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Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We came from across the mountains and had the exact same upbringing but it still makes sense to take this new direction.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: They were all depressingly inadequate.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I second Deputy Ó Snodaigh's proposed amendment. It achieves exactly what Deputy Howlin is saying. In voting on this amendment, we are not voting on the actual issue of whether we should join. We are voting on whether we should have proper debate on it. Whatever their view on the issue, it would be a missed opportunity if parties refused the opportunity of debate. I heard the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the timeframe and scope for the inquiry to be carried out by a person (details supplied) on the Department of Justice and Equality. [51716/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for missing the presentation. If there is a written one, I am sure I will get the document. I want to ask about one specific matter, namely, a recent IMF technical assistance report on public expenditure in Ireland. I do not know whether the IFAC was involved. The report has a range of recommendations. The worry is that it has identified an efficiency gap in the Irish...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I share Mr. Coffey's concerns, including on the motorway programme. The motorway programme was always going to involve a massive over-investment. We were building motorways with a capacity of 80,000 vehicles per day when we knew we would never have more than 5,000 to 10,000 on them per day. I was always bewildered by how the Department of Finance could throw money at that. My concern is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have one other question on that. Regarding the review of the public spending code, I have been asking the Minister for Finance recently the price of carbon he uses in multi-criteria analysis. I was shocked to hear he is using a price of €7 per tonne, or whatever the current emissions trading system, ETS, price is. I understand the European Investment Bank uses a price of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We do. We have carbon emissions that are among the highest in the world per capita, and the rate is rising at speed across all sectors. Nothing in our public capital planning framework is doing anything to address it. The council has mentioned this issue in the past. Has it done any further work on how we price carbon? The Minister for Finance effectively asked for help when I asked my...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: My concern is wider in that we are investing in infrastructure that will not be fit for the future. Everything is changing. The Paris Agreement commits us to decarbonising our energy and transport systems. If we continue with inappropriate investment decisions now, not only will we face fines for failure to comply but we will face having the wrong infrastructure and effectively the wrong...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Why is that we have to join by 11 December? The Minister of State mentioned the example of Portugal whose parliament has not signed off and will not do so by 11 December.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: He said it was joining pending approval by the parliament. The Minister of State keeps referring to the provisions of the Lisbon treaty. That allows us, as I understand, to join whenever we want. I have been looking to find where it says we must join by a certain date or we will be locked out but I found nothing. One of the real concerns today is that this is being rushed. The public...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Does that stop us joining later?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The first time I became aware of this was after the meeting between the Taoiseach and the French President, Mr. Macron. It was mentioned in the reporting after the meeting that this issue had been raised but that the French President recognised domestic Irish political difficulties in the Dáil. When it was finally raised by the Minister of State, we started asking questions about...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party is opposed to Ireland's entry into PESCO. It runs contrary to Ireland's tradition as a neutral non-aligned country and it will not serve our people or armed forces well in the great work that the latter have done representing us in peace missions overseas. We regret that the process by which approval is being sought - at incredibly short notice and without proper debate or...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of order, as I understand it, we are here to discuss the transition statement given that, as is set out in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, there is a requirement for the Government to present a report each year. We are debating it tonight but I was told today, when I asked the Department where that statement was, that we would have it tomorrow. It should...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a further point of order, we have not heard from the Minister, Deputy Naughten, about how we can debate a transition statement when we do not have it. We do not have the written statement from the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Doyle, either. This is making a mockery of the climate Act. It is not a proper reflection on the Dáil that...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Why are we debating it on a Thursday?

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Costa Rica.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Climate change is a difficult issue in a range of ways. It is difficult because of the scale of the challenge and also because the scale of the change is so immense that we speak of the issue in terms of a geological timeframe, although we are speeding it up. People joked and laughed at the then President Obama when he said he wanted to stop the seas rising but that is what we have to do...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is cheaper. The cost of onshore wind, the cost of solar and even the cost of offshore wind has come right down.