-kind, it is important that if we are asking...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State is committing to do what I am asking for.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I ask for a timeframe for that to be done.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: The benefit-in-kind report will be published in the next 12 months or less.