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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...Marie McKiernan, the registrar stated:What is striking from our engagements is that, with a small number of notable exceptions, we see little exploration as to how credit unions intend to leverage long term lending to drive future profitability ... Also, we have not received any specific proposal on changing long term lending limits at the sectorial level, or any proposed risk management...

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 I have more of an issue with the people who persistently do not go and whose NCT is a long time out of date, and they just kind of ignore it.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: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That is optimistic. In terms of judicial reviews, I know there is probably an element of asking how long is a piece of string? Generally speaking, how long do they take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: Every time we get on a plane, we rely on them for everything. It is a testament to the safety of Irish aviation. Thankfully, it is very good, very strong. Long may that last. I suppose my last question is, while AirNav Ireland has its new legislation as we passed it not that long ago in the Seanad, is there anything else AirNav Ireland needs from us as legislators or as a State? Are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...a car but most cyclists also have cars and when they cycle they are not driving a car and clogging up the roads for everybody else. Equally, they are hopefully improving their health somewhat, as long as they do not get hit by somebody. Senator Craughwell is not present but he did an exercise recently where he went out on a bike, having not been on one for a long time. I did not cycle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...and headline items in respect of which it had to be informed. I know that happens in other organisations. They are dealing with so much compliance, they do not get any time to deal with long-term strategy, and Professor Lane mentioned that. Is there a genuine issue in the five main banks with planning and looking at their long-term futures, and that of the country? Regardless of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...asking if I could start an hour and half ago. If I could, I would turn up and do it. I was not trying to load aircraft but there was a backup of people who could be called and were contactable, long before SMS messages and long before mobile phones or emails.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...minute we walk out, we are looked after very well. I thank all the staff. I wish all Senators and their families a very happy Christmas. I support the motion on secretarial assistants which I, along with almost every other Senator, signed. The insurance issue with which Senator Paddy Burke and others and I have been dealing at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...shall, in relation to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Government". This discussion will therefore end at 4.15 p.m. I ask Senators to bear in mind that if they spend a long time on the earlier recommendations, we will not get to discuss the later recommendations at all. If we spend a long time on recommendation No. 6, we will not get to recommendation No. 12,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Gerry Horkan: ...witnesses. They have given us food for thought and questions to raise with representatives of NBI whenever they appear before us. Clearly, the witnesses' technologies have a role to play in the long term, but in the short term in particular. In 2014, I sat in a room with 53 councillors from 16 local authorities. They were being promised broadband over the next couple of years by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Gerry Horkan: On will happen in the long term and the short term, it is fair to say that in the past a lot of performance bonuses, incentives and rewards were based on the amounts of money lent, rather than on the amounts the banks got back. Banks lent money all over the place to enable people to buy fields in counties Wicklow, Meath and Kildare in the hope they would be rezoned and that all kinds of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: To conclude, I thank Mr. Jacobs for being here for as long as he has. I thank him for his comprehensive opening presentation. There is a lot of positivity here. Politicians tend to be very happy with the positive and then focus on the bits we are not positive about. The fact that we are not talking about conveyor belts, baggage handling, suitcases lost in transit and screening times of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...insulated rather than others. I presume Mr. Fitzpatrick does not have a view or understanding of this aspect. That development plan went in and the runway was approved in 2006 or 2007. It was a long time in the making, and the land was retained a long time before that as well. It just surprises me that this issue only seemed to appear on the first day of operations. All the witnesses...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I agree with Senator Paddy Burke, who is a long-serving member of the House. I was a member of the local authority for 12 and a half years, which is a long time. I will wait for the Minister of State because he is having a discussion with his officials. I do not think Senator Paddy Burke is saying that local authority members should automatically be members of the board, but we should not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Gerry Horkan: The bank is like a long-term mini-NAMA in terms of realising the properties slowly over time but ideally keeping as many people in their properties as is possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Central Bank of Ireland (20 Dec 2016)

Gerry Horkan: Does Professor Lane expect that to be resolved relatively quickly or over a long period of time? What was the figure one or two years ago? Was it 70,000 or 35,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Central Bank of Ireland (20 Dec 2016)

Gerry Horkan: To be fair, Professor Lane's statement notes that the banks are lending without consideration of risk in terms of long-term lending and using league tables to incentivise staff to drive lending volume without consideration of quality. These are all practices we heard about before.

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister. There is a very tight timeframe. I have to ask Members to be as brief as they can. I do not want to curtail debate, but if the first few contributors go on too long, later contributors will not get to speak at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses for attending at such short notice. We will suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to leave. We then need to make a decision on the decision, which should not take too long.

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I have put the question, "That the Bill do now pass", and I am indulging everyone by allowing them make a brief comment, but we cannot have a long discussion about the Bill.