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- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Like many other speakers, I sympathise with the families of those who died and those who were injured in the awful situation in Israel yesterday. I wish to speak in respect of Senator Craughwell's contribution. I was going to speak on it anyway but the Senator has raised the EU and the reasoned opinion from the committee of which I am Vice Chairman. Other members of the committee include...
- Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Taoiseach. Senators do not often get a chance to ask questions of the Taoiseach, even though I am the Vice Chairman of the committee that is responsible for his own Department. Much of the work of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has dealt with the banks and their behaviour. I refer in particular to the tracker mortgage issue,...
- Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: At the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, we have been discussing the taxation of the digital economy proposals from the EU, as well as the common consolidated corporate tax base, CCCTB, proposals in the past. Will the Taoiseach give his thoughts on that? There are a couple of reasons for asking. We have a significant digital presence in Ireland and there...
- Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: All Senators are very well behaved.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I wish everybody a happy Europe Day, which falls on 9 May every year. Some 92% of the Irish population is still expressing support for the EU and EU membership. It is important that we acknowledge it. It has come a long way since the foundation in 1951 of the European Coal and Steel Community. I am sure some of my colleagues who are members of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I did not steal the Senator's notes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I did not have any.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Perhaps the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, could also attend.
- Seanad: Report on Credit Union Sector: Statements (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for his attendance and his opening statement. We will all be singing from the same hymn sheet where many of his comments are concerned. Fianna Fáil welcomes the report, having pushed for its publication, and everyone shares the view that credit unions are a vital part of communities across Ireland. There is a connection to a credit union...
- Seanad: Report on Credit Union Sector: Statements (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State. For the purposes of clarification, I was making the point that I was not in favour of light touch regulation.
- Seanad: Local Government Accountability Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: How much time is remaining?
- Seanad: Local Government Accountability Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I may not use all of it. I support this legislation, which has been introduced by Senator Ó Domhnaill, the Acting Chairman, and Senators Boyhan and Craughwell. I do not mean it in a bad way, but it is difficult to draft a Bill that is just two sides of one A4 page and has an explanatory memorandum that barely exceeds one page. I congratulate Senator Ó Domhnaill on being able to...
- Seanad: Local Government Accountability Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Many questions have been asked. We have discussed Vicky Phelan's case at length, and Mr. Breen has told us there are nine more cases in the system and he is expecting one more to arrive into the system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The State Claims Agency has an indemnity for three of these and in the case of six others it has sought indemnity but has not yet received it. What is the position with these nine cases? Where are they in the system at this stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: What is the timeline for this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Effectively the State Claims Agency is out of the loop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Does the State Claims Agency ever hear a settlement figure or anything at all afterwards? Is it just that the State Claims Agency has an indemnity and the State stands back and says it is nothing to with it any more and, in this case, the buck is passed to the laboratory, its insurance company and solicitors? Does the State Claims Agency every hear back as to what happens?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: What is the indemnity actually for? Is it that the laboratory's insurance company states it will take all of the hit and will absolve-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: -----others of any claim?