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- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: Is that the 2014 outturn?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: Was it the exact same amount?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: I have a brief supplementary question. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, spoke about ensuring productivity in what we are doing. Will the Minister share with members of the committee the latest analysis from RTE's review of its operations? Is there a departmental review or could we see RTE's own review of its efficiency and productivity?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: I have a quick question. What is its audience share?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: If I could-----
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: This is my last one. Would the Minister consider bringing his NewERA team to look at RTE's options in terms of alternative sites for RTE? Could we look at Moore St. for example? It is a big development area in the centre of town. We could put RTE back where it started near Henry St. and the centre of the foundation of the State. We could launch thousands of new Eircode addresses for...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: That is not a bad idea.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: Does the Department have a best estimate about the status of renewable energy targets for electricity, heat and transport in 2020? I would also add energy efficiency to that within the 20% target we had.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: The stability programme update for the first time accounted for the risk of the State facing large fines for not meeting EU emissions targets. This relates to renewable targets as well. I do not have the exact figures but if the State misses the renewable targets, there will be fines of hundreds of millions of euro annually because we are nowhere near them. We do not have a snowball's...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: In respect of output figures, we have a million oil-fired central heating systems and we could get rid of the lot of them. We have only a thousand electric vehicles; that number needs to multiply by a factor of five or ten, which would give us benefits in terms of balancing supply, as would getting rid of the oil-fired central heating systems and replacing them with heat pumps. We need to...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: I welcome the new Minister of State and wish him luck in his portfolio. To answer the question put by Robert Watt, the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, to the national economic dialogue, "Where would you save?", one immediate saving we should make is to shut down our petroleum services division. It would not result in a huge saving but there is no moral...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: That will kill the planet.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: When were the licences signed?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: Was that during the interregnum or the Government period?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: This is a serious issue. In my time, I saw things done during the interregnum that should not have been done. We should not sign anything in the middle of an interregnum. I have seen it happen on several occasions and it is just not right. It is an issue.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: Yes. How does that happen?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Eamon Ryan: Please give me the full details.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2016)
Eamon Ryan: This time three years ago, a young man from Finglas had just done his leaving certificate and was thinking of going to Spain - Magaluf or wherever - with his friends. We all know this type of scenario. Instead, he accompanied his sisters to Egypt. They went there on a regular basis because they had cousins in Egypt. They got caught up in the protests of the time. My 17 year old son would...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2016)
Eamon Ryan: What I hear from the Minister's response is that he has no new initiatives. He has no different plan, even three or four days after this latest setback. In the interim, we have still been doing trade deals with Egypt, as if there were no problem. I suggest that we start to raise this at a higher level, at European level. This is the sort of issue in respect of which we should be putting...
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)
Eamon Ryan: I listened to Deputy Moynihan read out the business, but I was not certain that it included a possible debate on the Ibrahim Halawa case. I know from a meeting earlier that there is a hope to hold that debate. Do we have to amend the Order of Business tomorrow morning to make that happen?