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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: From an urban perspective, is there a risk that the service NBI is providing will be better than the services available in urban areas not covered by the NBP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: There are plenty of services in urban areas providing what will now be provided in rural areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: They are not there yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Are they there for NBI consumers? Of the 5,000 people who have been connected, have some received better services than in urban areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: The minimum in urban areas is what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: The minimum NBI is offering is 500 Mbps. People in urban areas are only using 30 Mbps at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Okay. I thank NBI for all its efforts and wish it the best with the roll-out.

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach very much. The Minister of State is very welcome. This is a little bit like Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown on tour here with him, Senator Ward and myself. We all soldiered together on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. It is not unique but at the moment every single Member in the House, including the Minister of State, has been a former local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I will do my best. I was due on at 2.57 p.m. but it is now 3.53 p.m. I wish the Minister had said that an hour ago or after I finished speaking. Not to worry. I will do my best. There is a lot in NIFTI but, although it is a new name, there were programmes and structures before. I again thank the officials for the presentation yesterday. There was previously the strategic investment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: It is half and half.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I was the first person to get it in within the time.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Like every Senator - I have been listening to debates from my office before I came into the Chamber - I want to welcome the restrictions being removed as much as they were. It probably caught everybody a little by surprise, but it was very positive.There was a great mood around all of our towns, villages and cities in the past couple of days. We will remember those we have lost and those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all our contributors. I read all their opening statements in advance and have been listening to all of them and to committee members. I am afraid I do not have many new points to bring to the table. I was previously chairman of a transportation strategic policy committee on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and, therefore, I am familiar with issues such as mirrors,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: This is at a time when scooters are not even legalised yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Okay. I appreciate that nobody here, either committee members or any of the witnesses, are necessarily technological experts in how e-scooters work or how they can be geofenced and so on. I think Mr. Fulham referred to geofencing more than anybody else. An operator implementing it can put in rules and so on, but do we know if there is a way of geofencing people who buy a scooter in a shop?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: There is scope for us to ensure that in the legislation. It is in the interests of these companies hiring scooters out per minute, hour or as some kind of subscription service to be bound by all the rules and they would have to make sure of that because otherwise their licence would be taken off them. The bigger challenge for all of us is how we ensure that people who are using scooters...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That again applies to the shared system as opposed to private ownership. If somebody buys a scooter and decides to abandon it in the middle of Grafton Street, those tactics will not cover that. On the speed limit, 12 km/h seems quite low. Maybe it is an appropriate speed. Did that figure come from anywhere? Is there any empirical reason that NCBI chose 12 km/h, rather than 15 km/h, 9...