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

Eamon Ryan: 563. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether, in view of the volume of complaints to ComReg regarding the activities of PRS providers, the regulatory framework governing telephone companies debiting the accounts of consumers for services of such third-party PRS providers is adequate; his further views on whether there should not be an opt-out...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 28 of Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 1.The Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 is amended in section 28:(a) in subsection (1) by the substitution of “that postal service” for "a universal postal service" where it secondly occurs, (b)...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to reply to the Minister of State to tease out the point. He is right with regard to the original provisions of the Act on providing an exclusive universal postal service. In a sense, the thinking behind it was that competition would develop and people would have choices. In truth when looking at the business there is effectively no real competition in the widespread range of postal...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will return to the amendment on Report Stage. I will not press it now.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad the Minister of State reverted to this matter, as we did not have time to discuss it. Deputy Lawless may have a similar point to the one that I am about to make. Our purpose and wordings are similar. We have been speaking to similar people with an interest in the area. The point about not removing completely the capability of ComReg to have oversight is a valid one. In some...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: To be pressed on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 3, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:" "(bc) to undertake a review of terminal dues with particular regard to the requirements of section 29(1) of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 and to report to the Minister within 6 months of the commencement of this Act. Further such reviews shall be undertaken at least every two years,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: This is an area where we believe it is possible for An Post to recover significant revenue it is losing on current arrangements. This review might be very beneficial for the company in terms of raising revenue.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is very useful and will help us to develop our argument on Report Stage. If the Minister could inform us in advance of Report Stage about ComReg's views on this matter, it would help the Report Stage debate.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will withdraw it until Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I should declare an interest in that my wife is a regular columnist in the Evening Herald, one of the INM main publications. I should say that. There is a side issue in that I have never had the sense that she has ever been under editorial control. It would not be easy to manage editorial control over the person in question, but it shows some of the good qualities and tradition of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: When was that approach made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I may have to leave the meeting shortly as I have tabled a question to the Taoiseach, which is due to be taken in the Dáil. Mr. Pitt said that INM has no interest in purchasing radio stations. Why did it look at purchasing Newstalk? What was the strategic imperative for purchasing Newstalk if now, as he says, it is not a strategic imperative?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What about my question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action will take place. [4168/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I was glad to attend the event in Maynooth.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I attended the event of the launch of the national planning framework last week in Maynooth. I agreed with much of what the Taoiseach said about the need for the State to prepare and have a vision for the future, and to start taking the technological changes that are happening and advance them, and be in the lead, and create employment, create...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Records (8 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I too raise the interests of future historians and economists. The Central Bank wrote to the Houses asking that we destroy or return all records relating to the banking inquiry. At the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, I expressed the importance that the material be kept somewhere, whether in the Central Bank or the National Archives, to guarantee that in the future when people are...

Media Ownership Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am very happy to support the Bill presented by the Social Democrats and to have the chance to consider the wider issue of media ownership in our society. The main intention of the Bill is very rational, sensible and reasonable, that is, to take into account a changing, evolving and more digital media world. In a digital world, broadcasters and publishers are acting across a whole range of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Smarter Transport (8 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason his Department's combined spend on the smarter travel sustainable transport measures-grants and the regional cities programmes decreased by 21% in 2016 and is projected to be reduced by 18% in 2017 (details supplied) in view of the fact that these programmes constitute a large portion of his Department's spend on walking and...