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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: The ambition is to have it substantially completed in the next eight years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Finally, how proactive is the Department in regard to the green schools programme? I acknowledge it seeks interest from schools but does it ask each school about its travel practices? Does it ask schools whether their travel comprises, say, 80%, 90% or 20% by car? What level of resources does the Department have to help bring schools with it to reduce the number of cars on the road and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: If I may come in on that point, there is reference to 130 secondary schools. There are approximately 700 secondary schools in the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I think 130 schools are involved in the scheme. I am not sure how many of them were accepted in the 170.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: The point the Chairman and I are making is that there is significant untapped potential and we need to prioritise that, get people hooked and interested because if you get used to cycling at a young age, you will continue to do it. If you have never done it, it is more difficult to get back into it when one is used to driving rather than cycling all the time. I say that as a person who did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: The information is in the report. One of the briefing documents we were sent refers to 130 or 131 secondary schools and 787 primary schools. However, that figure of 130 or 131 is out of 700 secondary schools. This means that fewer than 20% of secondary schools applied and only 20% of those applications were successful. A very small number of schools are being tapped at secondary level....

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Next Tuesday at noon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Mr. Ó Céidigh is welcome. With the Chairman, former Senator and now Deputy O'Donnell, Senator Buttimer and Senator Craughwell, we were all in the Seanad together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: As such, I know Mr. Ó Céidigh a little better than some other members of the committee. For the many reasons he stressed in his opening statement, he is an excellent choice. It does not just have to do with his business background, but also his aviation business background; he is from and lives in the west; and he ran an airline out of Dublin while still living in the west.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: That is a point on which I am not sure anyone has touched. I was in EY a million years ago while training to be an accountant, so I know the company better than many people. To have won those awards and be brought back as a judge says a great deal about Mr. Ó Céidigh's talents and abilities that perhaps many of us do not totally appreciate. I am speaking as someone who had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I am happy to make a separate trip to Cork Airport. The chair of Dublin Airport will be here next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I do not know half enough about Shannon Airport. If I did and others did, then people might use it more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I hope Mr. Ó Céidigh is appointed chair of the Shannon Group. The group is primarily made up of the airport and everything around it but it is also has a big property portfolio and Shannon Free Zone, which used to be known as the Shannon Development Zone. The group is much bigger than the airport. I do not have enough knowledge about the airport, and I am sure other members of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Certainly Mr. Ó Céidigh has my very best wishes and support.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Shannon Airport has an enormous role to play. While it does not have the same catchment in terms of population, one could drive a good bit further and still get through Shannon Airport more quickly than if one had to drive to Dublin and catch a flight from Dublin Airport. Shannon Airport needs to remind people that the region has a smaller local population in terms of Limerick, Shannon and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Ó Céidigh for his attendance. We all forget how valuable pre-clearance is as an asset. I presume that even those private jets can use it if they are coming in at all hours. They cannot do that in Luton or in loads of other places. It is important to know that one has pre-clearance when one lands in America. A flight could be delayed and it happened to me one time;...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: One of the great things about being towards the end of the Order of Business is that you have to keep finding new topics since the ones you were going to speak on have been used up. I completely support both Senator Crowe's comments on special exemption orders and a point which I was going to make earlier, which was raised by Senator Ardagh, about the amount of anti-social activity and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Order for Second Stage (29 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Looking around the Chamber, I note that the Minister of State is a barrister, as are four of my colleagues. We are dealing with a justice matter, but this is technical legislation that we are bringing forward. We are trying to transpose legislation and recommendations from the EU and the UN into Irish law. Regarding research on this Bill, and the concept, I welcome the briefing note that...