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Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Line after line of the European Commission's country report last week emphasised the point that under-investment in capital expenditure is a weakness in, and a real threat to, the Irish economy. I can quote from the report if the Minister, Deputy Howlin, wishes.

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Eamon Ryan: According to the report, "the current levels of capital expenditure in Ireland are barely sufficient".

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am making a statement.

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Eamon Ryan: No, it is a statement to the House, a Cheann Comhairle.

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am telling the House what the European Commission is saying. According to the report I have mentioned, "the current levels of capital expenditure in Ireland are barely sufficient to replace the existing stock of public capital". It also points out that "net public investment ... was negative or close to zero in 2012 to 2014". I agree with other Deputies who have said during this debate...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Take the time out of the later debate.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of order, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of order, if time is such a difficulty, I suggest we take that time difference out of the later debate and use our time here to discuss what is the important political issue of our time.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Where was the agreement that we would cut to three minutes?

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I join others in congratulating and commending everybody who took part in the Easter 1916 commemorations. One moment struck home for me on Sunday, 27 March, outside the GPO. The words of the Army's head chaplain rang true when he said:Another day begins. Give us the courage to step on new ground, eyes young again with energy and dreams. Help us to believe in beginnings, to listen to the...

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I probably will not.

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I do not and if I can, I will be brief.

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to echo the earlier comments of Deputy Catherine Murphy and a number of other speakers. Those of us who are members of this sub-committee on Dáil reform have pretty much common agreement that it is working well. Nothing could illustrate this better than the contrast with this Chamber which, in the first three days on which it has been sitting has not had the same sense of...

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On this side of the democratic system, Members have a responsibility not to flood the public administration system with so many questions that its staff is unable to do its job effectively.

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Acting Chairman because it is necessary to engage the public service in this process and it is necessary for Members to play their bit in getting real in holding the Government to account and getting real with what is happening in Europe, as well as holding what is happening in Europe and overseas to account. Consequently, all Members have a responsibility. I believe the...

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The ability to go into real detail, as the joint committee did, on issues such as broadband or energy policy is the central training ground. Effectively, in politics knowledge is power and the knowledge of what one can really do to improve society and the economy comes from those years and years of hard work and hidden committee work. This is what Members must strengthen and what they must...

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: There even could be arrangements to have a mechanism whereby, when Members are in a row and it is going really wrong, someone rings a bell and all Members take a deep breath and breathe for ten or 60 or 100 seconds before they resume.

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It might be a nice reform to introduce some reflection and pause for thought in Members' working procedures. Members should be creative, innovative and open to different mechanisms. I stated I would not take the full allotted time and in that spirit, I am happy to note this sub-committee is working. I look forward to the rest of its work and that spirit infusing wider political reform in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why no pedestrian crossing has been built for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 even though this was a condition of the planning permission that she received from Dublin City Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6143/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 777. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the new initiative and funds for expediting the taking-in-charge of estates that he announced in February 2016, including details regarding the criteria that must be met before a local authority can have an estate included in the initiative; if mixed commercial and residential estates which have not been...