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- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I now call on the Minister to speak to amendments Nos. 8 to 12, inclusive.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take next Stage?
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I congratulate the Minister and thank all Members for being so co-operative. Does the Minister want to make a final comment?
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: This is a Seanad Bill and it is a good day to have it passed. Well done to the Minister and to all Senators involved.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 are related. Amendment No. 7 is a logical alternative to No. 6, and they may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Many of the questions I intended to pose have already been asked. I remember being the chair of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly in 2014, which covered Clare to Fingal. At that time, Alex White was the Minister. We once had a room of 53 councillors where it was so obvious and palpable that half of the councillors had nothing to say about broadband and the other half were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is the State going to spend a fortune on technology that will be out of date by the time people get it? Will the technology being offered by the witnesses improve so rapidly it will be as good as what we say is the gold standard or, as the Chair said, the PCR test in terms of fibre. Will fibre be needed in five years' time? We used to think digital subscriber lines or copper were amazingly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I have a question to which Ms Cullen O'Reilly or others might respond. Do we need to give everyone in every remote place fibre if alternative technologies in two or three years' time will be faster and better than what it provides now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: On fibre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Campbell wish to contribute?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Or even antigen tests. The Chairman might like to keep talking about them, but that is for another meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: It is exactly the same, in that the PCR test is delivered more rapidly and its result delivered sooner than an antigen test's. Of course, it only takes 24 hours in the case of a PCR test, not seven years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I think it has given us-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I was going to finish up by thanking the witnesses. They have given us food for thought and questions to raise with representatives of NBI whenever they appear before us. Clearly, the witnesses' technologies have a role to play in the long term, but in the short term in particular. In 2014, I sat in a room with 53 councillors from 16 local authorities. They were being promised broadband...
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is it a point of order? I will allow the Senator to speak before I conclude whether it is or is not a point of order.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: We are dealing with amendments Nos. 57 to 60, inclusive, and that is all we are dealing with now.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Would anybody else like to speak to amendments Nos. 57 to 60 before I bring the Minister of State back in?
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I remind Senators that we are discussing amendments Nos. 57 to 60, inclusive. There are 142 amendments in total, we will be having discussions on various sections and the debate is due to conclude at 7.30 p.m. We should move as speedily as we can in order that we can debate as many amendments as possible.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 61, 64, 85, 90 and 108 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.