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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: This issue needs to come back to the Dáil reform committee because it is serious. We had the same problem yesterday when the Taoiseach rightly said, when he had one and a half minutes to respond to four very detailed questions, that we have to look at the overrunning of time on a regular basis. It has been raised before. It cannot continue like this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his trip to the United States of America as part of his St Patrick's Day visit. [13924/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the increase in greenhouse gas emissions from transport compared to current levels that is anticipated to result from the implementation of the Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2016 to 2035 approved by his predecessor; and the way this increase in emissions, in the region with the greatest potential for modal shift to active...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made in the planning of a greenway pedestrian and cycling route between Athlone and Galway; and when he expects such a route to go to design and construction phase. [14245/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chair for allowing me to come in first. I will have to leave shortly after my questions are answered. It is a pleasure to have the officials in attendance. This is one of a series of presentations at this committee in the run-up to the budget and the wider capital review. Mr. Nolan said that a number of roads projects are ready for tender and primed for delivery. Could he...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Has TII projected the approximate levels of expenditure on roads, public transport or both over the next five to seven years? Does it have an outline business-as-usual budget figure under the existing capital plan?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Okay. I would like to make a broader point. When representatives of IBEC made a presentation before this committee, my heart sank from an environmental perspective because they seemed to want motorways and roads everywhere. It was clear to me when I looked at our national climate mitigation plan last week that we are doing nothing on the transport side for climate mitigation. Our...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have a final question. It is important for us to look at what we prioritise. We cannot make such decisions until we get some of the details. I become depressed when I hear the agencies say that we do not need to look at a Luas extension to Poolbeg because that is some way off. As a representative of that area, in a city facing a housing crisis and absolute gridlock, I believe it should...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: So TII has no funding for infrastructure for the next five years.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The NTA has not indicated any funding for public transport.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: How much will go to public transport and how much will be spent on roads in the next five years?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Nolan could send that to me afterwards. Is it possible to obtain breakdown of the numbers of staff in the TII engaged in design for new public transport projects compared with the numbers on design for roads?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full-time employee with a third level college who is due to reach the age of 65 years in March 2017 and therefore faces mandatory retirement in September 2017 will be able to agree an extension of their employment contract for an additional period; and the flexibility which exists for the extension of such public sector employment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the report of the committee to review the reports of the Cork local government committee; and when he expects to know of its recommendations. [14851/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expert advice he has sought and received in regard to the likely impact of aviation growth internationally on the achievement of the Paris Agreement temperature goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14848/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expert advice he has sought and received in regard to the likely impact of a new runway at Dublin airport on Ireland’s achievement of the Paris Agreement temperature goals, and on the achievement of the national transition object enshrined in the Act. [14849/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will issue a direction to the Dublin Airport Authority to report to him urgently on the implications of continued growth of traffic at the airport, through the building of an additional runway and otherwise, for the furtherance of the national transition objective and the achievement of the Paris Agreement temperature goals; and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There is an ongoing debate between Lorcan Sirr, a lecturer in housing, and the Department on the number of houses completed last year. The official figure is 15,000 based on ESB connections, but he argues that if one looks at building control management system completions, one gets perhaps half that number. Can the CIF give us an accurate figure? How many housing units were completed in 2016?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Where is the demand for housing? If I read the NPF correctly, it is all about going back into the centre and strengthening our towns, villages and city centres. It is about stopping the sprawl and going back to the centre. Does the CIF see that? Where are the houses that are being completed being built and what is the CIF's submission to the NPF in that regard? Will construction be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is it in city centres? Everyone abandoned Cork and evacuated to Douglas, Carrigaline and Ballincollig. The population in the city centre collapsed. The same happened in Dublin. In most of the old suburbs, population declined. Is development in Cork and Dublin going back into the real city centres or is it still out around ring roads on the outskirts?