Results 20,321-20,340 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: If I can finish the point-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: I have to be able to speak.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: One of the things we need is an all-Ireland approach. One of the problems we have with coal is it is coming across the Border. There are no regulations of the type we are looking at here in the North. The Sinn Féin manifesto for the Assembly elections in the next few weeks says nothing about air quality. It is as if is not an issue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Sinn Féin is the party that talked in the last election about change.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Why is it any time we talk about environmental change Sinn Féin says no?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Why is the change to treat these public health issues is the critical problem?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: My plan is to work on an all-Ireland basis and to stop having this North-South disconnect-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: -----so the pollution from smoky fuels coming across the Border stops being something that kills people on both sides of the Border.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy. I agree with her comments on the need for a co-ordinated response to how we welcome, look after, care for and get back on their feet the people displaced by the war in Ukraine. I also agree with her on the form of politics that is going to work best to deliver that and very much welcome her willingness to work with the Ministers, Deputies O'Gorman and Darragh O'Brien, in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: There has been and is, and the fact is that we have been able to manage 25,000 is unprecedented. There has never been a case of such numbers coming so quickly and we will manage the further numbers to come. It is not only Government. It is coming from the bottom up. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Anne Rabbitte, has informed me that in Waterford there are 20...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: -----and student accommodation. There is a plethora of different facilities being provided. It is difficult but my sense is it is working. We have no choice. It has to work. We have to provide an open door.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: No Deputy in this House needs to explain, burnish or think one is better than the other in terms of green credentials. Like in our country, there is broad consensus and understanding that the science is real on the likes of climate change and we must act. I read in detail, as well as attending, some of the debates yesterday, and while there was heated debate and discussion on some of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae's brother yesterday, in his contribution, as I recall reading it, recognised that electric vehicles are the better cars and that we need to make this switch.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae can read "the blacks".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: To make the point, this does not belong to any one party, Independent or otherwise.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: It will not work if we are pointing the finger at one person versus the other.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Deputy Shanahan will recall I met him when we visited WIT a few months ago and I visited the local authority. My sense of Waterford City and County Council is it is absolutely up for it. They are committed. They were all talking about how we put in the resources to make this happen. There was an the event in Rosslare last week on the development of the port for offshore renewables. I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: ----- to develop as a sustainable centre. It is already happening. I note the amount of jobs that have been delivered in Waterford in the past year and they are the type of jobs, the type of people and the type of companies that want to be part of this green transition. I fundamentally disagree with the analysis that we are not looking to the south-east as part of this transition. My...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Some of colleagues words are ringing in my ears to point out the truth, as I understand it, that the emergency department in Waterford Hospital is the top-rated in the country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Eamon Ryan: But, if I am a patient, what I want is to be in the very best centre.