Results 8,601-8,620 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: May I speak briefly to make one brief comment?
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I will not say anything contentious. If I can, I will make one point because I had not realised the time-----
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: There is but one simple thought to put to the Minister as we enter the final process. We did not vote to delay the process, but this needs to be done. I have one question to put to the Minister. The fundamental principle, in thinking 20, 30 or 40 years ahead-----
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: May I finish the sentence?
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Two wires will be put into every house. It may make sense for us to pick one of those wires, probably the electricity wire, and say it is the connection point.
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: The final decision should reflect the fact that the enet-SSE group has expertise in the provision of electricity wires. It may make sense to make a decision to go with the electricity rather than the telephone wire as a point of entry. The reasoning is simple. Why would we support the provision of two wires, two poles and two systems?
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: On a point of order-----
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: -----the Minister does not appear to oppose listening to the contributions of Deputies for the next 25 or 30 minutes, after which he could make further concluding remarks. I can think of numerous examples of the Chair, in such circumstances-----
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: 154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the tendering process for the forthcoming Kerry GYDP scheme; the process for selection; when the information will be available on all projects; if they will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7931/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: 250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the planned timeframe for delivering the East Wall-Sandycove walking and cycling infrastructure greenway. [7884/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I have oral questions to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport today, so I would like to raise one brief question, if that is in order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I apologise for intervening and I do so in case I have to leave and I do not want to come back to discover that the meeting has ended. It was useful for us to get the correspondence today on the communications between Eir and the Department. Regarding the 300,000 additional rural homes to which Eir is delivering broadband directly, I understand Eir had originally approached the Department...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Was I inaccurate in stating the previous Minister and, I presume, the Department had not agreed to a similar proposal which came from Eir in the early stages?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: That tentative agreement was to have been indicated by the Minister at his meeting in the summer of 2016 with Eir, and the Department would have known at that stage it was going to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Was in it June or July 2016 that the meeting between the Minister and Eir took place? I believe it was July.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I imagine that at the meeting on 21 July 2016 the broad approach the Department and the Minister were going to take must have been communicated because there was not a subsequent meeting between the Minister and Eir.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: If it changed after 2015, when the Department found the 300,000 houses did not fit with the new criteria, when did the Department communicate to Eir that the 300,000 houses process was within the criteria? When did the Department indicate to Eir that it had changed its position, in that it would accept the 300,000 houses in the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Eir started building it in December 2016.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: There are 120,000 recorded monuments in the country, and only 1,000 of them are owned by the State. The vast majority are not accessible and are not cared for in a proper way. Perhaps the biggest example of that is recent evidence from independent experts which has been presented to our party's Senator Grace O'Sullivan, showing the damage done to Skellig Michael in recent years. Damage has...
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Bird life.