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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Consultation is key in this regard and that can take place in different forms. We had an interesting and good meeting in our social dialogue process with the representatives of the farming sector last month. Many different views were expressed. Much attention was focused on the issue of climate, because it is going to be critical. I refer to climate adaptation as well as to reducing...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I would very much welcome it if the Deputy could provide me with details in this regard and I will certainly pass them on to the relevant Minister. As he said, I am sure this is an issue right around the country. If a specific problem is emerging in Louth, however, I will be happy to pass the information on to the relevant Minister to ensure it is addressed and targeted.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Following up on what I said earlier about young people getting involved in farming, the same applies to some of our heritage skills. A generation of people, many of whom I know, have these skills and an incredible variety of abilities and knowledge concerning a range of methods of stone wall building. We risk losing those skills and abilities if we do not value and protect our heritage and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We all share that objective.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The main way we prevent it from happening is by working with the Land Development Agency, particularly on public lands or lands the State has an ability to influence. We go into the market. That is why I keep coming back to cost rental as a fundamental strategic change in what we are doing here, in that we go into the market and start providing affordable rent and affordable purchase in a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We have to change the market. That is how I think we can do it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I want to clarify this because it is important. We have been talking about this issue in the Dáil for four or five years, as I recall. Our party was the first to introduce a motion on cost rental, three or four years ago, on which we got cross-party support. There was a reference in that motion to the Vienna model because Vienna and Austria have shown a really good example of how this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: -----and we think it could work here.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We need a just transition and I do not believe that transition can be done on the basis that climate change and the switch away from fossil fuels gives companies permission not to work in a way that is within the spirit and law in terms of social partnership and looking after workers' rights in this country. I do not accept or agree with that. We have to rely on the institutions of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: That is what we are doing.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I will pass on the Deputy's suggestion to the Minister for Health. There has not, to date, been a prioritisation given to any category of workers other than front-line health workers, including staff in nursing homes, who obviously had to be prioritised because there was an immediate threat to the lives of their patients if they were not vaccinated. Other than that, the prioritisation has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy. I understand that communities in the area, particularly Gaeltacht communities, have been very concerned. I understand it is at a very early stage of the planning application process. It is critical the communities are listened to and involved and there is real engagement. Nothing is certain in the planning system. An Bord Pleanála is an independent agency. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The negotiations are not with any developer. That is not the key consideration. It is with regard to agreement on sound standards and other distance parameters and standards, and looking to best international comparison on that, that there has been difficulty in getting final agreement within Departments. In the first auction system we introduced last year, we saw the first seven community...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy knows as well, in turn, that our interests are with the local authorities and approved housing bodies in delivering social housing. The Deputy knows this is the interest of every party in the House. I cannot accept this type of definitive split that people on one side of the House are in favour of vulture funds, cuckoo developers or others, and the rest of us are all in favour of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: For clarity, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, said in the Dáil on 19 May that multiple purchases of property are undertaken by bodies specifically for the purpose of providing social and affordable housing and it is not intended to apply the higher stamp duty rate to those instances. I do not disagree with the Deputy on her underlying point. We need to change the approach....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy. It is significant. We are about to change how we approach climate in land use in a way that I believe will see farmers benefitting from our emissions reduction targets. The critical thing in the policy approach we are taking is that we want income to go up as emissions go down. Bringing down emissions involves not only reducing the source of the emissions, be it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I have to await the Report Stage tomorrow in the Seanad, but I do not expect other amendments on this complex issue. Even explaining the science of sinks, sources and different accounting mechanisms is an evolving and complex process in its own right. However, the amendments we have introduced and the further amendment tomorrow help. As I said during the Dáil debate, the Bill...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Cabinet subcommittees have been meeting regularly to assess just this project because of concern about the contractual difficulties there. We have been paying it all our attention and we have every intention to get it built and keep the costs down. However, if I were to give false promises in terms of what the exact final cost would be, I would be guilty of the same things Deputy Doherty is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We have to, first and foremost, get them through the planning system. In terms of the cost overruns on this and the other main public infrastructure projects we have, the greatest factor in terms of cost inflation is the long lead times it takes to deliver projects. We all need to focus on improving that, especially in the planning system.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Taoiseach yesterday, that what we will see in the housing for all strategy, which will be published shortly, is a change in how we do leasing arrangements and a recognition this is not the approach we want to take as we develop a new housing for all strategy. It will change. There are 2,450 units projected in this year's target and a direct build target of 9,500 units. A...