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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: We will have to wait until a new Garda Commissioner is in place. It is not the Minister of State's brief but does he have any idea when that might be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Should the insurance companies or the Garda Síochána on behalf of insurance companies pursue the matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Is this a matter for the Garda insurance fraud unit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: That gives us some hope that people are, or will become, aware that making such claims will result in an automatic examination of the issue by the relevant members of the Garda and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...book of quantum is just the historical, statistical analysis of what has happened? If so, I do not know how it can be redrafted. Can he tease out his point on that? He made a point about the Garda insurance fraud unit, saying the Minister tells us there is not enough support in the House for this. Did he give any evidence for this, or any suggestion as to why? I commend all the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...for his own sake, that of his party and indeed, of the country, because it is to everyone's benefit that he does well. A number of Senators have already raised the matter of the reopening of Stepaside Garda station. It should be noted that the Dublin Rathdown constituency, where I live, only has a single operational Garda station. It is a three-seat constituency with 65,000 houses but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Even though this is mainly a Garda measure, it is still operated via the Road Traffic Act and so therefore it is the responsibility of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport rather than the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...State's remit but ultimately, the fewer severe crashes there are the fewer payouts there will be. There will always be accidents but we hope that there will be fewer and fewer. The numbers in the Garda traffic corps have not been increased or been maintained in the way they had been previously. One can drive at the speed limit on any motorway in the country and other cars will still be...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...in today's technological environment. The presence of so many high-tech and Internet based companies in Ireland makes this even more relevant. However, it is also critical that we resource the Garda to enforce the laws on cybercrime. It is a matter of concern that the number of gardaí working in the area of cybercrime fell in 2016. Late last year figures provided for Fianna...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: When is some of that stuff going to happen? There was an ANPR system but it did not work. When will an ANPR system that does work become operational, whereby a Garda car can be on a motorway or a city centre street and can detect plates, as it should be able to do all the time, whether it is on the garda’s jacket or the dashboard of the car? When will that come into operation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I did touch on road safety. Garda traffic numbers are obviously not in the Minister of State's Department, but the working group is obviously cross-departmental. The Garda traffic corps numbers are down. That is acknowledged. When are we going to see more enforcement? We had the Minister, Deputy Ross, in the Seanad yesterday alluding to road safety. The statistics for road safety are...

Seanad: Transport and Tourism: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...points. The Minister referred to road safety. What he is doing in this field is commendable but, and this is as much a matter for the Minister for Justice and Equality as it is for him, enforcement and the Garda traffic corps are noticeably absent on the roads. That is the only way of putting it. Not enough people are worried about being caught. People are taking chances. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...function was held. Representatives of the al-Maktoum family, which funded the centre originally, visited from the United Arab Emirates. Archbishop Martin was present, as were an Assistant Garda Commissioner and other significant dignitaries. It was a wonderful celebration of 20 years of that institution in Irish public life. It has made a great contribution to Irish life and the House...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...to administer the scheme or for any replacement people to do so either. Those involved have not been told to co-operate with other people. Even if others were brought in, they would need Garda vetting. That Garda vetting takes several weeks. Even if we could find such people and bring them in, they would need to familiarise themselves with the school. If that is not possible - and it...

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: ...in the middle of the summer. Subsequently €3 million was allocated for the Carysfort and Maretimo stream scheme. In 2011, on the night of the presidential debate, a poor unfortunate garda died in the river. Dundrum Town Centre, the single biggest ratepayer in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area, was flooded, while there was no Luas service for two days owing to...

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

Gerry Horkan: ...input a car registration, they could find out whether a car is taxed, insured and has a valid NCT. It is important that type of information is publicly available and not only available to An Garda Síochána.

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

Gerry Horkan: ...databases in the country that exist or that co-ordinate data run through Insurance Ireland? I refer to the information on penalty points. Please forgive me but I would have thought there was some Garda database of penalty points where the penalty points are recorded by the Garda and presumably by the GoSafe cameras and it goes into a State database to which the witnesses get access or...

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

Gerry Horkan: What are the barriers to delivering that because we had Conor Faughnan in last week telling us that the ANPR recognition system that was installed in all the Garda vehicles is virtually useless because one in four hits they were getting for a car that was neither taxed nor insured was producing data that was not correct. For example, the Garda got a flag of a vehicle that was not insured and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State (7 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...off at the Red Cow, and if the car gets from A to B too fast, a penalty is imposed for breaking the law. I went pretty much all over the country during the Seanad campaign and I did not see many Garda vehicles. We know the number of gardaí in the traffic corps is down. People are taking chances and ultimately we end up with claims and injuries because of people not behaving as...