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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the result of the recent patronage competition for secondary schools in County Dublin, Firhouse, Lucan, Swords, Carpenterstown, Castleknock, Malahide and Portmarnock will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there has been an increase or decrease in the average domestic usage of water, outwith usual variations, since the suspension of charges was implemented; and if so, the amount per person on average. [31866/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Environmental Schemes (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 383. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role she has regarding the maintenance of ecosystem functions, including carbon sequestration and surface water management as well as the protection of biodiversity, in peatlands and cutover peatlands which are not subject to a nature conservation designation. [32132/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 498. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays being experienced by children in the Dublin 15 area in accessing occupational therapy assessment by the paediatric occupational therapy team in Blanchardstown and that a person (details supplied) has been waiting 15 months for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32133/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 537. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether it will not be possible, under current energy policy, to reach the 2020 renewable electricity target without deploying a broader range of renewable technologies, including offshore wind and solar, in view of the fact that Ireland’s 2020 EU targets for renewable electricity are legally binding...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether offshore wind has an important role to play in reaching our renewable obligations for 2020 in view of the fact that the cost of offshore wind is set to fall dramatically. [31865/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social work team leader and principal social worker positions within the child and family agency filled on an acting basis. [32130/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for leaving the meeting. I had to ask a question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade; it did not indicate a lack of interest in this subject. I read the presentations and saw the briefs and found it all very interesting. I am not satisfied with the response from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to Deputy Stanley's question. I am surprised at it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. How did we lobby on that or was there lobbying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Surely, we are counting it in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, as mentioned earlier. Given the accounting mechanism is there, we have to do it anyway. My understanding is that many of the reduction targets could come from re-wetting. My understanding of the science is that how a restoration of a habitat like that stores carbon is far more certain than the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: My fear is we will have cut away every square inch of bog by the time we come to that conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Is it likely there will be an increase in ambition as part of the Paris Agreement?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: All party leaders would be good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Sub-committee on Infrastructure, Environment and Climate Action last met; and when the next meeting is to take place. [31825/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Taoiseach for accepting a delegation of the environmental movement yesterday - Trócaire, Environmental Pillar, the Jesuits, Friends of the Earth and the Climate Gathering - and allowing it to make a presentation last night on the national dialogue on climate change. I hope I am not speaking out of class here, but the Taoiseach's comments in that meeting in which he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The scale of the change we need to make is phenomenal. It was clear from the presentation given to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment yesterday that we are nowhere near doing what we need to do. We will not meet any of our renewables targets. We will be one of only two countries in Europe to fail to meet emissions reduction targets; we are...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It is useful for us to be able to review the European Council discussions. It is useful to have a debate beforehand and afterwards. It is where so much of our key political discourse is taking place and it is appropriate for the House to spend time giving attention to it. This brings us to the big issues. It brings us out of the local and into the international and the great forces...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It is true that we all await some clear understanding of what is the UK Government's position, but one thing the British Prime Minister did seem to make clear in her speech at the conference was that the UK Government post-Brexit would not recognise the Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, as a court of arbitration. In any of his discussions, informal or otherwise, with UK Ministers...

Other Questions: Energy Conservation (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the stage at which the development of smart metering for every home is; and the way such a scheme will be funded. [32081/16]

Other Questions: Energy Conservation (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is right that in some areas we are leading. There are not many, and I am not too sure whether we are leading in some of the areas he mentioned, but an area where I know we are not leading but falling dramatically behind is that of demand management efficiency and domestic home management energy systems. We have no smart metering programme roll-out ready. We have been working...