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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (15 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Government is fully committed to supporting a significant expansion and modernisation of the electric vehicle (EV) charging network over the coming years. A draft national charging infrastructure strategy for the development of EV charging infrastructure, covering the crucial period out to 2025 was published for consultation in March. The draft strategy sets out the government’s...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Today is an important day. For 100 years, we have operated as a democracy. It is important we follow the constitutional order today in electing a Taoiseach and a new Cabinet and Government. The metaphor I was using is that it is like half time. The captain's armband will be passed from one to the other but it will be a similar team and I am certain that on Monday morning Tánaiste...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I want to focus and concentrate in my contribution to the debate tonight on the role of the Green Party in this Government and what we intend doing in the next two years. I do so remembering, critically, two and a half years ago when we joined the Government and agreed a programme for Government, that the leader of the European Green Party, whose assessment would be well informed because we...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, it will. We do not have an option.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We do not have an option in Irish law. The law we have written is one of the strongest climate laws in the world. We do not have an option. The Deputy will have heard the President of the European Commission, Dr. von der Leyen, speaking here only two or three weeks ago, saying this is the centre of the European strategy and a whole swathe of European law, which is steering us in that...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I believe that the Irish business community, but, more importantly, the Irish people, want to and will do this. It takes time to turn this complete ship of State - all of it - around but we will do it. What is the best way? We learnt a great deal in Covid. We learnt that Government works best when it works in teams outside of the normal silos of Departments. We are busy establishing...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: This week, we will start to see the consents being provided for the first phase of offshore projects. Next spring, subject to them going through an auction process that we are establishing now, they will go into the planning system. The planning constraint is the biggest. We have to expand An Bord Pleanála dramatically and speed up our whole planning process because it is killing us...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, we need to change forestry. The felling licence system has been changed and we will deliver it.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We switch to tillage and to organic. It is happening. Look at the applications for the new environmental agri scheme - they have blown way beyond what was expected. Look at the farm visits that are taking place when organic farmers open their farms. There are hundreds of farmers going along because they realise they could save money by not having to spend so much on expensive fertiliser....

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Those pathfinder projects are showing our local government system how we can act fast, use budgets well and get local support for what are going to be difficult decisions about reallocating space, doing things differently, taking out parking, creating high-quality bus corridors and other mechanisms to save us from gridlock as well as reducing our emissions. I am sorry for going on so long on...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is not easy. No-one wants anyone in a tent at all, least of all the Minister and his team, but they have done everything to do this in a compassionate way and we cannot stop. As President von der Leyen said, we need that stubborn optimism where we do take more. We do not know how long this war is going to go on and there is no certainty on this, but closing our door is not an option. I...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----and shown how in government we could turn what was a disastrous system into a highly effective one. We need to do more work. The most important project we have to do in government, which was in the programme for Government, is the land use review. It is a high-level overview of what is happening in our country in terms of the destruction of nature-----

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----the pollution of our waters and ongoing carbon emissions.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We now have to start planning. It is not just about climate. There are three ecological crises facing us, namely, climate, biodiversity loss and pollution. We have to face all three in our country. The recent EPA figures from the south-east of our country show the water is saturated with nitrogen. That has to stop. Our waters should not only run free; they should be clean at the same time.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That is what we need to deliver. We are halfway through that project in this Government.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We have done the first phase in terms of an evidence base, and we will do the next phase working in the same way, whereby we listen to different communities, sectors and academics. The Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, will deliver on marine protected areas. We will have a science-based ecological understanding at the centre of what we do. That is what we are going to deliver in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chair and wish him and the members, "Good afternoon." I thank the committee for the invitation to appear before it regarding its consideration of Ireland's national aviation policy. Our current policy was published in August 2015, which was a little more than 20 years since a previous formal statement of objectives had been made in respect of aviation. I think we can all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We do have to be there at two o'clock, Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Deputy Crowe that we have an imbalance in our country. Approximately 95% of customers come into Dublin Airport, 95% of roll-on, roll-off, ro-ro, freight containers come through Dublin Port and half of all new housing is being built in the greater Dublin area. I agree that we have an imbalance. A whole variety of measures will need to be taken to address this issue, primarily...