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Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: No, I do not believe it did. The rectification will similarly not benefit any company. The way we have arranged for emergency generation is time-limited and will come to an end. Plant will have to be sold on or decommissioned. While it is an unusual intervention, it is designed in such a way as not to undermine our market investment in other plant. We expect some 900 MW of plant in total...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: It is unprecedented and I recognise that it is difficult on households across the country. We have a responsibility as the Government to try to protect our people and help them to get through this time, when energy is being used as a weapon of war and high prices are hitting home. I will set out what we have been doing. People opposite have heard it before, but it bears repeating. The...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In fact, I argued for them the most at the European Council.

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: When we introduce the legislation in the coming weeks, it will be seen that we have some of the highest standards and most rigorous application of those European tools.

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Government approved windfall taxes and will introduce them. The Deputy will say that the way we do it means we are the weakest in Europe in that regard, but the exact opposite is the truth. Similarly in terms of market reform, it would be easy to say we should just apply a cap. Some of those windfall measures effectively apply a cap, but other caps would come with large potential costs...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We want to do it to ensure it is optimal for the public, but simplistic solutions-----

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The idea that, but for the political will, we would suddenly have a market system that both delivered cheaper renewable power that we have access to and gave us security is not the real world. We will work and engage with Europe on that reform - we are in the middle of it, with a European Council meeting last week - and I look forward to hearing Sinn Féin's suggestions on what the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chair. I am pleased to have this opportunity to come before the committee and address the matters raised regarding Inland Fisheries Ireland, IFI. I am keen to assist the committee in further understanding recent events. As the committee will be aware, there have been a number of resignations from the board of IFI, including two chairpersons in the period from April 2022. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: For the last year or more there have been significant difficulties at IFI. I had appointed Mr. Conleth Bradley, SC, to look at issues of public concern within the board that had been raised in the media. It was more appropriate for that process to be concluded rather than replacing board members in the middle of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: To be clear, In my actions here I am not accusing anyone of wrongdoing. We acted on that report and followed its recommendations. One recommendation was to not dissolve the board which was being considered at that time. Instead, it was recommended to give it the opportunity to try to resolve the various matters. Subsequent to that, a number of further resignations took place. Following...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Clearly it was something that was worked on with the Government's colleagues. There was a number of weeks between that meeting and getting the Government decision to act in that way

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I believe they received it in September.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As I said, there was every prospect that the recommendations report could have been implemented in the subsequent months since then up to February this year. It became clear to me that was not going to be possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As I said in my introductory statement, such were the difficulties by that stage that the board was not able to actually function. It was not having meetings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Senator has made a number of accusations, which has been characteristic of this issue for the last year. There have been accusations and counter accusations of a personal nature. I am not engaging in that. I am trying to assess whether it could have been restored as a board with the appointment of new members. I came to the clear position that was not possible. In such circumstances,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As I said, I had a significant meeting with the outgoing chair-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: No. To answer the Senator's second question, as I said in my opening statement, I have asked Mr. Barry and Mr. Neely to carry out an external review of governance within IFI. That, by definition, can and could include looking at the legislative provisions. That was not the difficulty here and I will not go into the long history, which others have already done in public and elsewhere....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Part of the problem here is that there has been a lot of speculation and accusation. I am not accusing the Senator of doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As he suggested, I do not want to continue with that. I do not want to impugn the motives of anyone who may have resigned previously. As to what their motives or reasons for departing are, some may have good reasons, personal or otherwise, in their daily lives. I am not impugning members of the board which we have dissolved. That would only add to what has been the problem here, namely, a...