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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is that for manufacture?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Okay. So one quarter of our manufacturing material exports are chilled, boned beef.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We have come a long way from the 1930s when we were sending live exports; now we are sending it chilled and boned. It is not just that it is the number one export, the fact that it accounts for one quarter of our product is a startling figure.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. We live in a world where I believe capital has too much power. In the negotiated position of the various factors of production, and because capital can move so fast and is so transferable, it has huge power over labour. Natural capital does not move so it is completely undermined in the current economic system that we have. Everything is designed to support the interests of capital...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will cut them down to one question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Can measures be targeted? If the capital tax rules are reduced in line with what the witnesses are suggesting and I buy shares in IBM that subsequently increase in value, I will pay a lower capital gains tax on them. Similar to Deputy Broughan's point, could there not be targeted measures for Irish exporting companies in terms of funding and so on? It would be a more specific model. I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Was our rate at the time approximately 20%?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: But it did not develop our foreign direct investment sector. I have a related question. If I earned profit on an IBM share, would I benefit just as much under this measure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What did Ms O'Brien say the measure was?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Could we not expand it?

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Deputy Jan O'Sullivan that this is an area where things keep changing. It is full of uncertainties. I commend Deputy Stanley on his Bill and I understand that his motives are right and while there are many elements of it that I support, I cannot support the Bill. I will explain in detail the reason. The one thing that is fixed is the physical atmosphere we operate in and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (21 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with the Chinese Government since assuming office. [30168/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am speaking on behalf of the Green Party, which is an all-Ireland party. I am joined by my colleague, Clare Bailey, from the Assembly in the North. We are very close to our English and Scottish colleagues and our colleagues in the European Parliament, Philippe Lamberts and others, with whom we work very closely on the European Green Party position. I am very heartened by what Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am speaking on behalf of the Green Party, which is an all-Ireland party. I am joined by my colleague, Clare Bailey, from the Assembly in the North. We are very close to our English and Scottish colleagues and our colleagues in the European Parliament, Philippe Lamberts and others, with whom we work very closely on the European Green Party position. I am very heartened by what Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am speaking on behalf of the Green Party, which is an all-Ireland party. I am joined by my colleague, Clare Bailey, from the Assembly in the North. We are very close to our English and Scottish colleagues and our colleagues in the European Parliament, Philippe Lamberts and others, with whom we work very closely on the European Green Party position. I am very heartened by what Mr....

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is three years since the previous Government set up a working group to report on the asylum process and how we could fix and change it. It is almost two and a half years since Mr. Justice Bryan McMahon came back with a series of recommendations, including one to the effect that we should allow asylum seekers who have been in the process without a decision for nine months to work. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I suggest, Acting Chairman, that we might give the Taoiseach a bit of leeway in terms of the amount of time he will have to respond because each of the issues are hugely complex and not insignificant. Could the Taoiseach report on the conversation he had with the Catholic Church in this instance in respect of the changes - announced four days ago - Education and Training Boards Ireland...

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I might come back to Deputy Healy-Rae's points but first, it is absolutely right that we are discussing flooding and what happened in Donegal this summer. We should also think outside that box and think of the people of Puerto Rico tonight. One week on from the hurricane that hit the island, there are one million people who do not have power. It is 90° there, if Members can imagine...

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am. I will finish in 30 seconds. I know the River Flesk well. I swam in it many's the day. It is a beautiful river. We need to protect the rivers in Killarney. However, the best approach is not to build anything on the historical flood plains as we have done, which was an incredible mistake; rather, it is to let the natural river systems work. If we think we can beat nature by...

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will finish on that point. I thank the Acting Chairman. I hand over to the man from Clonmel.