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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 114. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the units stationed in Cathal Brugha barracks, in tabular form. [8619/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 115. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the ownership structure of the land attached to Cathal Brugha barracks and McKee barracks; if there are leasing arrangements in regard to either facility; if so, the existing parties; and the key conditions attached to such leases. [8620/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 116. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are barracks duties in the Dublin area that soldiers from other units outside of the Dublin area must travel to in order to carry them out. [8621/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 117. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the size of the Baldonnel site in west County Dublin; and if it is possible for the Defence Forces to be relocated there from Cathal Brugha barracks. [8622/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 118. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of soldiers in transit fulfilling routine barrack duties for Cathal Brugha barracks; and the number of the 128 temporary beds identified as beds for soldiers in transit and carrying out training at this location. [8623/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is considering carrying out an overall assessment of the environmental impacts of importing LNG gas; if so, the details of the consultation process; and the mechanisms that members of the public can utilise to appeal such a process. [8618/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chairman for letting me in. There has been all sorts of business here today so I was unable to stay for the discussion, but I read with real interest and listened to the presentation from Meat Industry Ireland. I also read the two other presentations. I am very much at one with what the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association said in its presentation. It is the right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Deputy Kenny. He has hit the nail on the head. Irish farming has great attributes in that it is largely family farm-based and pasture-based. We are able to keep cattle out for much longer than in other countries. To show that it is not as intensive, I understand that the average Irish dairy cow produces approximately 5,000 litres of milk a year. In Northern Ireland, where it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Was there a split early on? There probably was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: He is running an arable farm now which is the perfect example, in my mind, of mixed farming. There is rotation, and clover and beans to restore carbon. He was saying yesterday that he was starting to grow arable crops without any insecticide and that production goes up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is where everyone needs to go, on a large scale. Smart farming and BASE farming is an opportunity. Agro-forestry, protecting biodiversity and carbon management are the green way to go, which will be the future of Irish farming. It is far more secure, it pays better and it fits into our sense of pride. We are right to have pride in our family farm-based system. It provides a really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the Chair's flexibility on this. On the efficiency point, I would have to stand up to support Alan Matthews on the tax matter which is, in a sense, about efficiency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I might be but I would stand up for the Citizens' Assembly. I think it was a brilliant exercise and I agree with his analysis. If we are not doing that, another proposal that could be followed, if we are to benefit from being more efficient than others, is that we should look, perhaps, at moving agriculture into the European emissions trading scheme, ETS, which would give us a measure of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is a pity that the national planning framework, in my mind, did not have an attached land use plan. How can we plan our country if we are not planning what we do with our land? Maybe the committee will put that to the Minister as a simple recommendation from me as a visitor to this committee. I deeply appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: They are not going to starve and will need food. There is a large population on a small island, no matter what way Brexit works out. One of my concerns is that Britain will use the opportunity of being free from the CAP system and to do its own thing to aggressively seek to have a green system. That is what the Minister in question has said he wants. We could, therefore, find ourselves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The market is not going to deliver for the Irish farmer. That is clear. That is why we have CAP. CAP is the right approach to support Irish farming. But CAP is now changing and we in the next two years have the chance to change it and we have a flexibility because it is back to the country. The reality is that if one looks at a range of sectors, not just farming, they are not commercial....

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was very hopeful and supportive of the process in terms of the national planning framework and aligning that with the national capital plan. I would have gone further and put our national climate mitigation plan together with those because I think all three should be connected. However, I have been very disheartened in the last five or six months. I was very disappointed with the draft...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is all that is moving in this city at present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: May I ask a second question at this point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: My question is for Mr. O'Rourke and if he cannot provide the information perhaps he would send me the written details. How many road projects does TII have ready to go to tender or are in the tender process? How many rail projects are ready to go to tender or are in the tender process? How many BusConnects projects are ready to go to tender or are in the tender process?