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- Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister for his very detailed and comprehensive opening statement. I remind Members that, while all group spokespersons have eight minutes, this should be considered a maximum rather than a target. The Minister has covered a lot of the detail of the Bill but Members may, by all means, engage in debate on it.
- Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Senator for his remarks. It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that the Minister has been appointed President of the Eurogroup. It is great honour for him, and for Ireland, to hold the position. As no other Senators have indicated a wish to speak I invite the Minister to conclude the debate.
- Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: The official title for this session is active travel and public transport. I was a member Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which I think has been quite topical recently. In 2010, I was elected the cycling champion of the county council. That did not mean I was any good at cycling, it just meant I was supposed to promote cycling, which was far less fashionable then than it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is that to Sandyford?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: What does it say, if Mr. Spratt is allowed to tell us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: How do we get modal shift?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: And, equally, safe. That is an important word to include.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: We have had a lot of issues with safety on public transport in Dublin recently. That is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I will conclude now. My final point is that there are issues with antisocial behaviour on longer distance modes of travel such as trains but particularly on the Luas more recently and on buses. Whether it is a transport police or whatever else we need, people want to use public transport but if they do not feel safe on it, they will not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: You have an airport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses. I wish to make a few points. I remember being on holidays in Hungary some years ago and you could bring your bike into train carriages. There were seats at either end of the carriage, and you could hang your bike up on a rack in the middle, in the same way as a coat, but it was for bikes. I am not sure such a facility is on Irish trains at all. There seems to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: When do we hope the first BusConnects corridor will have been completed, with works done and operational, versus the final one? Is it a ten-year, three-year or 15-year plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: How many can be done at one time? If 16 corridors are to take two years each, we will be talking 32 years. I presume that is not the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: When might the first corridor be complete and when is it hoped they will all have been delivered by? I am not trying to tie down the Department to something I will post on social media in ten years' time. I am just trying to determine when, roughly speaking, people might be able to use the first corridor and when it is hoped to have the project completed.