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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: The concern I would have is that if we have over time to decrease our reliance on all this corporation tax, we are then asking the consumers of the Irish State to find €8 billion of corporate, excise and carbon taxes and other consumption taxes. At the moment, we are getting these because we are adding the value and having 8,000 or 10,000 people working in Apple, over 2,000 in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: From our perspective, if it is €2.2 billion across the whole of the EU and we are currently collecting about €8 billion in Ireland, it would still be a drop in the ocean in terms of what is available. Has Dr. Djankov done any estimate as to how much global taxation is potentially out there that is not collected? If it was taxed even at a medium-sized rate of 15% or so globally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: A sum of €2.2 billion is not small, but €2.2 trillion is a lot more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Dr. Djankov. This is a very interesting report. When will the part of the report that is under embargo be released and when will it be published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Dr. Djankov for his work on this report, which is very interesting. We look forward to it. We need to tackle Ministers and the Departments on how they are educating young people to prepare them for the future.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Leader for outlining the business of the day. I ask him for an urgent debate on the Scally report and to bring it forward as soon as possible, hopefully next week. While I could propose an amendment to the Order of Business, I am unsure whether that is relevant to next week, as we are talking about the Order of Business today. I wish to propose that Members debate the report...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I can propose an amendment to the Order of Business if that brings about a review more quickly. It may not be possible today. Ideally, I would propose an amendment to the Order of Business today, but if it was not possible to do so, that it be done as soon as possible.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I am trying to indicate to the Leader that I am always flexible and willing to help in delivery but I seek a debate on the matter as soon as possible. If the Leader is not forthcoming, I expect he probably will be, we may have to propose an amendment to the Order of Business. It is proposed for now and I will await the Leader's response. Brexit is getting closer and closer. It is now two...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: That is agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: And the National Transport Authority, NTA.

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I indulged the Senator somewhat because this debate is supposed to be on transport and not on tourism. I am sure the Minister would be delighted to come back to the House to discuss tourism, sport and various other aspects of his brief but today we are discussing transport. I remind Members that we are discussing Project Ireland 2040 - Linking People and Places and transport matters. The...

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister to the House, with which he is very familiar, having spent a long time in the Seanad before he was elected to the Dáil. I welcome him back. I will make a number of points particularly on the transport matter. I came in this morning by bicycle. I was very glad I was cycling because there was a tailback through the heart of the Minister's constituency where I...

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I do not want to interrupt the Minister, but he has responded to almost six Senators. There are another five left to respond to and we have only five minutes left, so I am-----

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I should declare that I was the last speaker so I would not mind a response before someone else says it. We have spent half an hour on the first six, so I ask that we deal with the other five in five minutes.

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: We must finish at 3 o'clock.

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response to the issues raised. I have no doubt he will be in the House again soon on other transport, tourism and sport issues.

Seanad: Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage - An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim (20 Sep 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State, not just for his very comprehensive outline of what is being proposed but for the brevity with which he delivered it. Fianna Fáil believes the current provisions on blasphemy in the Constitution are outdated and should be removed. Ireland is one of only seven countries in Europe where blasphemy is still an offence. The Bill proposes the removal of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Well said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Mr. Cahillane referred to somewhere between €5 million and €6 million to €20 million. Does he have no oversight or knowledge, other than hearsay or what he might have seen on "Prime Time" or what might have been mentioned here regarding various contractors, that is, about €250,000 and €16,000 or €60,000? Does he not know?