Results 7,661-7,680 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 5: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...
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: If the amendment relates to the review, is the Minister agreeing to introduce "terminal dues" in his amendment No. 4, to which these amendments refer? Will the Minister of State confirm that the review is similar to the review I sought in amendment No. 5? The amendment is technical and I have no problem with it. It is a very similar review of the terminal dues, which is very welcome.
- Minerals Development Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I will not take long. If the Deputy wants to follow me, it should not be a long delay. I join the other Deputies in commending the officials for getting this Bill into the Dáil, hopefully to be enacted in a reasonably short period of time. It has been over ten years in preparation. In my time as Minister in the former Department, I remember having a series of meeting with officials....
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Noise Pollution (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has considered new regulatory measures to deal with domestically produced noise pollutions such as dogs barking constantly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9081/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the importance of Ireland's hedgerow in the payments system under the Common Agricultural Policy, especially in view of Ireland's low level of forest coverage; his further views on the climate mitigation effects of Ireland's hedgerows and their importance in meeting Ireland's EU and Paris agreement targets; the way the proposed...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Section 12(8) of the NAMA legislation allows for that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: The legislation was written with that in mind. It was specifically intended and the legislation allows for it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I am sorry I was not present earlier. I had to put a question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and I will have to leave again soon. We do a great deal of multi-tasking here. I wish to pick up on the question asked by Deputy Burton relating to the national planning framework. The committee received a submission from the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, IBEC, on 8...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Whatever about Kilkenny and the other cities we need to develop, Dublin will not have any big public transport projects for ten years. There is no budget for the interim solution for providing for bus, cycle and walkways. There are no plans for Galway, Cork or Limerick. There are no plans for Kilkenny other than to build more roads in the city centre. We are in a bit of a crisis on the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: It has to be a just transition.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework (23 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which he and his Department will ensure that the Departments of Health, Education and Skills, Transport, Tourism and Sport and Finance comply with and work within the national planning framework. [9024/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework (23 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the role his Department will have in the roll out of the national planning framework. [8779/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any capital funding streams for the provision of new public CCTV systems; if there are any current funding streams to assist gardaí with the monitoring of such systems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9174/17]
- Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: It dates back to Brehon law.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (28 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to terminate the Irish refugee protection programme once the September 2015 commitment to take 4,000 persons has been met. [9576/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (28 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of the recent European Financial Forum in Dublin Castle; and the role his Department is taking in relation to the attraction of new financial service companies here. [4169/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (28 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 750. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason fossil fuel heating systems are continuing to be promoted with grants of up to 50% by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland through their home and community energy efficiency grant programmes, Better Energy Homes and Better Energy Communities, while there is no additional support or incentive to install...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals and Impact of Brexit on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Apologies for being late as I was at a national planning forum event that ran late. I have read the presentations and I have a few short questions. When I read the ESB approach, and I would be interested to hear anyone else's view on it, effectively we are talking about 100% decarbonisation of our energy system by 2050. Decarbonisation is what is what I read into it. There are transport...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals and Impact of Brexit on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Lawlor think that by 2050, we will be running 50% of our system in traditional baseload or peaking or other?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals and Impact of Brexit on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Typified inertia.