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

Eamon Ryan: Is that because of the cost of land?

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

Eamon Ryan: People have said that in London and elsewhere there are brilliant new building technologies and prefabrication solutions that can be brought on site very quickly. They say that the Irish construction industry is old-fashioned and has not advanced with the times. Are there any examples of cutting-edge and new technologies being put in place in house building?

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

Eamon Ryan: I was particularly interested in house building.

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

Eamon Ryan: I attended the annual conference of chartered surveyors and all of the talk there was about build to rent. It was interesting to hear the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, suggesting yesterday that there is a need to move to a cost-rental housing model of social housing. I agree. Is there any example from the CIF's perspective of a real pick up in the build to rent or cost rental...

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

Eamon Ryan: When the witnesses talk about PPPs for the next three or four years, I presume we are talking about roads. Out of the €220 million, how much was in roads funding?

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

Eamon Ryan: It is all roads.

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

Eamon Ryan: Nothing changes. We are just doing the same thing we have done for 30 years - sprawl, roads, sprawl, roads, sprawl, sprawl, sprawl.

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

Eamon Ryan: Some believe in public transport.

Northern Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On behalf of my party, I congratulate our two MLAs, Stephen Agnew and Clare Bailey, on their election to a much reduced Assembly. Holding two seats was a hugely significant and important victory for the Green Party on this island and it sends a message of hope that there is a non-sectarian view of the future which is about Ireland going green and all the benefits that would bring for...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It seems that for a long time, the key question is what might be the appropriate discount rate to apply to inform pricing in terms of assets in Northern Ireland. To a certain extent, discount rates in respect of the cost or price of capital assets in any jurisdiction depends on intangible issues that are hard to put an exact figure on. The dysfunctional political system in Northern Ireland...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Well it would in my case, Deputy McDonald. It would help tremendously because we would have the facts in an open and transparent way. I still put the case for that amendment to the NAMA legislation as one of the ways of uncovering what exactly we got on all the different deals.

Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On behalf of the Green Party I extend our sympathies to the family of Captain Duffy on their tragic loss and commend him on his heroism in the work that he and the other members of the Coast Guard have done. It was interesting watching the Garda Commissioner in the Oireachtas committee this morning, and I have a number of questions for the Minister on the Government's position. This mess...

Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I agree that we need to look at the cultural background in An Garda Síochána that allowed this to take place. We should also look at the bigger, wider structural issues in terms of what An Garda Síochána is and should be doing. However, we also have a structural problem in our Government and public administration system. When senior members of An Garda...

Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is their argument.

Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Approximately 25 years ago, Mike Curtis died on Merrion Square in Dublin. He was on his bike, was flattened and killed. A lot of us started campaigning then to try to make Dublin a cycling city. It is deeply shocking for anyone with a keen interest in cycling to look at what has happened here in the last few months. On 12 February, Ms Tonya McEvoy, a member of the Orwell Wheelers cycling...

Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister has come to the nub of it. We are spending €36 million on trying to create safe cycling spaces. We absolutely need to do this in Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Dublin. The expenditure is out of a total budget of €1.8 billion, however. Therefore, 0.02% of our overall budget is being spent on cycling. I am sorry but we need to be spending something like 10% of our...

Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We have had real success in the past 25 years with a whole range of different measures we needed to introduce. The reason we need to invest in Dublin particularly-----

Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: If I can just finish, the reason we need to invest in the cycling space in Dublin is not just for the safety issue but also to make the city work. Dublin is facing gridlock. I am on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to which various agencies and organisations come every week calling for more motorways to be built. There is no one championing investment in cycling expect for the likes of...

Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There are calls for motorways-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: British-Irish Co-operation (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has raised issues or concerns regarding Irish sovereignty in the context of foreign agents, with particular reference to British operatives involved in the incidents which have led to the Pitchford inquiry in the UK, with her counterpart; if so, the details of that discussion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8757/17]