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Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The cars are becoming cheaper too. The fuel costs are one fifth of an oil-fired car, and the maintenance costs are a fraction too because there are fewer moving parts. That is the reality of what has happened. We need to wake up to it. We need to invest in public transport and do what the Citizens' Assembly said. The Citizens' Assembly's work was superb in terms of saying the...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: -----and the Minister of State, Deputy Doyle. The Minister of State knows Europe is changing on this. He knows the future payments in CAP will go for those who protect biodiversity, who store carbon and who help us protect water supplies. Let us go for it. Let us not see this as a rural-urban divide because it is not so. The only way this will work for us as a country, if we are to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given direction to Dublin City Council as to which arrangements could be considered optimal in the provision of affordable housing after the finalisation of the commercial agreement for the Poolbeg SDZ. [52263/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Properties (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has included lands currently administered by the Department of Defence in his review of publicly owned land that could be utilised for housing; and if he has had discussions with the Minister for Defence in relation to the long term optimal use of these sites. [52262/17]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I regret that I stand with a different view to my neighbours in the rural alliance. I hope they will not mind if I take 20 minutes to explain exactly why it is that I am supporting the Minister on this occasion.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I would prefer if that was struck off the record.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad that the Minister is here to hear my support. Unfortunately, he had to run out the door at the last minute when I was speaking on the climate Bill last night, so it is great to have a chance to impart some of my views to him in his full presence. Much as I have listened to the arguments made by Deputy Healy-Rae and others, I support the Minister on this initiative. Sometimes...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There is nothing happening. There is not a single rail-based public transport project ready to go to tender.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We kept the metro project in the four-year plan.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The then Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, now Taoiseach, got rid of it. It was to be funded by the European Investment Bank and ready to go. We would have had it for half the price we will have to pay in four or five years' time. It was ideology in Fine Gael's case because it does not believe in public transport.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It prefers the car-based, individualised system. That is what I see.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I understand what my rural colleagues are saying when they talk about the difficulty posed by rural isolation. There is no doubting that it is an issue. In introducing these measures we have to listen to what they are saying and recognise that we have a real problem, particularly in the case of older people and those who do not have huge social outlets. We have to consider how we will...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of information, last week's business involved statements on the transition statement relating to climate change late at night on Thursday evening. Fine; the only problem is that we did not get the statement until Friday afternoon. It shows a disrespect for the issue and for this House and should be noted.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: At the weekend there was welcome news that the Government is considering introducing a directly elected mayor for Dublin and Cork. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether he has made a call on that today at the Cabinet meeting? If so, does he believe there will be a plebiscite to approve it? What sort of powers will the mayor have? What changes will there be in regional authorities? Would he...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (12 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 74. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the process by which the Government decided to join PESCO. [51717/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am conscious that the witnesses were not involved in discussions on the possibility of the broadcasting charge being collected by Revenue but are they aware of any restriction to such a charge being collected by Revenue rather than An Post? During consideration of this issue by the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, of which I am a member, reference was...

Living Cities Bill 2017: First Stage (13 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Derelict Sites Act 1990 to increase the levy placed on derelict sites; to ensure the register of derelict sites compiled by a local authority is made publicly available on the local authority's website; to ensure protection for the rights of homeowners who have moved into residential care and own a derelict site; to...

Living Cities Bill 2017: First Stage (13 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (13 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: In looking at where we see the future of Europe and what we seek to represent, I want to ask about the area of climate ambition and energy integration. The Commission has put together a legislative programme, the clean energy package, which affects governance, market rules, shared ambition in renewables and so on. In every area the Irish Government is taking an active position to halt...

European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There is a disconnect in what we hear and read emanating from Brussels and elsewhere on PESCO. Throughout the discussions and again in the House today the Taoiseach has said it concerns issues such as cybercrime or peacekeeping training. However, what has been said by President Tusk and others leads one to believe that it is the culmination of years of aspiration for a move towards a...