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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Provision (7 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 793. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the provision of a velodrome at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown; if funding has been identified for this; if a timeframe is in place to deliver it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11843/17]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: This is a difficult issue to speak about. This week has been a very difficult time. The mirror is showing us how we did not care for children, did not want certain children and let them die and that we did not provide due care for this child, this young adult, this person, Grace. It reflects badly on all of us and our society. We have an obligation to try to do our best to make sure the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with EU officials in Brussels on 2 March 2017. [11784/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to ask about the future of Europe and the Taoiseach's discussions in that regard, particularly at the meeting on 2 March. The European Commission has set out five options for the future of Europe. These include: carrying on; having nothing but the Single Market; those who to do so doing more; doing less more efficiently; or doing much more together. Has the Taoiseach had any sense...

European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad to be able to make several comments in advance of the European Council meeting at this historic time when we are coming up to the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome and our nearest neighbour and closest colleague in the European Union is about to exit it. It will be seen as a historic mistake because we live in a world where increased solidarity, not just in the Union...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I was at a meeting of the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform earlier. There is agreement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to employ advisers to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, which is good. The Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform recognised that it will take us several months to do that. In the interim, do we do any mechanism to bring them in?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have to run so I appreciate Deputy Burton allowing me in. I had to attend statements in the Dáil earlier so I missed the latter half of the presentation. If I recall correctly, Mr. O'Kelly indicated in the written presentation supplied in advance of today's committee meeting that PPP fund lending is €4.6 billion. IBEC is lobbying for another big tranche of PPPs for road...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: So it is accurate.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is twice the rate.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The full capital cost does not sit on the borrowing figures.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What is the figure when it starts to have a material effect?

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Our history shows that unfortunately we have always engaged in infanticide or left unwanted babies and children to die of neglect. Ordnance Survey maps of the island show lisín cemeteries for babies abandoned or killed. This is not just an Irish phenomenon. If one reads Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens one sees similar organisations set up to deal with that reality and the same...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Tánaiste give us her assessment of a detailed timeline of when we will hold a referendum regarding the repeal of the eighth amendment to the Constitution? I have seen quotes attributed to the Tánaiste, and I hope I do quote her incorrectly, that I agree with. The Tánaiste said "the Constitution is not the place to resolve complex issues like this". She went on to...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will not get into an argument today about the Bill before the House, save to note that while I respect the Tánaiste's view, I have a similar competing view that a 14-year sentence is not appropriate in our Statute Book. I will put that matter aside. The Tánaiste's party has a particular responsibility in this issue given that it was her party that introduced the original...

Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On behalf of the Green Party, North and South, I extend our commiseration to all those affected by the loss of life in recent days but especially to the family of Martin McGuinness and to his colleagues in Sinn Féin. My colleague, Steven Agnew said today that Martin "brought great gravitas to the Executive Office but also managed to stay true to his down to earth nature." That is...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The programme for Government promises to set up a national climate change dialogue. I note the Minister has said he is starting one but no one has announced who the steering group or the chairperson of that group would be. If the Taoiseach cannot do so here today, could he indicate whether he has discussed it in Cabinet, has he set up that steering group, has he set a chair and if not,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Theresa May at the EU summit held on 9 March 2017. [13923/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have one key question in regard to the meeting with Prime Minister May and the role of this House. What is the role of this House when it comes to the final deal? The Prime Minister has been under huge pressure in terms of whether she would cede any vote or any call on it to the House of Commons or the House of Lords. When it comes to the end, and if, as Deputy Howlin or others have said...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will we have a vote before the final deal is signed off on?

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What about Syriza?