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

Eamon Ryan: I have to get out of here.

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

Eamon Ryan: Many OECD and European Union policies are all about labour activation and getting as many people as possible in work to stop migration. Such policies have knock-on social consequences that we should not ignore. That objective is what drives OECD and EU policies and we should be careful.

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

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: At the informal energy council in Sofia today, the Swedish, Austrian, Danish, Portuguese and other governments indicated that they want to increase the level of ambition for renewable energy in Europe as part of the 2030 package. Given our huge renewable resources, has the Government considered joining that pro-climate action club, considering our own energy ambition for renewables? Will it...

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is done. It is finished.

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As several Members said, this Saturday people throughout the country will be engaging in a campaign - the Sick of Plastic campaign - to call for a change in how we use plastic. It will be led by Friends of the Earth and supported by VOICE Ireland. It will ask people to shop and drop, or to leave their plastic packaging at the shop as a statement of intent in where we need to go. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (19 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procurement process for arranging flights to transport deportees from Ireland to their country of origin; and the airlines and travel agencies involved in transporting deportees. [17168/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The last point is an important and welcome one. We are now on the path to legislating for this. Given we are on Committee Stage and given the numbers of Members who supported it on Second Stage in the Dáil, it means we will legislate for this. It is a real achievement by Deputy Pringle, Trócaire and others. My compulsion is that we get it right. It is a complicated process and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: UN Conventions (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Ireland's third biennial report to the UNFCCC was three months late. [18100/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Citizens Assembly (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to respond to the Citizens' Assembly report on climate; and if he will seek to establish a similar committee to the one established in view of the Citizens' Assembly report on the eighth amendment to the Constitution. [18102/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that 67% of all new housing being built has fossil fuel-based heating systems; and the measures he will take to reduce this in view of the Paris climate commitments. [18101/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. I will continue with the aforementioned graph because it tells us a great deal. First, it shows that one can reduce emissions. Reducing emissions plummeted from 2008 to 2011. We were on our way to our targets. What happened between 2008 and 2011? Half of the cause was the recession but I remember the EPA analysis published in 2012 suggested that half of the reduction was because of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: An EPA statement in 2012 outlined that half of the reduction between 2008 and 2011 was due to the economic recession and the other half was due to political commitment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The cycling budget in Dublin was halved last year. The OECD recommends we should spend 20% of our transport budget on active travel measures. We are spending 1% or 2%. That is the reality of what is happening today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Those countries want a higher EU renewables target. Do we agree with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: This might not be possible now but it might be something the EPA might come back on. I refer to its report of April 2017. It estimated that the commercial and public services sector would see an increase, with all of the additional measures, of 19.6% in emissions between 2020 and 2035. Can the EPA break that down between the public services sector and the commercial sector? I do not doubt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No, that is in the energy side. I presume that is mainly offices.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is the Taoiseach considering amending the Cabinet handbook in respect of the issue of judicial appointments? While legislation is going through the Dáil process at present, one reads in the newspapers today of a further row, in which the Minister for Justice and Equality is saying he has the authority to propose the appointment of judges and that there can be no veto on appointments....

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was happy to yield to Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and listen to him. His question about what kind of place young people will want to live in is valid. It is the key question for all those in terms of what we are doing in the Dáil. It is as much an issue for urban Deputies as it is for rural Deputies. Politics is central to answering that question and getting it right, both in rural...