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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I wish to draw the attention of the public, Chamber and Leader to the fact that Ulster Bank today announced it is going to start freezing accounts. As the Leas-Chathaoirleach will appreciate, Ulster Bank has been a very large and important financial institution in the history of this State, really since the foundation of the State. It is a major thing for a large bank like Ulster Bank to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I read the opening statements last night and followed the earlier discussion from my office. I will try not to repeat things that have been mentioned. I thank the witnesses for attending to discuss this important topic. As one of the few members of this committee who lives in Dublin, I appreciate that running a public transport system is not the easiest thing in the world to do,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: It is clearly a testament to how important the issues are that so many members of the committee and other Members of the Houses are here. Councillor Damien O'Reilly from Ratoath points out that the Go-Ahead 270 bus service from Dunboyne to Blanchardstown fails every day. The service has been disastrous since Go-Ahead took it from Dublin Bus. Buses do not show up every day and the company...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I do not wish to interrupt but I want to address the real time passenger information, RTPI, system. I can go on an app or a website and look at flight radar. It shows me where every aeroplane in the world is at a given time. This is the real frustration. Why do I have a situation where the Dublin Bus app is saying one thing, the TFI app is saying something else and the screen at the bus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: How can they be feeding different information? Either the bus is there or it is not. It is either on Baggot Street, Grafton Street or Dawson Street or it is not. Is it different sets of guesswork or what is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: How can there be different sets of information? Either the bus is somewhere or it is not. How can the information being fed to a screen be different from the information being to a phone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: How can it be different?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Either the aeroplane is on the runway or it is in the air or it is not. How can there be different sets of information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: The screen is saying it is coming, and then it vanishes. Why is it saying it is coming if it is not coming?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: There are probably 3,000 or 4,000 stops and X number of screens, and you have thousands of users every day relying on this information, and it is not accurate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: The driver shortages are driver shortages. I still do not get how a system-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: -----spitting out information can be spitting out different versions of the same information. What is it all based on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: So, what happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Sorry, Chairman, I will try to conclude on this. The problem is that when I or a schoolchild or an elderly person looks at a screen, we think it means what it says. Logically, they think it means what it says but, in fact, it does not mean what it says. When are we going to have a system in place with the apps? I hear the Dublin Bus app is being phased out, which I am sorry about because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I am concluding. From my perspective, this is a particularly frustrating session because, there are so few members here, I thought we might get a bit longer. I appreciate why we cannot-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: -----but we need to come back to this, maybe next week or even the week after. This is clearly an enormous issue. I appreciate the work that has been done by Go-Ahead Ireland and Dublin Bus. We need the system to work and for people to have confidence in it. We need more people using and relying on it and being able to rely on it.

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive opening statement, in which he outlined the reasons for this important emergency legislation. It is important to realise, as he said, that the provisions of the Bill relate to two sites, Shannonbridge and Tarbert. These provisions will ensure we have enough electricity capacity not so much for this winter but for next winter. There was a...