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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: The new runway, for which planning permission was granted in 2007 has the potential to create jobs and boost the economy. However, the permission came with conditions and the plan by the DAA to seek the setting aside of two of these conditions, conditions 3 and 5 regarding night-time flying and noise restrictions, has been strongly resisted by the local communities. What is especially...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: For the Minister to say specifically that the IAA, as the new competent authority, will not be bound by conditions in previous planning permissions is a major problem for planning law and planning decisions in the past. For better or worse, the people see this as a means to assist the DAA to get around the problem it has with those conditions. The DAA has every right to seek to change the...

Other Questions: Olympic Games Ticketing Arrangements (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 9. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve public confidence in the Olympic Council of Ireland after the fall-out from the Rio Olympics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32786/16]

Other Questions: Olympic Games Ticketing Arrangements (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: While our athletes at the Rio Olympics succeeded in doing our country proud, they were let down by the debacle of the president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, OCI, being arrested. In light of the Deloitte report on the OCI, what will the Minister do to restore faith in the organisation?

Other Questions: Olympic Games Ticketing Arrangements (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: Pat Hickey has been president of the OCI for an incredible 28 years. While he has said he has stepped aside he still officially retains the position while he is under house arrest in Rio de Janeiro, which is equally incredible. We continue to have a major problem with trust in institutions in this country. The average level of trust in four national institutions, Government, business, the...

Other Questions: Airport Development Projects (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the building of a second runway in Dublin Airport will be designed and constructed to ensure it complements the delivery of metro north and to ensure the DAA liaises with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, on an ongoing basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32783/16]

Other Questions: Airport Development Projects (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: I am asking the question from the point of view of metro north, which I support, and ensuring any other major projects at Dublin Airport do not delay or impact on the delivery of metro north. With a new runway on the horizon and planning permission granted for a large hotel beside Terminal 2, there is no shortage of major works planned for Dublin Airport. I want to ensure any plans have...

Other Questions: Airport Development Projects (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: I know discussions have taken place with Transport Infrastructure Ireland since the Minister came to office, and the previous Government had set aside funding for the design of the new metro north. The rigour with which metro north was measured against other possible transport solutions for the Swords airport corridor ensures, without doubt, that metro north is the best long-term transport...

Other Questions: Airport Development Projects (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: The key is to get metro north started, and if we can get it started, it will continue to completion. I met representatives of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and they were of the view that it will have the potential to start it within its revenues earlier than the Minister's timeline. Will the Minister do everything he can to facilitate that early start for metro north and not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure Ireland complies with European transport 2050 targets to reduce emissions, including, the target to move 30% of freight transport to rail networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32784/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that any privatisation of the public transport network, required under EU rules, should be contingent on maintaining disability access on these routes or providing disability access where none exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32782/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disability Services Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will develop and implement a solution to the mind the gap issue on Irish trains in order to allow wheelchair users to get off and on trains at all stops throughout Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32785/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of new building works for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32994/16]

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 9. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of all the meetings that she has held to date with her Cabinet colleagues, with her Department, with her departmental agencies and with external stakeholders to address the challenges facing businesses in the face of Brexit and specifically in view of the decline in the value of sterling. [33015/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (3 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she has taken to date to transcribe directive 2014/104/EU on antitrust damages actions into Irish law; and if she will confirm that the directive will be fully transcribed by 27 December 2016 in order to ensure that Irish businesses will be able to fully recover damages suffered as a result of infringements of EU...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tax Code (3 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of her proposal to offer a lower rate of tax to returning emigrants; if she has discussed her proposals with the Minister for Finance; and her views on whether such a proposal complies with European Union law on the freedom of movement of workers. [33016/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (3 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether there is inertia in the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission with regard to in-depth investigations into price fixing cartels and bid rigging; her further views on whether there is a lack of prosecutions for offences under the Competition Act 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33013/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Data (3 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authorities which excluded from their scheme tenants who do not occupy every bedroom in their house, with regard to the current tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33127/16]

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: It is open to every party to use its Private Member's time in whatever way it wishes, but it is disappointing that Sinn Féin is seeking to politicise Deputies pay and the implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement itself. The same Deputies take every cent of pay, expenses and allowances available to fund their political activity. Sinn Féin elected representatives take pay,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (8 Nov 2016)

Brendan Ryan: 475. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of aeroplanes that land and take off at Dublin Airport on an average week between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.; the number of planes that off-load or take on passengers or freight; the number of aeroplanes that stop for refuelling only, with a breakdown by each day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33440/16]