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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will press the amendment and return to it on Report Stage. I will liaise with the Minister's officials with regard to his suggestions. I will press this and my other amendments. I have tabled a priority question to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and must go to the Chamber to ask it. I hope to return later.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is that because the GSI presents the original information?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would still argue that the EPA is the agency with responsibility for measuring environmental risk or scientific assessment of interaction between scientific information and the health effect on others.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 9, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:“(c) in paragraph (h) by the insertion of “and the Oireachtas” after “as appropriate”. Unfortunately I have to attend in the Chamber. I will return to my amendments on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in the roll-out of automatic number plate recognition cameras in Dublin city (details supplied); the timeline for the further roll-out of same; the proposed locations for the cameras; and the number of different types of vehicles found breaking traffic signals in 2017. [18393/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Maritime Spatial Planning (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe and process for the introduction of new marine protected areas. [18438/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the streamlined approval process for the approval of local authority housing by his Department; the number of occasions or stages of approval required by his Department's process; and the main stages and length of time it takes from site selection to tenant handover. [18447/18]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was happy to yield to Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and listen to him. His question about what kind of place young people will want to live in is valid. It is the key question for all those in terms of what we are doing in the Dáil. It is as much an issue for urban Deputies as it is for rural Deputies. Politics is central to answering that question and getting it right, both in rural...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We have a fundamental difference of opinion on the ecology we want to protect and develop in our uplands and among our hedgerows. The Minister said she is introducing the legislation as an ecological measure but how we can improve ecology by extending the burning and hedge cutting seasons is beyond me. I cite Michael Viney as my first character witness as someone who has a deep knowledge,...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister broadened it and if she does not mind, I will respond to some of the comments made.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is it appropriate that the Vice Chairman allowed the Minister to introduce a wide range of topics and that when someone from the Opposition side has the temerity to question her on her sweeping statements, I am told that I have to restrict what I say? That is ridiculous.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is the Minister in the Chair?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I do not disagree with what the Deputy is saying, but the Minister in her response broadened it right out in such a way that I felt compelled to try to respond to the points she had made.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister tried to do so.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister just did.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As am I.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will come back in at a later stage.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 19:In page 12, to delete lines 2 to 7. I will return to the argument I was making. My view is this. If there is a contested scientific issue about how best to develop our ecology in these degrading and in-crisis habitats, I argue that the approach should be scientific and that scientific research is needed, rather than legislation. I have never seen circumstances...