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Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of information, last week's business involved statements on the transition statement relating to climate change late at night on Thursday evening. Fine; the only problem is that we did not get the statement until Friday afternoon. It shows a disrespect for the issue and for this House and should be noted.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (12 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 74. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the process by which the Government decided to join PESCO. [51717/17]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There is nothing happening. There is not a single rail-based public transport project ready to go to tender.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We kept the metro project in the four-year plan.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The then Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, now Taoiseach, got rid of it. It was to be funded by the European Investment Bank and ready to go. We would have had it for half the price we will have to pay in four or five years' time. It was ideology in Fine Gael's case because it does not believe in public transport.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It prefers the car-based, individualised system. That is what I see.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I understand what my rural colleagues are saying when they talk about the difficulty posed by rural isolation. There is no doubting that it is an issue. In introducing these measures we have to listen to what they are saying and recognise that we have a real problem, particularly in the case of older people and those who do not have huge social outlets. We have to consider how we will...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I regret that I stand with a different view to my neighbours in the rural alliance. I hope they will not mind if I take 20 minutes to explain exactly why it is that I am supporting the Minister on this occasion.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I would prefer if that was struck off the record.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad that the Minister is here to hear my support. Unfortunately, he had to run out the door at the last minute when I was speaking on the climate Bill last night, so it is great to have a chance to impart some of my views to him in his full presence. Much as I have listened to the arguments made by Deputy Healy-Rae and others, I support the Minister on this initiative. Sometimes...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is cheaper. The cost of onshore wind, the cost of solar and even the cost of offshore wind has come right down.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The cars are becoming cheaper too. The fuel costs are one fifth of an oil-fired car, and the maintenance costs are a fraction too because there are fewer moving parts. That is the reality of what has happened. We need to wake up to it. We need to invest in public transport and do what the Citizens' Assembly said. The Citizens' Assembly's work was superb in terms of saying the...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: -----and the Minister of State, Deputy Doyle. The Minister of State knows Europe is changing on this. He knows the future payments in CAP will go for those who protect biodiversity, who store carbon and who help us protect water supplies. Let us go for it. Let us not see this as a rural-urban divide because it is not so. The only way this will work for us as a country, if we are to...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Climate change is a difficult issue in a range of ways. It is difficult because of the scale of the challenge and also because the scale of the change is so immense that we speak of the issue in terms of a geological timeframe, although we are speeding it up. People joked and laughed at the then President Obama when he said he wanted to stop the seas rising but that is what we have to do...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Costa Rica.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Why are we debating it on a Thursday?

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a further point of order, we have not heard from the Minister, Deputy Naughten, about how we can debate a transition statement when we do not have it. We do not have the written statement from the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Doyle, either. This is making a mockery of the climate Act. It is not a proper reflection on the Dáil that...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of order, as I understand it, we are here to discuss the transition statement given that, as is set out in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, there is a requirement for the Government to present a report each year. We are debating it tonight but I was told today, when I asked the Department where that statement was, that we would have it tomorrow. It should...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party is opposed to Ireland's entry into PESCO. It runs contrary to Ireland's tradition as a neutral non-aligned country and it will not serve our people or armed forces well in the great work that the latter have done representing us in peace missions overseas. We regret that the process by which approval is being sought - at incredibly short notice and without proper debate or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given direction to Dublin City Council as to which arrangements could be considered optimal in the provision of affordable housing after the finalisation of the commercial agreement for the Poolbeg SDZ. [52263/17]