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Adjournment Debate: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (31 May 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad to have the opportunity to raise this issue which is exercising the minds of many people in the environmental community. I am glad to see the Minister is here and I thank him for attending in person. I am using this opportunity as a chance for discussion. As a former Minister, I have a high regard for the Department and feel that getting the proper name for it is important....

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am very happy on behalf of the Green Party to support the Labour Party motion. I will set out a couple of thoughts in the few short minutes I have. We live in a world where capital moves quickly. It can move from one part of the world to another in the blink of an eye and without any real controls. There is completely free movement of capital. In that same world, labour and migration...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I was just looking around and thinking that I am probably the only member of the Sub-committee on Dáil Reform who is also on this committee. It is interesting that the Chairman says that one of our tasks is to report back to that committee. That committee has worked very well and we should try to adopt the same sort of collaborative arrangements that have taken place in that committee....

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: That it is a very good point and a good question. I refer back to the comments of the Taoiseach yesterday on the Order of Business where he clearly indicated that it is not just a situation where we all step back, wait and think about what we will do in February 2017 in terms of the 2018 process. The point made by Deputies Burton and Doherty is right. We could, as part of our consideration...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: If we are to avoid an October moment, or a big bang, we have to engage in June because, as I understand it, the expenditure proposals and the European process involve the State presenting to Brussels our broad initial expenditure outlines and so on. We have to think about how we would get involved. At the very least we could and should ensure that the written element of the Estimates bids...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: To be honest, I do not see any reason why the meeting should be in private.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I cannot imagine there will be anything-----

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Could we not add, notwithstanding anything agreed by the CPP, that on this occasion we-----

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: As has been said, we must work out our own arrangements in that regard. It is a pity, because I cannot imagine anything earth shattering will arise.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 60. To ask the Minister for Health the measures taken to reduce the amount of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions; and if he will consider the creation of a special task force to assess and mitigate the growing threat of antibiotic resistant infections. [13770/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (2 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 74. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations on general practitioner contracts; the timeframe envisaged; and his vision for the revised general practitioner contract. [13769/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Hazardous Waste Removal (2 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the remediation works carried out on the former Irish Glass Bottle site have identified all the chemicals on and being released from the site, including methane; if the current contamination levels are safe, or if further remediation works are necessary. [14162/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (2 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the requirement to provide social housing as part of the Spencer Dock development project on North Wall Quay in the Dublin docklands; if he has agreed the use of a site at the junction of Sheriff Street Upper and New Wapping Street for the provision of such social housing; the legal status for such a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum (2 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will establish the Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum; the members of the forum he has selected under the provisions of section 39 of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Act 2015; when the first meetings of the forum will take place; and if he will lay formal advice or proposals...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his meetings with the Irish food industry regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the EU Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. [14245/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides and the State's monitoring of the reduction in bee numbers; the bee population in the years 2006 to 2016 to date. [14246/16]

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: In answer to Deputy Barrett, our job is to put in place the processes and in this respect the Government submission to the select committee on arrangements for budgetary scrutiny helps us to outline the milestones and the timelines. As the secretariat said last week, the best thing we could do is to slightly test the timeline and the process and the best way of doing so is to apply what we...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of order-----

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am sure there will be resistance. That is all the more reason to push against it. This committee's remit was given by the Dáil reform committee, not by the Government. There were extensive discussions at meetings of the Dáil reform committee on the legal aspects. We do not need to get caught up in a legal quagmire. We have already discussed a lot of the legal powers around...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: One cannot do it if it is not a real-world discussion. It must be done in real time and, as one we are doing that, we must be set up the full committee. This session is only going to last for one month or two months but we should do the June and July stuff.