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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The State needs to expand. We need more services, houses and hospitals. We need to pay for them by creating a sound economy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: A whole range of reliefs are available. There are reliefs available for the rental sector, which the Deputy would acknowledge is an area in need of real support. Returning to a point I made earlier to Deputy Tóibín, the Central Bank has the key regulatory role. It does not set the interest rates on commercial operators, but when it comes to the commercial decisions, it does have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----are best made as part of the budgetary process.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We need to pay people properly, but as I said a moment ago, we need the income stream to support that. There is a lot of understanding and sympathy within the Government for the case the Deputy is making because workers in section 39 organisations are doing very important caring and other valuable work for the State. They are not directly employed by the State, but that should not absolve...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I have not yet had a chance to read the article in the Irish Examiner. I am, however, certain that if one party has clearly and explicitly said that we planted in the wrong places on peatland soils, it is the Green Party.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party has made that point in government and in opposition. What we said when we were in opposition-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----was that we would change the forestry programme so that it would promote a variety of different-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----forestry approaches. The previous approach, which included monocultural clear-felling on upland peat soils, must come to an end. It is coming to an end. I am sure the EU would agree with that point and so do we.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: It is happening. We have introduced a new forestry programme that switches the approach. The land use review will copper-fasten that approach.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: This country works on a partnership basis. I mentioned Government earlier. The Government listens through the National Economic and Social Council and the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF, where we meet both employers and unions. One of the most positive and progressive developments in the past year has been the willingness of employers and unions to advance and improve the recognition...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I understand the Deputy's motivation and the importance of the matter she has raised. I do not have the details on the appropriate delivery of such a service. I will ask the Minister's officials to make sure the Department of Health responds as quickly as possible to the information provided.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We are all concerned about the situation that has evolved. It has been there for some time but was particularly acute in the first weeks of January this year.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: That concern over a period of time is why there has been an additional 1,161 staff in University Hospital Limerick in the past three or four years. One thing I am glad of is that, in that two-week period since that first crisis, the numbers, as I understand, have come right down. That should not-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: That should not make us complacent. We need the additional beds and resources. We need to support the management of emergency departments so that we do not have that bottleneck-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The policy decision by Government is clear. We are going to introduce the ability for private lines so that industry will be able to generate its own power and have battery storage and other systems that will allow it to be part of not just meeting our immediate energy security needs, which are very real, but also the need for decarbonisation. I will have to come back to the Deputy on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I had a meeting with the board of TII earlier this week. I said to it, as I will say to the Deputy, that we have a huge volume of projects. There are projects worth more than €70 billion, and that was before the inflationary period, with a €34 billion national development plan, NDP, pool and a pool where we have committed 10% funding to active travel and 20% funding to public...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The instruction we gave to CRU last April was to reverse that approach, and that has been done. In 2010, if I recall rightly, our economy was at real risk. The price of electricity for industrial providers was historically much higher than other European competing countries. There was a real risk of major job losses at a time when our economy was in real difficulty and in danger. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I believe it was appropriate at the time when our economy was at risk to make that change. I believe it is appropriate now for us to have directed CRU to reverse it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I go back to what I said to Deputy Doherty, namely, it is about quality and not just quantity, and we need to get balanced and good quality planning and development. I believe the national planning framework is correct in that we need more balanced regional development, more compact development and low carbon development. That means we need to see Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Again, I am afraid I am not as knowledgeable as the Deputy on the particular issue. I am uncertain as to whether it is the Minister for Justice or the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who should take this.