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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 821. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timescale and costs for the reopening of the Phoenix Park tunnel and associated rail line to passenger traffic; if any others stations on that line such as at the Old Cabra Road and Phibsboro will open in order to reduce car commuter traffic into the city centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23908/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policy Reviews (21 Jul 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 822. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for a pedestrian strategy as promised in the smarter travel policy some years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policy Reviews (21 Jul 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 823. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the implementation of the smarter travel policy; and if the targets contained therein have been met. [23910/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (21 Jul 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 824. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the appointments he has made to State or other boards since he was appointed to office. [23911/16]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Analysis of Economic Forecasts: Central Bank of Ireland (6 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: This has been summer of real reputational damage to the economic side of the Irish State. We have the Apple case, a massive revision of our GDP figures and a third lesser, but not insignificant, issue was the failure of some of our clearing banks to pass the EU stress tests. They were among the few banks on the warning lists in the stress tests which took place earlier in the summer. In...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Analysis of Economic Forecasts: Central Bank of Ireland (6 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: One of the other interesting thrift figures in the summer was the returns being ahead or behind profile in some cases. One of the major profiles ahead of it was the Central Bank's own surplus income to the State, about €170 million or a 19% increase. Can Dr. Fagan explain where that is coming from? Are there any risks that the Central Bank assesses itself, or indeed potential that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Analysis of Economic Forecasts: Central Bank of Ireland (6 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: In terms of the broad macro-economic assessment, is it capital, current or tax reductions we should favour?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Analysis of Economic Forecasts: Central Bank of Ireland (6 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: If the bank could provide that before the budget and we as a committee could get some of that material, it would be useful.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Nevin Economic Research Institute (6 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I was interested to hear Dr. McDonnell say that the economy is not overheating. While I agree that might be the case in terms of inflation, in other areas, such as housing, transport and so on we are, to use a different language, facing capacity constraints. Is there any economic analysis to which we could turn which shows how to ramp up capital spend in particular areas, as we need to do...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Nevin Economic Research Institute (6 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: May I ask the witness why that is? Why does he think our income taxation system is so inequitable and out of kilter with those relating to other economies?

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It is a terrible pity we do not have the final judgment from the European Commission and that we only got the Department of Finance's arguments late last night. However, I think we know enough to call it here between right and wrong and to make the call in terms of whether we should appeal or how we should appeal. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, set out in his speech, as...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Donnelly is taking seven minutes so I have two minutes left.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: What the Taoiseach said today was similar to what Deputy Barry said. That is a rarity. The Taoiseach argued that we are not good at developing our own business. Deputy Barry said something similar for some Trotskyist reason I do not quite understand. He indicated that our capitalist system in this country is not working. I understood the Taoiseach when he said that Ireland as a country...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Minister indicate what contact or discussions he has had with the US Government in this regard and whether he expects that Administration or European governments to take up the suggestion within the Commission's PR that the final tax paid in Ireland might not be €13 billion, in that the US Administration might collect an amount of that or European governments could change...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 6:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann:” and substitute the following: “(i) commits itself to the highest international standards in transparency in the taxation of the corporate sector; (ii) resolves that no company or individual shall receive preferential tax treatment contrary to the Tax Acts; (iii) notes the decision of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Economic and Social Research Institute (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: What about equality for someone who might want to take a break? The tax system, through individualisation, very much steers people towards working and two incomes. I agree it should be left to the mother or father. Why would we make that decision for some parents who may have a different view?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Economic and Social Research Institute (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: No, I will come back to that previous argument that the Fianna Fáil decision to invest in child benefit left it to the parents to decide, rather than economists, what was good for kids.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Economic and Social Research Institute (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: That is a philosophical view.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Economic and Social Research Institute (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Professor Barrett and Professor McQuinn for the breadth of issues they have covered thus far. I would like to make one comment and ask one brief question. In regard to Professor McQuinn's point on the counter-cyclical tweaking of macro-prudential models for the Central Bank, I have two slight concerns: first, how would that work in a situation where, say, there is a three- or...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Economic and Social Research Institute (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Yesterday, I spoke to a civil servant with responsibility for implementing policy in this area. The Paris Accord - which I presume Europe is going to sign, or else we are just pirates - involves changing our entire energy, transport, food and built environment systems over two, three or four decades. It is change of a scale that dwarfs the changes made from the 1960s up to now in terms of...