Results 23,861-23,880 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The delivery requires support at council level right across the country-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: -----for the planning urgency we need to deliver the housing. No party in this House can point fingers at anyone else about this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The licensing system is no longer in disarray.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The Minister of State, Senator Pippa Hackett, has changed that and turned it round.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: Deputy Bacik said there is not a programme. There is a programme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It is specific, real and fully funded.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It is a €1.3 billion funding mechanism which fundamentally-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: If I can be heard, Ceann Comhairle and Deputy Sherlock.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: I need to correct Deputy Bacik. What she said, that there is not a programme, is not true. There is a specific programme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It was only introduced in November and it is transformative. It will not just be the State which steps up on this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: Farmers right across the country, under that new programme, will have a critical role. There is a range of new, closer-to-nature agroforestry solutions which we have not delivered in the last 90 years of forestation.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It is fundamentally changing and needs to go further.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: Part of that change will be a change to Coillte. It needs to change. It has done a brilliant job but it was legislated for in the late 1980s when the emphasis and focus was on privatisation and commercial lumber production. That has changed. Coillte's mandate will be changed. It is already changing towards a closer-to-nature model. We recognise that what has been done with forestry,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: In my mind, the central part of our new forestation system is where the State and farmers, primarily, as well as private developers, will be involved in delivering new, more natural, more resilient forests.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: That is what we will deliver.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It was launched two months ago.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The reason that programme, which was only launched a matter of weeks ago, is going to work is that there has been a huge increase in premiums, particularly for farmers, who are getting a 20-year premium as opposed to a 15-year premium for others. The grants cover the cost of plantation, tax free.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The premium comes every year, tax free. The sale of the lumber at the end of that goes to the owner tax free.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: That is going to lead to a massive expansion.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Eamon Ryan: It is happening. You would want your head examined to not start investing in forestry under the programme that has been put in place.