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Other Questions: Tax Collection (24 Oct 2017)

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Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the chance to comment on this amazingly critical issue within the European Union for the people of Catalonia and Spain. We must be careful in terms of giving advice and taking sides because of the details, complexity and compassion on various sides of the argument in Catalonia and Spain. If outsiders were discussing our future sovereignty or the management of our constitutional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 228. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding was recently cut from an organisation (details supplied); the measures he is taking to tackle low breastfeeding rates here compared to the US, UK and Australia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44646/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I echo the previous three Deputies who have raised the problem we have in that we are identifying climate as a risk but any assessment of our response to it in either mitigation or adoption is not being taken seriously. I echo the calls for further debate in that regard. I will suggest one other area which is missing from the document. The definition of risk, timescales and so on is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of his meeting with Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. [43766/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will be brief because the Taoiseach and I seem to agree with Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister. What does the Taoiseach see as the purpose of the British-Irish Council at this stage? Given the fundamental differences between the Scottish Administration and London on Brexit and the fact that members of the Northern Assembly will not be present, what is the purpose and expected...

Other Questions: Private Schools (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that offer the international baccalaureate; and his views on more schools offering the qualification. [45032/17]

Other Questions: Private Schools (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is the Minister considering increasing the number of schools that offer the international baccalaureate? There is a call for that in some instances because, with new foreign investment here and international offices being set up, people may be looking for an international school. There is one such school in train, as I understand, and a second school is seeking a site in order to be able to...

Other Questions: Private Schools (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I understand that the Minister cannot be supporting a private system. We have need for a public system as well. However, perhaps there are ways the two could be combined whereby we could possibly co-locate. A school that has been under-utilising its facilities might be able to co-locate with a new international school to allow it be established. One of the reasons I would support such a...

Other Questions: Private Schools (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: A primary school offering an international baccalaureate programme is co-located with a public school in Synge Street. Would the Department meet the backers of that project to see if something similar might be possible at second level? It is not taking from the public system. The two working together could provide a model. That would be our own example of being connected to what is going...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (25 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made on and timeline for the implementation of junior certificate reforms. [45031/17]

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad to speak on the national planning framework. It is the most important body of work before this Oireachtas. We must get it right and learn lessons from the past. We must be bold, think big and be brave. I have been very supportive of the process and of the broad outline of what the planning framework is trying to do. I see three elements from reading the documents and being...

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Make it a region.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I very much welcome the announcement yesterday by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, that he intends to introduce a levy on the use of plastic coffee cups. This measure would achieve the same objective as one of the elements of the Waste Reduction Bill 2017, Second Stage of which was completed earlier this year. While the Minister's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Documents (7 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I was going to ask a question on the European Council but there have been enough variations on that question already so I will not avail of the opportunity. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Topical Issue Debate: Planning Guidelines (7 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am sure many Deputies, particularly those representing the constituencies of the west, are deeply concerned about the apparent failure of Apple to proceed with a data centre in Athenry, as was originally planned two or three years ago. It was held up in the planning system. I add a particular concern to the debate and put a case to the Minister. There were difficulties in the planning...

Topical Issue Debate: Planning Guidelines (7 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Apple will build a second data centre in Denmark.

Topical Issue Debate: Planning Guidelines (7 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: One of the reasons we seem to have lost this project - I hope we have not lost it but all the signs suggest we have - is that a 100% renewable power supply was required. The Minister of State cannot say that we are good in terms of meeting a zero-carbon energy demand. We are just not doing it. Denmark is doing it and that is why it is winning investment for data centres. Perhaps on the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Taoiseach said yesterday that the problem with the issue of progressing Private Members' business in this House was that we had not adopted the Dunning report. A meeting of the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform agreed that the first Dunning report was not being implemented. However, the main culprit in that regard is the Government, which, despite a request from the Parliament to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings at the European Council. [45033/17]