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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will press the amendment and return to it on Report Stage. I will liaise with the Minister's officials with regard to his suggestions. I will press this and my other amendments. I have tabled a priority question to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and must go to the Chamber to ask it. I hope to return later.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is that because the GSI presents the original information?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would still argue that the EPA is the agency with responsibility for measuring environmental risk or scientific assessment of interaction between scientific information and the health effect on others.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 9, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:“(c) in paragraph (h) by the insertion of “and the Oireachtas” after “as appropriate”. Unfortunately I have to attend in the Chamber. I will return to my amendments on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate that.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The number of cases being taken against the State increased from 6,000 in 2011 to 8,600 in 2016, which are the latest figures we have, and the compensation paid out increased by 20% in the last year for which we have figures. Almost 90%, the vast majority, of the State claims and compensation are in this area of health and childcare, through Tusla and the HSE. Does the Government have any...

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Would the Minister think about it?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We owe it to Vicky Phelan, her family and her courage and honesty to correctly set up a means through which to find out what happened, who was responsible, and how we can avoid it happening again. I have listened to various views expressed in that regard. I have a concern about the view that we should opt for a commission of inquiry because all Members know that in spite of constant...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister intimated in a response to Deputy Kelly that he is moving to thinking that we would need a wider commission of investigation or inquiry. Does he think that would work best in conjunction with the HIQA inquiry or following it? What type of vehicle does he think would be most appropriate for that type of investigation?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It appears that there is no difference between the number of false negatives or positives among those smear tests done in the US centres versus Irish centres. The point was made yesterday that the US one-year testing system is different from our three-year system. Does the Minister believe that is of consequence up to now, or to the quality of screening we were using?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister rightly said that shocking notes had been left on the files of those 162 cases where patients had not been informed. Has he had a chance to read the 46 where patients were informed? What characterised the different approaches, whereby a limited number of patients were given the history of the audit as against the 162 who were not? Is there any trend or pattern as to why some...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the administrative cost of means-testing each social welfare payment which is subject to means-testing in 2016 and 2017; the cost of administering all non-means tested social welfare payments in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19117/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the presentation. I may have got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning such that the witnesses should take what I am about to say with that caveat. I love the Irish Civil Service. If I was advising my children on their career options, I would tell them to into the public service or the Civil Service because young people can avail of major opportunities and learn a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: May I speak briefly?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would like the officials to be more ambitious and more wide-ranging. They should be measuring what we have stopped doing as well as what we have started. They should review the strategic decisions to actually change expenditure. That is just one example. I am asking them to come back with much more creative, imaginative details and not just a statistical checklist for each Department....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (3 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount his Department is projected to spend in each quarter of 2018 in local authority builds, approved housing body builds and acquisitions units under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, in tabular form. [19326/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the new structure of the communications unit within his Department following the completion of the review. [18891/18]

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assessment he has made of an estate (details supplied) as a suitable site for the provision of the cost-rental model of public housing; if he has met or will meet the regeneration team for the estate; and if he has studied its proposal for the provision of housing in the area. [19871/18]

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We had a useful discussion on Committee Stage about this and a very useful meeting with the Minister's officials since then. I appreciate and welcome the attention paid by the Minister and others to radon and to implementing various measures in this regard. As the Minister said on Committee Stage, six people per week are contracting fatal cancers as a result of this issue going unchecked....