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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Community Development Projects (27 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 56. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to provide an update on the formation of the Dublin North Inner City Task Force; its terms of reference, chair, and timescale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23913/16]

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Various Members have referred to their own constituencies to give examples in the context of the speeding issue and I would like to concentrate on the Minister's constituency rather than my own because we both know it well. According to the Minister's public relations and the media, he occasionally takes the 44 bus home to Enniskerry. Let us take an imaginary journey on that route through...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I know the Minister's constituency and its estates very well. Years ago I was a transport campaigner and was brought to Holland to see all the latest cycling facilities. The most interesting things we saw were woonerf estates, in which the whole street was designed to be safe for all users. In these residential streets, 20 km/h is the standard default speed and every one of the streets I...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The position of the Green Party on water has been clear and consistent over the years. First, we believe there is a right to water, and that is paramount above everything else. Water is not a commercial product; it is vital for life. We recommend a referendum to ensure the water supply is forever within public, rather than private, ownership, recognising the right to water. We believe we...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (29 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will introduce to support families with child care other than subsidisation of paid child care. [27878/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (29 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I do not believe the Government should discriminate between different approaches to parenting and child care. We need to ensure that full-time paid child care facilities are both accessible and of good quality but I argue that we also need to support those parents who decide to provide full-time care themselves or to use relatives, grandparents or a paid child minder. Parents are the best...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (29 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister gave the same response to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I am not calling for a tax credit. I am asking a fundamental question and I want to hear the Minister's view. It is not good enough to just say that it is the view of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Is the Minister, as a Fine Gael Minister, happy that he is about to introduce a budget that,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (29 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: This is a central issue in the budget and there is a raging debate, from what I read in the newspapers, within the Minister for Finance's party about possible discrimination between those on different incomes. I support the Minister, Deputy Zappone, in trying as much as possible to target support for those on low incomes. However, a second massive discrimination is about to be introduced...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (29 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The front page of everything.

Other Questions: State Banking Sector (29 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance the intended timeline for the sale of State ownership in a bank (details supplied); and the timetable and approach behind the reduction in the Government's shareholding in the company. [27529/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: House Prices (29 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the support for first-time buyers being mooted will have an inflationary effect on house pricing consequently defeating the purpose of the proposal in the first place. [27879/16]

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On the Order of Business, the Taoiseach----

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: No. With respect to other business, the Taoiseach earlier in response to a leaders' question said that there would be a meeting of party leaders on the Brexit issue, which is a good move. I was going to ask for that this evening. I assume that will be added on to the 7 o'clock meeting in relation to the Monaghan bombings. We have not had details of it. The Scottish Parliament is...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Can the Taoiseach confirm that there will be a meeting of party leaders at 7 o'clock and that this matter will be debated further then?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework (4 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the timetable for the completion of the national planning framework; and the way he plans to connect that framework to the capital plan. [28665/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party supports the various calls here today for us to reaffirm that our position in the European Union is to uphold a tradition of neutrality and the peacekeeping work we have done down through the years. Has the Taoiseach come under any pressure to increase the defence budget? Apart from the constitutional arrangements, is there any pressure coming from Europe to increase our...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I very much welcome the initiative to establish the summit and to look at the trade issue first. Will the Taoiseach consider using that sectoral approach and having one on the free movement of people, one on security issues and one on the environment? It is a potential way that could evolve given it is so difficult because there are so many issues at play here. What we are facing is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I asked the Taoiseach whether he would consider further strands. They could vary.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (5 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the phase-in schedule for the housing assistance payments scheme, HAP; the number of councils which currently have the HAP scheme; the current expenditure of the HAP scheme; the way in which the rates of the HAP scheme have been effective in succeeding in allowing persons to secure accommodation; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (6 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the inequality in the provision of social protection to those under 25 years of age as opposed to those over that age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29007/16]