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Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Before I conclude today's business, I want to mention that it is my first time back in the Chair since 27 March 2020. I thank every Member of this House because I would not be here without the Members of the Oireachtas deciding to allow me to come back, so I do appreciate that. It is great to be back and to see everybody back in the Chamber. I will now ask the Deputy Leader when it is...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: That is a better answer. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State for his opening remarks. It is a fairly sorry state of affairs when one considers the amount of money, time and effort that had to be invested. It would have been much better if the HSE could have spent the money and time doing other, more productive things than trying to firefight the crisis that arose. From the Minister of State's initial review of what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Are there measures in place to share the information in these reports? The Minister of State does not have to tell us everything that happened. The information is obviously sensitive. We do not want people who are carrying out these kinds of attacks to know how they are being stopped from happening. Will that information be shared with other Departments? My concern is that if this can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State for that. It is good to know. We should be publicising the fact that all of that information is available. A question arises in that context, however. If that information is there and it was there before the attack, did nobody in the HSE look at the website? Did nobody in the HSE take on board these published guidelines? The Minister of State says that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I am not trying to engage in any kind of blame game. I appreciate all of the work being done by the 100,000 people involved in the HSE. However, their lives became far more difficult after this attack than was the case before. We are probably all guilty of not changing passwords as often as we should or of making them more simple than they might otherwise be. I wonder if all of the people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State. He is uniquely placed from his previous career in that he probably knows more about the healthcare system and IT systems than anyone else in Parliament. It is good, therefore, that he is the person being tasked with this role. I wish the Minister of State and all of the people in the NCSC the best. Hopefully, when further information is published and made...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: It seems that Senator Maria Byrne and I will be following each other around for the rest of our lives after the by-election. We always tend to speak before or after each other. It is interesting being on this side of the Chamber. I was the final Fianna Fáil speaker in the previous Seanad, sitting on the opposite side, and that was on 27 March 2020 and the start of the pandemic. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses and Mr. Hendrick for his opening statement. I read it last night. I am not a technophobe but it was a jargon-filled statement, if he does not mind me saying so. I think I got my head around most of it. I was the chair of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly in 2014. I remember chairing a meeting of 53 councillors from Fingal across to Clare and down to Kerry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Hendrick. If he is saying that NBI has to target 96% of the landmass which represents 23% of the population, is it fair to say that the other 77% who are not being targeted live on 4% of the landmass?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: NBI is effectively having to develop on parts of the landmass that do have broadband in order to get to the places that do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: At this stage, we are at less than 5% delivered. NBI has a detailed website. Perhaps the plan as outlined by Mr. Hendrick could be put on that website so that people can see that X amount are ready now, by December that figure should be 60,000 and by next March it should be 90,000. It could include the 108,000 premises referred to and the 195,000 premises that are going into the system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I am not looking for a cost for each of the individual 544,000 premises. Clearly, it is a national network. Delivering post to a very remote location costs more than delivering to an apartment block, and it is the same with electricity and so on. I am looking for the average cost, that is, the total cost of the programme divided by the total number of premises. What is the cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: To clarify, of the 227 areas that NBI has broken the country down into, only 33 of them have commenced. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I can see there is a lot of work being done but, clearly, time is of the essence. I ask that the website is updated with as much information as possible with regard to the plan.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Amendment No. 4 is in the name of Senator Higgins. If Amendment No. 4 is agreed to, then amendments Nos. 5 and 6 cannot be moved. Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 4. Amendments Nos. 4 to 6, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed. I call Senator Higgins.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 7 and 9 are related. If amendment No. 7 is agreed, amendment No. 9 cannot be moved. Amendment No. 9 is a logical alternative to amendment No. 7 and they may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 8, 10 and 11 are related. Amendments Nos. 10 and 11 are logical alternatives to amendment No. 8 and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.