Results 3,141-3,160 of 10,460 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The order of the House is that Members have five minutes each on Second Stage.
- Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Now.
- Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Now.
- Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Motion for Earlier Signature (27 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I move: That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.”
- Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive opening statement in regard to the European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022, which, to be fair, is very much a technical Bill. As was referred to recently by Deputy Catherine Murphy in the Dáil, it is not something that most of us are ever going to have to experience or deal with. Nonetheless, some examples of where it has been...
- Seanad: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, to the House for the first time since he assumed his role.
- Seanad: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 2 to 5, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Seanad: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I would sit down now if I were you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I attended from my office and read their statements last night. I want to clarify one thing. Does the CTTC encompass all companies other than, for example, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. Is that fair to say? Are Aircoach and Go-Ahead included or are they part of the council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Are either Go-Ahead or Aircoach, for example, part of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: What percentage of the coaches most of us see on the roads of Ireland do the CTTC represent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I am just trying to get a handle on what is and what is not in. We have had many issues with Go-Ahead in terms of driver shortages, services not appearing and so on. I will address those issues to representatives of Go-Ahead on a different day as I do not want to be giving the CTTC the flak for an organisation it does not represent. There were four main points in the presentation and I was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: One third. Much of what we have discussed today has been about the licensing problem and it is just that. It is something we can take on and deliver the message to the NTA, whose representatives are regularly before this committee. A big chunk of the CTTC business involves driving tourists around the west of Ireland, the Ring of Kerry and all the other things such as school tours, summer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Is that a combination of the RSA, the NTA, the National Driver Licence Service, NDLS-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Has the CTTC had discussions with them about this process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: What are they saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Having listened to the opening statement and the witnesses' interactions with other members, it is clear that the whole system is out of date and creaking and that technology and online systems could, as they did with motor tax approximately 20 years ago when we were all queuing up in social welfare offices or tax offices for hours to get bits of papers stamped and processed, allow people to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The recognition may be easier but someone is still supposed to do it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: A coach operator is required to ensure that every one of its drivers has an Irish-issued licence and is not supposed - I presume they do not - to employ people who do not have the required-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Even just exchanging a licence causes a delay. People from those countries whose licences we do not recognise need to apply for a test and do the test. Is it only then that they can apply for their work permits or can that be done in tandem? I am trying to flesh out all of the-----