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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management, Congestion and Public Safety at College Green, Dublin: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Catherine Murphy and I soldiered together on the Dublin transport advisory committee in the mid-1990s.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management, Congestion and Public Safety at College Green, Dublin: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We have been talking about this subject since. I was very involved in the Platform for Change plan in the late 1990s and early 2000s, up to 2001. I remember with such clarity discussing the options and coming down on the metro because of the clear modelling which showed that if we did not do so, we would not be able to make the numbers work and would have bus jams on D'Olier Street, and,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management, Congestion and Public Safety at College Green, Dublin: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As difficult is the current scenario is, I would hate for us to move in a direction where cycling was banned in the city centre. That would be a disaster for the city on so many fronts. We should aim to triple those numbers again. There should be 3,000, 4,000 or 5,000 cyclists in the area if we go for it. There must be engineering solutions where, for example, cyclists coming from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management, Congestion and Public Safety at College Green, Dublin: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We already know the cross-city BRT plans for Tallaght and UCD have been agreed. How many of those are ready to go to tender?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management, Congestion and Public Safety at College Green, Dublin: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Coyne must know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management, Congestion and Public Safety at College Green, Dublin: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Coyne does not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management, Congestion and Public Safety at College Green, Dublin: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: When representatives of TII appeared before the committee, I asked them how many rail-based or bus-based projects it had ready to go to tender and the answer was zero. It has loads of road projects; we build roads with no problem. When it comes to transport projects we do not seem to be able to do it. Those projects would provide cross-city connectivity. Blanchardstown is one of them....

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We did not stick our councillors into the campaign.

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: A report in last weekend's edition of The Sunday Business Poststated that the Government intends to put to the people in a plebiscite in October the question of directly elected mayors for Cork and Dublin, which I would very much welcome. Will the Taoiseach confirm the Government intends to take that approach? Will he involve the Opposition in that regard once the Government has made a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings in Northern Ireland with British Prime Minister May and members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. [8450/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is taking time because we are dealing with two hugely significant issues in respect of Brexit and the formation of a Northern administration. They are connected in the sense both issues affect how people position themselves. We have agreed with the broad approach of the Government insisting on no hard Border and trying to minimise damage in east-west relationships. I refer also to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: People Before Profit may have that same all-Ireland approach and indeed connect with the Socialist Party in the United Kingdom.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As a way of breaking the logjam I think everybody should be brought in rather than sticking to the current players as the Taoiseach has done. I refer also to how the current players are dealt with. The criticism that the Taoiseach has alienated or, in a sense, lost contact with the DUP is not just an academic issue. If some sort of proper relationship had been maintained, the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is not working.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land owned by local authorities nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9715/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for provision of housing delivered through the cost rental model. [9714/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No, I will hear the answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise, but I was in the Chamber as I had tabled a question to the Taoiseach. I have read the presentations. I will watch the video with interest. On Mr. Bruton's final point, I attended the Bioenergy conference last week. It is absolutely clear that the industry has been completely stymied in the past four years and it looks like it will be later than 2019 before we benefit for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is there not some crossover? When there are negotiations on fines or how we are doing, will there be cognisance taken or recognition of what we do on the emission trading system, ETS sector? In terms of national security, competitiveness and economic benefits, we should not just sanitise the whole ETS sector and say it is nothing to do with us; it is some market thing. We can make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We do not have anywhere in Moneypoint to store the carbon. Extensive surveys have been conducted which showed there was nothing suitable there. We have a fleet of modern gas plants, often quite young, some of which we are now switching off because we cannot pay the capacity payments or they did not win in the bidding system. The idea of building new gas plants when we are shutting others...