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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 2141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the monthly totals of housing units for which local authorities have received planning permission commencement notices in each of the past 12 months, by local authority, in tabular form. [26603/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 2142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the monthly totals of housing units for which local authorities have received certificates of compliance on completion in each of the past 12 months, by local authority, in tabular form. [26604/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 2218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if any former Members have been appointed to State boards under his remit by the Public Appointments Service; if so, the names and positions of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28214/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Appointments to State Boards (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 2289. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any former Members have been appointed to State boards under his remit by the Public Appointments Service; if so, the names and positions of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28212/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the chance to get the witnesses' advice. I will make a couple of comments first. Mr. Coffey made a good point about the question of how to compare one country with another. An interesting experiment - a survey unlike any other - is under way currently. With Brexit, everyone is leaving London, but people are not coming to Dublin. As much as we would like them to, they will...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is a problem with economics; it does not think far enough into the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with a lot of what Deputy Dooley said. I believe we should concentrate on the electric vehicle issue. While there are also big issues in the gas network and biofuels areas, we need to concentrate our focus in this regard. Deputy Dooley is correct that there is no one in charge. This is incredible at a time when other countries are ramping up ambition. The German target is to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: They went up by 5% last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Ms Bean put it well in the sense that it is not just her Department that has this attitude about whether we should be leaders. I find that incredible in a country that is falling behind on climate change. That attitude, unfortunately, is apparent in most Departments. The core of the problem is a lack of ambition. This is also the case in the ESRI and the ESB. The ESB made a presentation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have a concluding comment. This is a useful process. I have looked at the transport budget and my understanding is we are spending approximately 80% of our budget on new roads. When we look at this into the future, we can see that the motor industry will completely change. There will not only be low-emission vehicles, there will be fewer vehicles. Perhaps that is not easy for the SIMI...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Oversight of Commission for Energy Regulation: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am going to make some general comments on the nature of the regulatory function. The key output of our meeting this evening is to engage ourselves in this OECD review process of CER. The first point to make is that the OECD is in a certain state of chassis itself. It should be slow in telling any country what to do when one of its leading members, the American Government, is now a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Oversight of Commission for Energy Regulation: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: How can the CER calculate what the net reduction in general prices may have been because of the marginal cost of renewables? Can some matching-off be done in terms of the net consequences or cost to the consumer?

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I hope I am not about to reveal what was said in a private conversation, but as it has been done already during Leaders' Questions, perhaps it encourages me to do so. During the interregnum I was walking around St. Stephen's Green and who did I meet but the Minister for Finance who was walking the other way. We stopped to have a chat, as one does. We talked about social partnership,...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: He characterises it as the seduction of a mythical past that prevents us from thinking about possible futures.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: He says it is led, in President Trump, by a nationalist who encourages us to be our worst and then tells us we are the best. It is the antithesis of a patriot who wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best. I raise this issue because I understand the Taoiseach has taken on an historian as his speech writer. The book is all about understanding and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I understand it is difficult diplomatically to rescind an invitation and perhaps this might go the way of the United Kingdom's which the American President said he would not take up because there would be protests. There will be protests here if he comes and perhaps he might make the same decision not to come. It would be a deeply divisive moment because he stands for values against which...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I second that call. I want to add specifically that the Taoiseach should talk to the Greek Prime Minister at the European Council. Our understanding is that it is Greek opposition to having European monitoring of the case which is stopping it. We need the European monitor there on 4 July to put on the pressure to get him out. Will the Taoiseach specifically bring this up with the Greek...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Start as you mean to go on.

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: If we have two questions, do we get two minutes?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the most recent discussions he has had with the British Prime Minister regarding the sequencing of Brexit negotiation talks. [25653/17]