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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Brexit is a centre stage at the moment. The visit of our negotiator, Mr. Michel Barnier, two weeks ago left me even more concerned. I can hear the water tumbling over the cliff edge. It is no secret that Mr. Barnier indicated there would be great flexibility in the movement of people. What I heard in the visit and subsequently is that there would be no flexibility in regard to services and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The negotiations could crash this summer.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What happens in those circumstances? If Mr. Davis is correct, if the British do not agree the sequencing of the talks one could see a situation where the British decide to exit the talks straight away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will Mr. Fahy comment on the costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the presentation very much. On the auctioning of the 3.6 GHz spectrum, how many underbidders were there? Can the witnesses give us details as to how many of them there were and who they were? Mr. Fahy is shaking his head.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Were there any other underbidders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Could I use a freedom of information request? How do I find that out? How do we assess whether ComReg got a good price if I do not know whether there was another bidder?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is true. We are interested in public assets. Our job is to make sure that we get a good return for any public assets. That is important. I put the question because one when looks at the process, four of the existing players are continuing to operate and there is one new player. I do not know what spectrum Airspan holds. I was frantically trying to check on my own 4G service. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am just making the point that I do not see any new big operator. Perhaps there is not one. Perhaps three operators and Imagine are all we are going to get. I might pursue other means to get this information because it seems that we cannot get details on whether there were underbidders. It is important. I have just come out of a meeting of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am slightly concerned because I expected the answer to be a ringing yes, because a regulator's job is to ensure competition in the market. In a sense Mr. Fahy has raised real concerns that we do not. I might mark that because if we do not have competition that is an issue. When I was looking at the investment figures, somewhere in our pile of data, we invested something like €3...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: If I may I will ask a short sharp question. Are we setting any of the 3.6 GHz spectrum, or indeed the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum, aside for innovative testing? I remember in the past-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We have not set aside any of the 3.6 GHz spectrum for innovative testing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a second question with regard to competition, I was interested in ComReg's involvement in the bidding process for the national broadband plan. Which of the three bidders is selected must be the ultimate question of competition. I know it will be divided into two parts of the country. I am particularly interested in that question because the latest digital economy and society index shows...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The European Commission recently produced a survey relating to the digital economy and society index. It concluded that we are 24th in Europe when it comes to digital skills. Who is responsible in the State for the development of digital skills? Why are we 24th out of 28 countries in terms of digital skills? Do our guests agree that this is probably important? We always concentrate on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Whose job is it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: This day six months ago, we introduced legislation here for a directly-elected mayor of Dublin. Fianna Fáil had a similar Bill on the same issue but we reached agreement with the Minister for Housing, Planning ,Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, that we would defer the Bills for consultation. In the subsequent six months, there has been no consultation whatsoever. I have...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (24 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: For the environmental movement, this is an historic day and an historic Bill because what we are doing is not insignificant. This legislation makes a significant statement, so significant that Deputy Mick Wallace's phone is celebrating. It is significant for local communities, particularly in counties Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo and Clare, but also because it makes a wider statement about our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of boys and girls respectively who study home economics at junior certificate level; and if he will consider making the subject compulsory at that level. [24725/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with MEPs (24 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I watched proceedings on a screen upstairs. I wish to mention one concern, on behalf of the Green Party. I disagree with Deputy Durkan's belief because there are differing views. Ireland is really concerned about Brexit. The visit by Michel Barnier here two weeks ago deepened my concern. I firmly believe a clear message has been given that the free movement of people on our island would...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What is most frightening, worrying, alarming and shocking is the basic lack of competence that has been revealed in this case. Given that the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has ultimate responsibility for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the Minister and her officials have questions to answer. How did we end up with an agency that was not competent to do...