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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Earlier this week. I spoke with my Green Party colleagues in the North, Stephen Agnew, MLA, and Clare Bailey, MLA, who gave a harsh assessment of what is happening. They are in constant contact with various community groups and other organisations that are effectively shutting up shop because the budgetary process is continuing and they are not receiving funding. The whole mechanism of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: While the Good Friday Agreement was a huge leap forward and set a great international example, it was not without flaws. For some time, the Green Party has been calling for a constitutional convention involving ordinary citizens in Northern Ireland similar to the Citizens' Assembly. We need to recognise that a range of mechanisms in the Northern Ireland administration and assembly need to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The UK Government has just announced that it will introduce a deposit refund scheme for glass and plastic bottles and aluminium cans. We are working at the joint committee on progressing the Waste Reduction Bill, which we presented last July and which reached Second Stage at that time. It is slowly coming to its end and I am confident we will have the numbers in the House to support a...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Our legislation is of perfectly sufficient quality.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with President Trump. [13951/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The intervention on the planning matter was wrong for so many reasons. First, why did the Taoiseach decide to put this country on the same side as Trump? It was well known at the time that Trump had been in a ten-year war against wind farms. Taking a position on this said a lot about this country and our position. It was such a mistake, to my mind, and the process was all wrong. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The reason I bring the Ceann Comhairle into this is that the Speaker of the House of Commons said that such an invitation was not necessarily a privilege that would be easily handed out. Therefore, my question is, if President Trump does come, how do we decide whether he comes to this House?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings at the European Council. [14207/18]

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Politics sometimes boils down to yes-no questions and how one would vote on something. We are not voting on this issue of the expelling of Russian diplomats but, in effect, by setting out one's position, one has to answer in a sense here a yes-no question as to whether we support a particular measure or not. Sometimes one would seek a preferendum where one could have a variety of options...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made a request to the British Government to convene an inter-governmental conference between the British and Irish Governments in relation to Northern Ireland; and if so, the proposed agenda for such a conference. [14220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Investigations (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's position regarding the EU Ombudsman’s recommendations of 9 February 2018 to end maladministration of the documents of Council; and his views on the EU Ombudsman’s recommendations. [12791/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will expel Russian diplomats following the nerve agent attack in the United Kingdom; the information the Government has received relating to the incident; and if the Government expects a response in kind from the Russian Government to action taken. [14461/18]

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am very glad to be able to join the debate on this critical issue for our country and our people of how to get affordable housing. I listened to the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Coveney, replying on Leaders' Questions to questions on housing. At several points in his answers, he said the Government was open to new initiatives and ideas. I was screaming in my office as I watched on the...

Report on Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: There has been much discussion about new politics and whether this Dáil is working. This report is interesting in that regard because it shows that new politics can work. Parties can come together and do detailed analysis and, as Deputy Lawless said, do some really innovative stakeholder consultation and consider very complex issues. What has been done in the past year - I wish it had...

Report on Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have a point of order. I want to make this point because I may not be able to come in on the response. One of the proposals announced by the Minister today as a way of funding our broadcasting is for increased advertising minutes. This is a fundamental mistake. My children watch their television on Netflix. If we start to put more advertising on TV or radio, people will watch Netflix...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (29 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the DART underground is not included in the National Development Plan; and if the reports on which the decision was made not to include it will be provided. [14592/18]

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have two media questions for the Taoiseach. I listened here to the sweet words that were blown up to our friends in the Press Gallery about the importance of the media and how it is central to our democracy. We heard a lot of that in recent weeks. I agree with the Taoiseach. It is interesting today to note that we have the head of global policy in Facebook coming before an Oireachtas...

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Forget what?

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will happily account for my time in office if the Taoiseach answers my questions.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Taoiseach still has a minute and a half of his time left; perhaps he might use it to say something more on the issue.