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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am asking the Minister about his ambition in terms of the transport contribution to reduce climate change emissions. Everyone else is saying that they are going to expand. The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport was absent without leave at the recent formation of the national climate mitigation plan. We can see it in the plan. Large sectors are supposedly going to have plans to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The draft plan was published-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to hearing the details.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is the Minister happy that the transport projected emissions are due to increased from 27% to 29%, then to 32% and to continue rising after that? If not, what does he intend to introduce that is not in the draft plan but that might start to reverse those figures? In the process, such measures should improve our economy and free us from the €2 billion congestion costs that we face in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Of the measures the Minister mentioned and that I specifically cited are some of the projects which could be built next year. They could be included in the 2018 budget. They include projects such as a Dodder greenway, a Liffey cycle route or a Clontarf-to-the-city-centre cycle route. All those projects, which have been designed and planned for years, have no budget. If the Minister wishes...

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate congestion in Dublin within the next four years, in view of the estimated annual cost of €350 million due to delays in traffic. [22109/17]

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: My question is set in the context of the latest report, according to which the €350 million cost of traffic blockages in Dublin will increase to €2 billion unless we do something about the issue. I am keen to hear about the Minister's measures to reduce congestion. Everyone can see that, with the economy growing quickly, Dublin's traffic is like the Richter scale - when...

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That initiative will be welcome. I agree that the main response to our traffic problem must be buses and cycling and pedestrian facilities in the first instance. We have been talking about it for 20 years and I am slightly nervous that if we are just saying we are going into a consultation process, it is not real. For this to be real, there has to be a budget allocation in 2018. This has...

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am positive but I reiterate the key point that there is no point doing this consultation if it is not done at the same time that the Minister indicates the budget is there to deliver it. As I said, the problem lies at the heart of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, which historically, for many years, have had a flawed...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with the Danish and Dutch Prime Ministers and the details of any agreements made regarding a common approach to Brexit. [20416/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he has had with political leaders in Northern Ireland regarding the formation of a new administration following the recent Assembly elections. [20726/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings at the Special European Council on 29 April 2017. [20417/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's progress in implementing the national cycle policy framework; his Department's progress towards meeting the smarter travel targets; and the reason for the lack of investment in the capital investment plan. [22108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Committees (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Government will submit its fifth, sixth and seventh report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in view of the fact that it has missed the last reporting deadline by over three years. [22352/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Official Engagements (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will be represented in the Irish delegation to the UNFCCC meetings of the UNFCCC SBI and SBSTA in Bonn in May 2017 and will officials from his Department be attending the side event on scaling up green energy finance, swapping fossil fuel subsidies for sustainable energy solutions. [22351/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Mitigation Plan (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline the nature of the expertise in carbon sequestration in peatlands he is able to rely on within his Department or by means of consultancy contracts when considering whether actions relating to peatland carbon sequestration should be included in the national mitigation plan and whether to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Mitigation Plan (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline the analysis he has carried out or has access to regarding the cost effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation by means of storing and sequestering carbon in peatlands. [22347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Official Engagements (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to detail the Departments and agencies that will be represented at the UNFCCC meetings of the SBI and SBSTA in Bonn in May 2017; and the Department that will be attending the side events on global peatlands initiative and rediscovering the magnificent carbon storage potential of wetlands and peatlands. [22348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Official Engagements (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will be represented in the Irish delegation to the meetings of the UNFCCC SBI and SBSTA in Bonn in May 2017; if it will attend the side events on climate action for transport mitigation and adaptation and strengthening leadership on low carbon transport to deliver long term climate goals. [22350/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cycle Network (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government is on track to meet the objective in policy 4.1 of the national cycle policy framework that by 2020 the environment in the immediate vicinity of schools will be a safe and attractive low speed environment with speed limits strictly enforced and drop off by car within a given distance restricted. [22353/17]