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Seanad: Maternity Protection Bill 2024: Motion for Earlier Signature (24 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister for attending. It is nice when legislation has support from all sides. He worked hard to get here. I congratulate him and his officials in that regard. Equally, I congratulate and thank all the Members for their participation in a process that has brought this matter to a successful conclusion.

Seanad: Maternity Protection Bill 2024: Motion for Earlier Signature (24 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Maternity Protection Bill 2024: Motion for Earlier Signature (24 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: It has well passed.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Not this time.

Seanad: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I chaired the Second Stage debate on the Bill last Thursday, which we got through reasonably quickly. I had a fair idea that there was no opposition here on Thursday on Second Stage. This Bill has unanimity and zero opposition. This does not happen too often. I commend the Minister and his officials on the work they have done on this to ensure there was literally no opposition to the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I said exactly the same to her outside.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The Leas-Chathaoirleach will always have a place for her to stay, no doubt.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: And you are the result of it all.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and the Minister. I also thank Senator Craughwell for being so brief. I will try to be as brief; I am not sure if I will be that brief. We should have renamed this "Tributes to Heather Humphreys Day" - why not? Maybe we should do that tomorrow or the next day. I congratulate her, as I did in the anteroom on the way in. I said I did not know if it should...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The Senator is another two.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: In a good and positive way.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: No wonder the Minister is retiring.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I waited to listen to the Minister's response before I came in. It is a well-intentioned amendment and what we are all trying to do and what we all need to try to do is to look at why so many businesses are under so much pressure. Their margins are getting tighter and tighter and it is not just that the minimum wage goes up, everybody else's wages have to go up because the minimum wage has...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the National Cyber Security Bill 2024: Cyber Ireland (17 Oct 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Honan. We are doing pre-legislative scrutiny of the National Cyber Security Bill. As Deputy Farrell outlined, it is 183 pages of a PDF and that is just the heads of the Bill, so there is a lot in it. We have all admitted that none of us are cyberexperts. I think we will be going from 70 regulated entities to approximately 4,000 but all of those 4,000 have suppliers and...