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

Eamon Ryan: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps which have been taken to encourage use by local authorities of special equipment to maintain and sweep off road cycle tracks and cycleways in pursuance of policy 5.4 of the national cycle policy framework. [22354/17]

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

Eamon Ryan: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps which have been taken to ensure that local authorities provide mobile guarded bicycle parking facilities to let for special events (details supplied) in pursuance of policy 7.3 of the national cycle policy framework. [22355/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Official Engagements (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 266. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department will be represented in the Irish delegation to the meetings of the UNFCCC SBI and SBSTA in Bonn in May 2017; and if it will be attending the side events on greening with jobs: decent work and just transition in the Paris Agreement and policy solutions for a climate friendly materials sector. [22349/17]

Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann: Sitting in Joint Committee - Exchange of views with Mr. Michel Barnier, Chief Negotiator of the Taskforce for the Preparation and Conduct of Negotiations with the United Kingdom (11 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Nous vous souhaitons bonne chance dans votre travail. Je suis avec les Verts. I am with the all-island Green Party, proud, united, part of the European Green Party and best of mates with our Green Party colleagues in Scotland, England and Wales. We are very glad that in the first phase of these talks, Mr. Barnier has agreed that one of the three conditions we have to work on is the border...

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: As we speak, the Minister for Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, is meeting councillors from Dublin City Council on the issue of the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ, which is a huge site that is very important to the development of housing in this city.

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The city manager said last week that it is clear there could not be anything more than 10% social housing on the site because that was the legislative limit set. Is it considering or how would the Government introduce a raising of that legislative limit for other sites also but particularly for this SDZ site on which it is vital we have social housing in an area where the likes of Google,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action will take place. [20727/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the National Economic and Social Council will take place. [21883/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Naval Service (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 35. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the development of naval capabilities, including increasing the role of the Naval Service in fisheries protection and monitoring Irish waters after Brexit. [23587/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Naval Service (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I tabled this question to think big, look outward and look into the future as to what is the vision of the Minister of State for the development of the Naval Service. From my perspective, the north Atlantic is our largest area. Our sea area is ten times our land area. The north Atlantic is changing because of climate change and overfishing. We need to survey, monitor and manage the north...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Naval Service (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for the response and I appreciate it. I do not know whether it is the Minister, Deputy Coveney, or which of the Minister of State's colleagues is responsible for managing the marine protection areas which we are looking to develop. I believe we are responsible for approximately 1 million sq. km of sea area, so let us take 200,000 sq. km, which is what we would...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Naval Service (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Those vessels are very welcome, and the investment programme in 2012 was not a small investment given the economic situation at the time. However, I am looking for the Minister of State to join with his ministerial colleagues in setting a big ambition of very large-scale marine conservation. My understanding from talking to naval officers and others is that the current system is very hard...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Naval Service (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am sorry. The Minister, Deputy Creed, yes.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is important to try to get to the bottom of this story. We need to find out whether it is true. If it is true, we must find out who the people involved are. I take Deputy Clare Daly's point that this should not just be about the political system. We have this example. I was interested to listen to what the Taoiseach said yesterday when this matter was raised in the Dáil. My...

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have the highest regard for Ms Justice Marie Baker. Will the Minister indicate when the judge was informed by the Garda - as was implied by the Minister today - of concerns about this particular reported case? In responding to that incident, will the Minister outline if the judge will report directly to the Taoiseach, as is normal, or will she also report the Minister for Justice and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I, too, regret the fact that the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, is not present. I have nothing against the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, but on Committee Stage we had a very good and quite lengthy discussion with the Minister. It would have been useful to have had a continuation of it because some of the Government's amendments are in response to amendments tabled on Committee...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On that first key issue about our interaction with the Aarhus Convention, if I heard the Minister correctly, we do not bring it into our own legislation; it is in effect a European jurisdiction. I question that. There is a number of other instances where I will be looking to bring European Union directives into our legislation directly but as a convention which we have signed up to, I...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the chance, during the discussion on these amendments, to consider the real heart of this Bill and where it has come from, namely, the Mahon tribunal, as Deputy Wallace pointed out. That tribunal was not without its flaws. It is interesting to note, many years later, that many of the findings against individuals had to be withdrawn because the process itself was flawed. That...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is an interesting debate and maybe it divides along who has been in government, as it may change the perspective. Once a person has been in government, perhaps he or she is part of the establishment and in a sense such people may not question that bodies are trying to do the best thing and want to take on responsibility. It is also true in that there is a permanent government, which is...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to reinforce the point in support of the amendment. The key argument is we must put land use, transport and housing together. I want to draw from personal experience, going back to the formulation of transport plans for Dublin as far back as the late 1990s, when A Platform for Change was the transport plan which developed. It was based on very good planning work and there was an...