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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: If one looks at the table, the figure goes from €2 million to €9 million to €16 million. Then there is a figure of less than €200,000. It does not look like more is being spent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: I just wanted to ask that question out of interest. Obviously, we are hearing a lot more about one in 100 year events that now seem to be happening three or four times in a period of ten years. Are there revised figures as clearly they are no longer one in 100 year events? They are happening with greater frequency. I remember a very serious event in my area in 2007 in Leopardstown in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State has responsibility for flood protection or alleviation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: Would it not be a good idea to respond to the flooding that is happening by rolling out a national programme of asking or encouraging local authorities to undertake maintenance on a planned basis, as opposed to on a reactive basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: It should not be done as a reaction. Perhaps the Minister's office needs to take a lead role by asking all 31 local authorities whether they have plans in place. Some of them are probably doing it already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: Maybe they are not all doing it and maybe they should be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: Will we have an idea on figures at that stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: We need to get those numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: I asked about the critical emergency plan for south Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: I have a number of points. My first concerns the phenomenon of one in a hundred year events now happening every three or four years, the second is environmental concerns about clearing and third is the Government performance in respect of global climate change

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: On the question of clearing the rivers, there is an environmental view that rivers should not be cleared. Does the Minister have a view on that?

Seanad: Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: On that same point, I appreciate that circumstances change and that a Minister's speech might not be ready until very soon before he or she comes into the Chamber, but, ideally, I would like to see it. If the script was ready yesterday, I would love to have seen it then to assimilate and process it. It would have allowed us to amend our speeches accordingly and not be repetitive regarding...

Seanad: Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: I apologise to the House as I seem to have half lost my voice. It is half back but not properly back. That may reduce the length of my contribution.

Seanad: Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: If I had an appearance to cancel, I would cancel it. Fianna Fáil supports the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016, which is very technical legislation to put in place a bridge-financing mechanism in the form of national credit lines that would be available as a last resort for the Single Resolution Fund in the event of a large bank resolution before the full size...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations and the papers they submitted in advance of the meeting. Some of my questions are for both organisations, Ms Dowling and the brokers, and some are more specific to one or the other. It is clear that Ms Dowling has a vast amount of experience in this area over many years, and I thank her for her contribution to the sector, including setting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: That is one of my points. We have been discussing this all week and I do not think we mentioned speeding or road conditions at all. That might be fair enough because that is not the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: We were told by the representatives of the law society yesterday afternoon that it was not valid for us to compare costs across Europe because most of Europe, other than the UK, does not have a legal system like ours. In other words, it just does not happen. Whiplash does not exist, so to speak, because there is not an at-fault culture or concept. All health costs are socialised and so on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: For example, they do not have whiplash and we do. Why are their premiums relatively comparable if they do not have all these costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: Unless the policy allows open driving on all vehicles.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: I am driving more than 20 years and I have seen my insurance increase by the same percentage as most other people, from less than €300 not that long ago to more than €300 and then by a further additional amount. I had an increase of exactly 33.3% with a premium increase from €390 to €520 this year and the car is getting older, I am getting older and no claims have...