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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The regulation of the small public service vehicle (SPSV) industry, including Local Area Hackney services, is a matter for the independent transport regulator, the National Transport Authority (NTA), under the provisions of the Consolidated Taxi Regulation Acts 2013 and 2016. I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of the SPSV industry. Accordingly, I have referred your question...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for the organisation of shared systems such as Leap Card. The issue raised by the Deputy in relation to difficulties procuring a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I am committed to facilitating the Commercial Irish State ports under my remit as positive contributors to the offshore renewable energy industry to support Ireland to meet its ambitious targets of 5GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2030, with a further 2GW in development for the production of green hydrogen and other non-grid uses. Supporting the development of port infrastructure is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally and for the scheduling and timetabling of these services in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. In both the policy and funding areas there have been significant developments since this Government came into office, with the publication of a Sustainable Mobility Policy and its five-year action plan providing strong policy support to the continued expansion and enhancement of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in relation to the national roads programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015, the operation and management of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. Therefore, matters relating to the day to day operations regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. In both the policy and funding areas there have been significant developments since this Government came into office, with the publication of a new Sustainable Mobility Policy and its five-year action plan providing strong policy support to the continued expansion and enhancement...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister of Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding of public transport. The operation, maintenance and renewal of the rail network and stations on the network including the former station referred to at Crusheen, Co Clare, is a matter for Iarnród éireann in the first instance. In view of Iarnród éireann's responsibility in this matter, I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy may know, the All-Island Strategic Rail Review is being undertaken in co-operation with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The results of the review will inform the development of the railway sector on the Island of Ireland over the coming decades. The Review is considering the future of the rail network with regard to the following ambitions:...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Having an effective and reliable charging network is an essential part of enabling drivers to make the switch to electric vehicles and home charging is the primary charging method for most Irish EV owners as it’s convenient and cheaper for the consumer as well as assisting in the overall management of the national grid. Over 80% of charging is expected to happen at home. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Electric vehicles (EVs) are the most prominent transport mitigation measure in the Climate Action Plan and Ireland has set an ambitious target of 945,000 EVs on our roads by 2030. This target is challenging but indicates the scale of the transformation that is needed across all sectors if Ireland is to achieve its climate targets in the coming years. Demand for electric vehicles is rising...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: First things first, since the very start of this crisis on 7 October and the response from the Israeli Government and military, the Irish Government has been absolutely clear and adamant and was first up in the European context in calling for a ceasefire and an end to hostilities. The wording of the motion could not be clearer that our absolute and overwhelming priority must be to advocate...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I regret that we could not get the wording to Deputy Bacik sooner but we had to get it through Government. In the absence of agreement by Government, it was very hard to share it. It is very important we do get agreement. Part of the reason the people want the Government to take a strong line on this is that historically, as a State, we have stood up for the UN Declaration of Human Rights,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The energy security package grounds Ireland's energy policy on three policy objectives: sustainability, affordability, and security. Action 2 of the package commits to standardising the approach used to evaluate the affordability of new and existing policy initiatives for consumers. My Department is committed to ensuring policies that have an impact on consumers are evidence-based, with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: There are two key reasons for those high bills, the first of which is the very distributed nature of our population, which makes it very expensive to provide the grid and other infrastructure to service every house. The other key fundamental is that we are still generating some half of our electricity from the use of gas. Those countries which have a high gas component in their electricity...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We have one of the most distributed housing settlement patterns in Europe. There is no other country that has a similar pattern of one-off housing. It is expensive. The wires have to be brought to every house and that is by definition expensive. This is not going to change, but it is a reality. It is one of the reasons for high costs not just in electricity but also in water supply and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Quality (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The national air quality monitoring stations are operated, maintained and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency under the ambient air quality monitoring programme. My Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years and the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 116 today. All stations collect air quality data for a...