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Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to share time with Deputy Seamus Healy. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the critical issue of how we develop our transport system and how we improve our infrastructure, particularly in rural Ireland. I am conscious that this debate follows on from our debate on Bus Éireann and how we invest in it. The reality for any Minister in Government is that hard choices have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the planned increase in size and number of oyster farms in County Donegal; if an environmental impact assessment has been carried out; the local consultation that has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5066/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Speaking at the launch of the national planning framework, the Taoiseach stated that planning would be all about community and bringing the community with us. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, promised a new marine strategy. I understand the Minister recently approved applications for a large number of new aquaculture licences in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I cannot believe the Minister did not ask for an environmental impact statement on this occasion. In my constituency, a pedestrian zone proposed for College Green required an environmental impact statement. The site affected in Gweedore Bay, one of 45 locations where it was decided an environmental impact statement was not necessary, covers 99 acres and is the most sensitive and beautiful...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Minister that the system is deeply flawed and has been so for years. I have seen aquaculture licensing which beggars belief in terms of what was allowed to happen. As the Minister said, the process is not working for anyone. This community is not opposed to the development of oyster farming in the area, rather it is opposed to the scale of the proposed development without...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We are talking about a 99 acre site.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the action he will take to mitigate harm caused by supertrawlers on fishing communities in view of a recent documentary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5067/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There must be an election on somewhere.

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for awarding the ObSERVE programme; the way in which its aim of surveying cetaceans such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises and sea birds offshore aligns with the programme's aim of supporting the sustainable development of the oil and gas industry; and the basis on which this programme was awarded a...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is it the Government's intention to save the whale in the North Atlantic or to save the oil and gas industry? The Department has commissioned the ObSERVE programme with significant funding of €2.7 million to monitor the presence of whales, dolphins and sea birds in the area. Is that done with the intention of excluding areas from exploration or from seismic testing, which is known to...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I take it from the Minister of State's answer that this measure is about developing the oil and gas exploration industry. There is a certain irony for those interested in the whole protection of nature that the very industry causing such damage, changing the North Atlantic, altering the feeding patterns and causing immediate harm to these creatures due to the exploration work, is now being...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am concerned for several reasons. First of all we must leave four fifths of the fossil fuels underground. I am concerned that the only investments being made by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment are in fossil fuel scholarships rather than clean energy scholarships and that it is measuring nature so that those industries can go out and help to destroy nature....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason his Department is offering MSc scholarship opportunities in petroleum-related courses in view of the fact his Department's statement of strategy declares one of its objectives is to pursue and achieve transition to a low carbon, climate resilient and environmentally sustainable economy, underpinned by a secure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is still planning to reach the target of 4,000 refugees taken under the Irish refugee protection programme by September 2017. [5490/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if adequate temporary accommodation has been sourced to facilitate the remainder of the 4,000 refugee target before September 2017. [5491/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when and the way in which post-September 2017 targets will be set at an Irish level and at the European level with regard to the refugee protection programme. [5527/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Elections (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to initiate a new boundary commission for local election wards; the proposed terms of reference; if it will consider increasing or decreasing the total number of seats in each local authority; if it will consider reducing the geographic size of wards; if it will consider reducing the number of seats...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Banking Sector (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 365. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received a submission from an organisation (details supplied) requesting that her Department establish a working group to investigate the establishment of a local public banking network here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 390. To ask the Minister for Health further to the Topical Issue debate of 7 December 2016, if he will provide the timeline mentioned in the debate. [5526/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bioenergy Strategy (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 562. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the draft bioenergy plan and the strategic environmental assessment of the plan will be put to public consultation; and the reason for the delay in this process. [5464/17]