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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Regulations (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the consequences if industrial plants are found to be in breach of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. [16640/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Agency Remit (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the EPA is compelled to monitor and assess risks to health from carcinogenic dioxins that may be emitted from industrial plants. [16641/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the statutory authority under which he issued ​circular letter PL 02/20189 (details supplied). [14948/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he obtained legal advice before issuing circular letter PL 02/20189. [14949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his officials had discussions with an association (details supplied) before he issued circular letter PL 02/20189. [14950/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his officials had discussions with the law agents of planning authorities before he issued circular letter PL 02/20189. [14951/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which it came to his attention that individual planning applications made under Part 3 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, are increasingly being discussed at municipal district area committee and-or council meetings of some local authorities prior to a decision being made on the application...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Influence of Social Media on Elections and Referenda: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Ms Dixon very much for coming in. I have always had the highest regard for the Data Protection Commissioner. The commissioner has always carried out her work in the best traditions of the Irish public service and the Irish regulatory system, as did her predecessor. I agree very much with her comments that we have to follow guiding principles in terms of digital regulation and she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Acting Chairman. I thank Mr. Kaplan and Ms Sweeney. Mr. Kaplan is very welcome to Europe. This democratic republic is part of Europe. I was thinking about some of the names mentioned earlier. I am a former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and I remember sitting on the EU Council with Viviane Reding for four years. She is a formidable and powerful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have other questions but I need to ask these ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If the Acting Chairman will bear with me, I will complete my questions. The answers to the questions I have just asked can be "Yes" or "No". Why does the default setting allow for maximum exposure sharing? Why not make each setting a choice before a profile is functional? Why do privacy settings continue to focus on what friends can and cannot see? I go back to what Ms Sweeney said....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Vice Chairman, several questions were not answered but I have one question in particular about the Data Protection Commissioner. Why did the witnesses not contact the Data Protection Commission when they found out about the use of third party Kogan App, scraping friends data? Given that this had been a contentious issue between Facebook and the Data Protection Commissioner, given that the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Citizens' Assembly today published its report on climate change. Anyone who was present for its work on the issue would say it did a fantastic job. It got the best people in to give an overview of the relevant science and solutions, and came up with practical solutions in the areas of transport, agriculture and energy commensurate with the scale of the challenge we face. What does the...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I knew Peter for some time. We had been to the same school and had done the same course in university. However, like many people here I got to know him during the financial crash. It feels like a bit of a therapy session. I refer to the numbers Peter had. When it came to the financial crash and managing it, he was passionate - there are no two ways to describe it. He would engage in...

Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Countless journalists, rightly, asked the Minister a question on this issue, as did Members of this House, and on 6 December he answered the Dáil and stated: "I have not made my views known and I am not going to. I have a decision to make". I do not know what the Minister said to any of the other journalists. I presume they will check what he said at that time. Surely, however, there...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Three revolutions are taking place in the world at the moment. The first is the digital revolution, which has been happening now for several decades. In line with Moore's law, technology is operating relentlessly in increasing our capability to process data. There is also a clean energy revolution taking place. We are moving towards renewable power and allowing efficiency in a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take in relation to the requests from Dublin City Council following the receiver seeking to reduce the amount of social housing in the Poolbeg SDZ; if all materials, correspondence and records related to the Poolbeg SDZ within his Department will be released; and if he will attend Dublin City Council...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister. We received a very good presentation from our excellent budget advisory office team on the issue of rainy day funds. I cannot recall the exact details, but if I remember our discussions rightly, the key issue affecting the application was whether European rules would allow us to use funds we set aside in subsequent budgets in a proper counter-cyclical manner to give...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to comment on the first option to get everyone working and working all of the time. We are nearly at full employment. The Minister sounded like he will crack the whip and hunt people into work. We must start thinking about our economy in a different way.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister knows what I mean.