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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is capping price using our purchasing power at an international level.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy just does not like the answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The first message we have to give to people is that, yes, we have to be smart and clever, but we also have to stay warm and comfortable through the winter and protect everyone's health. No one should be getting any message that involves restricting that comfort and basic health. The CRU appeared before the Oireachtas committee yesterday to addressing questions in respect of this and other...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It takes time to work out what is the best regulatory system. We can and will look at this issue in regard to what the regulatory and market structures are but first things first because we have to get through a tough winter. We have to stand up to Mr. Putin in doing that. The first and most important thing is to protect the most vulnerable. We have a reduced use campaign, social welfare...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Where there are excess profits, which is Deputy Murphy's concern, going to the energy industry-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The real concern among members of the public is that they should not pay too much. The best way of addressing that, be it in a fossil fuel company, from which we will seek a contribution to feed back to the Irish public, or on the----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----electricity side where we will do the same, is through the mechanisms I mentioned, specifically the effective windfall taxes we have within the European Union mechanism. With regard to changing things, were it so easy that we could address and solve all of these problems with a flick of a switch or at a stroke of a pen whereby the regulator has a different position. I do not believe...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The example of what we did on central heating is a very good one. It is fascinating to look at the census from the early 1960s which shows that about half of Irish homes did not have running water or an inside toilet.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: By the mid or late 1980s, as Deputy Healy-Rae said, around 95% of houses had central heating. There was an incredible change over two and a half or three decades. We are going to have a similar change in the next two and a half or three decades. We have to do it. We know we have to switch from the use of fossil fuels to stop the planet from burning. Another advantage of this is that we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: What I am listening to at the moment is the people in the industry who are investing at scale and at speed. The Whitegate oil refinery, which we have retained, is important at this difficult time and is a strategic holding and business that gives us access to fuel supplies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It has said that the approach and policy we are taking will involve using some of the waste products and it can invest and use them in the transport fuel supply chain. This is the most secure and best investment but not the only one. We are going to invest massively in hydrogen and in ammonia in Cork and Shannon because that is where the offshore renewable power will come ashore. At the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Tá brón orm mar níl ach beagán Gaeilge agam agus ní raibh mé ábalta gach focal a thuiscint ach but if I understand the Deputy's question correctly, it addresses the issue of the future of our islands and how we, as a Government and people, can ensure they thrive. I will give a number of reflections on that issue. I had the pleasure of meeting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is that the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands visited Bere Island last week or two weeks ago. I will be honest and say that the members of the committee also need to advise, to recommend and to come forward with regard to the specific policy decision and what the approach is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is that the Minister and the Department are considering that. They should take into account what the Oireachtas committee said, what the island people are saying and any further and other evidence that they can present. I mentioned the experience I have had on the islands not to try to divert but to try to use that experience as I see it to try to inform that debate. As...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I share the Deputy’s abhorrence of what happened in Cherry Orchard the other night. In response to his question on what the State can do and is doing, first, in response to a number of incidents earlier this year, both Cherry Orchard and Ballyfermot local Garda management immediately enhanced their high-visibility policing presence, together with the support and assistance of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We have to address this issue and particularly the related issue of homelessness. There are a number of measures that the Government is looking at. Change is planned on the advertising of property in short-let Airbnb-type facilities in terms of restrictions to make sure those types of properties come back into the rented sector. There are changes to the rules so people are now entitled to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: First, I acknowledge the important, critical and great work that everyone in the section 39 organisations does. I recognise the example of their critical role in that even in this period of strife, their union representatives, as I understand, are looking to ensure essential services continue and that they minimise the impact on service users and their families. Such an impact is not their...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There is a whole series of emergency measures we need to take, including direct payments to households, investing in social welfare contributions, emergency support measures for business and the long list of measures, which I will not read out again, to protect the most vulnerable customers, all of which have been done on an emergency basis. If we try to reconfigure our entire energy system...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is not easy in a single piece of legislation to address the entire consequences of this war for our energy system. We are better to do that in a co-ordinated way.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy that one of the responses to this issue must be the prioritisation of community policy. Some of the actions I mentioned earlier regarding Cherry Orchard could equally apply in towns and cities right across the country. I agree that one of the key investments we should make within the €2 billion in funding that was provided to An Garda Síochána in...