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Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. However, it is possible for business and enterprise to adhere to a different culture. Such a change is required and the Government must take responsibility in this regard. Many Members observed that we could have been a champion in the EU for the ferries directive, which would have precisely dealt with this particular issue. I look forward to the Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher's,...

Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: The importance of this issue demands that the senior and junior Ministers from the relevant Departments should be here. Such a response by the Government would be indicative of the change of culture that we seek. It would show that this House takes the matter seriously, that the State is not dominated by corporate interests and that we will occasionally flex our muscles as a democratic...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (11 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the approximate cost to the Exchequer of the quota and tagging system; the scientific advice available to him as to the maximum commercial fishing quota consistent with conservation needs; the commercial fishing quotas appointed; the commercial catch; the benefit to wild salmon stocks derived from the operation...

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will move to a single stock management system for the commercial netting of wild salmon; the timetable for such a change. [28333/05]

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: The national salmon commission could not agree what time of day it is, let alone this issue, and the Minister of State knows that. The Oireachtas committee has examined this complex issue in detail and drew a simple, urgent and adamant conclusion, which is the move towards single-stock management. Recognising that it will take some years to do that, the committee recommended an interim...

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: We have done so and we came to that simple conclusion.

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: It is.

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: It is.

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Ignoring the scientific advice.

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Prior to my election to this House, I spent my entire working life on the Donegal coast and I know exactly what the Minister of State is talking about and I appreciate the need for social development. However, it is in the interests of those people as much as those of everybody else that we follow scientific advice and protect the species for the long-term future of those people. While the...

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: We can only catch 100,000 fish.

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister of State should make a decision one way or the other.

Energy Resources. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: I warmly welcome the Minister's comments ruling out nuclear power as a future option in this country. I endorse those comments but I differ with him on one point. One of the main arguments against it, as well as the environmental one, is that economically it makes no sense. It is probably the most expensive form of power. Given that our renewable energy supplies are significantly cheaper at...

Energy Resources. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: I have one final brief question.

Energy Resources. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask a question about what the Minister said?

Energy Resources. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: The grid is a problem. Why are we spending so many billions designing it in a way that does not suit renewables? Will the Minister give a direction to the ESB or the CER to change the investment so that spending on the grid supports renewables rather than, as is the case at present, spending money which blocks renewables?

Fisheries Protection. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: All parties were party to the report. It does not recommend a complete end to commercial netting but hopes that better management will bring an end to it in the future. I can speak for my party — I do not know what the Fianna Fáil members can say. The Green Party requests that the Minister of State act on the report's recommendations. The Minister of State is willing to talk about buy-out...

Energy Resources. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Given that in the future we will be dependent on gas for electricity generation and that gas will shortly come from Siberia which is at risk of interruption for a number of reasons, is the Minister considering long-term storage systems such as the pumping back of gas into the Seven Heads of Kinsale field as a storage location or the installation or development of an LNG facility to provide...

Energy Resources. (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Would it be cheaper to hold on to what we have in the Corrib field until we need it, and then take it out and use it as a secure supply?

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on behalf of my party. I concur with Deputy Finian McGrath's comments about asylum seekers. While this issue is not central to the legislation, I regret there was not greater co-operation between the Departments of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Justice, Equality and Law Reform to use the Bill to set conditions that would enable...