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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Everyone has been following with interest the £1.5 billion programme in Manchester that Mr. Deegan and Chris Boardman are rolling out. What is the modal split of cycling at the moment? Has it increased in recent years? How much have they spent? Is that going to be over a ten-year period? What is being spent this year and on what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What is the modal share of cycling? What are the recent statistics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Dublin will race Manchester over the next ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We shall win.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for Mr. Küster. Why did Britain get the green light from the European Cyclists' Federation on its national energy and climate actions plan? What is the UK doing that Ireland could and should do in its national energy and climate action plan? I understand that cycling represents a 36% modal share of all trips at the moment in the Netherlands. What is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have one question for all three witnesses. They have been in Dublin for the Velo-city conference for the past few days. I presume they had an opportunity to cycle around the city. We are missing the parade being held now in Clontarf, which is a pity, but what is their impression of cycling around Dublin? The Danish mayor rightly called us out yesterday morning. The poor fellow cycled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I want to address a misconception. Dublin is drier than Amsterdam, a lot warmer than Copenhagen and not as sweltering as Rome. It is a bloody great place in which to cycle, and we will be like the Danes and the Dutch in 20 or 30 years. If the Government spends 10% per annum over the next ten to 20 years, it will transform life in this city and this country. That is where we are going to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise that I must leave soon to raise a Topical Issue matter in the House. To tease out further what Mr. O'Leary stated, even after the 340,000 houses were removed from the intervention area, the ESB was still considering the possibility of connecting houses from the end point of those red areas, on the outskirts of Mitchelstown, where it would be just a regulator. If the ESB had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The national broadband plan has not yet concluded and is at a pre-tender process. From the committee's hearings, it is clear the developer, Granahan McCourt, still has options for what it will use on the final few miles to a house. It has the option of using Eir poles but the Department and others have indicated that it would also be possible, in the final part of tendering process, to use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In the Mitchelstown map, it seems that the remaining houses are on roads but, in fact, they are on the boreen network. They are very much one-off housing. If there is a ribbon development on a road, one can understand that Eir linking fibre along the telegraph poles to a series of houses on a road would be much more attractive than following a winding country road to a boreen. The ESB...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Setting up SIRO was a brave and correct investment by the ESB and Vodafone. Their analysis of the digital plans of Europe and the interconnection between digital and the electricity networks will only enhance matters. It seems to have been a brave and successful investment, given that SIRO has managed to pass 250,000 houses and has 40,000 customers. What will come next for SIRO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform raised concerns here. They were similar to the concerns raised in the memorandum to the Government. A very unusual, separate memorandum was sent to Ministers. At the end, it effectively stated the process should be stopped and that the Government should start with a State entity - it was not specified which exactly -...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I mentioned in my contribution the stabilisers. The summer economic statement sets out the potential disimprovement to the general Government balance of €6 billion. Is that after stabilisers have been applied or does the Minister have a figure for what the benefit would be with stabilisers correcting such movements? How much does it give us?

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister talked about supporting the economy in the event of a crash-out, no-deal Brexit and cited temporary targeted funding for the sectors most affected. The Minister must, at this stage, have knowledge of what those sectors might be. How would that funding apply and what mechanisms would be used in such circumstances?

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I want go back to my earlier contribution and the better ways of directly supporting communities that would be badly hit, such as the farming community, in the likely event of a Brexit downturn. Does the Minister think that, rather than giving cash straight to companies, the Government should look at schemes that directly support farmers? In doing so, that would steer us in the right...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On a final point, part of the process is to protect the sectors that might be damaged by Brexit. However, it is also about looking for stimulus that can be turned on very quickly, given the nature of this potential downturn. The examples I mentioned of immediate capital projects, such as targeted local authority or council spending on footpaths and retrofits, might on their own be tiny, but...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are on a remarkable economic knife edge. I cannot remember a precedent where the path between overheating the economy or, unfortunately, what looks more likely, a very sharp downturn on the back of what the UK Government does or does not do has presented such a remarkable black and white scenario. If we are expecting the latter, we must prepare for it. If we must adjust in September, so...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, further to the enactment of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, he has instructed schools to make additional provision for children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26584/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 613. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the importation of fracked gas from the United States of America; and if measures will be taken to have liquified natural gas, LNG, from fracked sources removed from the EU projects of common interest list in view of climate change commitments and in view of the commitment to ban fracking. [26918/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 673. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by diverting freight to rail. [26658/19]