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- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: The amendments are specific to owner-managers of pubs and so on. The information can be on the menus or it might not be. If we are going to have information put on menus, we can have a lead-in time so that places do not need to reprint menus that they had printed the previous week because of the legislation. Many of us tip, whether it is lounge staff or someone working in a restaurant....
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I am not sure the Senator would agree with it on anything else.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Garda Stations (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, back to the House.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Garda Stations (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I believe we will see him later.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Passport Applications (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy McEntee.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Passport Applications (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I might give the Senator some latitude.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator does not have an opportunity to respond.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Only sometimes.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I saw quite a number of photographs of Fianna Fáil local authority members at the rally online. I was not tracking everybody's Twitter account but I saw the Dublin Central candidate, Ms Mary Fitzpatrick, Councillor Paul McAuliffe from Dublin North West, and Councillor Frank O'Flynn from Cork. We do not necessarily assemble in a militaristic fashion-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: -----like some other parties do.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Enough said. Senator Richmond mentioned passports, which I was going to raise myself. Last Wednesday, I helped somebody apply online for a passport renewal. The office was reluctant to accept the photograph but we managed to produce one of sufficient quality. They said it would take ten working days, which would mean Wednesday of next week, but it arrived in the post this morning, after...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I would like the Leader to schedule a debate regarding what the Minister for Education and Skills and his Department plan to do to relieve this situation. It is becoming incredibly difficult to find teachers to fill vacant posts when they arise.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: It was not a point of order.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I think this is genuinely a point of order because we are discussing the Order of Business. Senator Norris seems to be concerned that tomorrow he will not get an opportunity to debate the motion because it will be shot down. However, my understanding from what the Leader has said - he might clarify - is that he is offering, without any vote-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: -----to put on the schedule tomorrow an hour's debate, without the Minister, on the matter, and tomorrow morning he will read out the Order of Business, including an hour of debate on the case of Shane O'Farrell-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: -----and he will not try to avoid doing that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: He will not - not tomorrow.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: And the Leader will not oppose it.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: It should only take five minutes.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Is Senator McDowell pressing the amendment?