Results 701-720 of 10,460 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Deputy O'Rourke. Everyone has spoken, so I will come back in for a second round if that is okay. I believe all the others will do that as well. It is really just to touch on points that might not have been mentioned earlier. I had to go and vote in the Seanad, so if I speak about anything that was already covered, the witnesses might let me know. There was a major issue with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Does that involve penalty points as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Technically, there is nothing to stop people gaming the system in terms of booking an appointment and then deferring it, rebooking it and so on in order to have the bit of paper that says the test will be done. They probably have to pay the €55 if they do it online.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Equally, if they know the car is going to fail, they do not want to spend the money on making it safe. I have more of an issue with the people who persistently do not go and whose NCT is a long time out of date, and they just kind of ignore it. There seems to be quite a large volume of vehicles in the NCT database that have never been tested or have been tested a very long time ago. Maybe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is not the only issue but it is part of the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I do not think I have ever even been on a motorcycle let alone driven one. There is no NCT-type scenario. People can drive motorbikes. They buy a motorbike and tax it and that is it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: They need a driving licence for a motorbike.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I am not sure if anybody touched on e-scooters, which have been talked about frequently but particularly at the moment. The emphasis on the radio this morning seemed to be that e-scooters will be banned for under-16s. Is it correct to state that e-scooters are banned at the moment and that their use by anyone on public roads is illegal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: What has the Garda been doing? People are saying that the ban relating to under-16s is going to be unenforceable. I see people almost every day when I am coming into Leinster House who are using scooters, some very responsibly and others less responsibly. Technically, however, their use is illegal. Is that correct? In other words, they are not legal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Is that primarily drug dealing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Part of antisocial behaviour would be drug dealing. What else is antisocial behaviour?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: You certainly hear of that with quad bikes, but I was not sure if scooters were in the same vein.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Six or seven of those companies presented to the committee a couple of years ago. I will not start naming them as I will leave some of them out. They had geofencing and something like a breathalyser test before they engage. People can sign a waiver, but it is more than that. There is a sobriety test of some type. That would probably not catch drugs, but it would be for alcohol. However,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I was going to ask about the business case for cameras. The business case is not how much revenue it will make but, rather, that the road in question has had a lot of crashes or incidents and a camera should be placed on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is not a commercial business case. Coming from an accounting background, the phrase "business case" means a premises would be built in a particular place because it would make money. In this case, it is because it will save lives.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The business case could be that ideally a camera is put in place that does not catch anybody because everyone slows down. In the short term, it could end up generating a lot of revenue, which pays for another camera.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Completely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is the impact on families.