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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Therefore, the Government formally disagrees with the Espoo Convention implementation committee's assessment that the risk, as small as it may be, of leakage or release of radioactive material from Hinkley Point is covered under the Espoo Convention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: What would be the position of the Government in any submission with regard to the draft finding? Would we agree or disagree with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: The report of the Espoo Convention implementation committee was considered at the triennial meeting of the parties to the convention last June. The Minister was not present. No Irish delegation or official was present. Why was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: This is not an inconsequential bilateral issue between the two nations involved. Indeed, a number of other countries, including Austria, Germany and Norway, are involved. This is not a small issue on a European political or diplomatic basis. Given that this draft report seems to be contested from the point of view of the Department or the Government, why did we not attend the meeting at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I take the point. I will avail of the opportunity to put this question directly to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. A complaint made by the Friends of the Irish Environment, an NGO that has consistently been raising this issue, was accepted by the international organisation that is in place to oversee matters relating to the Espoo Convention. Why has that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I would like to put a final question to Mr. McDonald before I put one or two questions to the officials from the EPA. As I understand it, the ESRI study he mentioned estimates that costs of €4 billion, or indeed more, could arise as a consequence of an accident - please God it will not ever happen - at Hinkley Point. Does the Department agree with the assessment in the ESRI study?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: However, not to the extent where we want to have the right to engage in transboundary assessment of projects.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I am conscious of time so I will finish up after I have put a final question to Dr. Lehane and Dr. McMahon. It is unfortunate that we are so limited. It is probably unlikely that Hinkley Point will ever get built because it is so uneconomic. If it is built and there is an accident, what sorts of timelines will apply? How much notice would we have to react to an unplanned release from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: The hit could be taken by the food industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: There were consequences for some farmers as a result of Chernobyl and that was for an extended period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Senator Grace O'Sullivan asked the head of Irish Water, Mr. Jerry Grant, about the risk of radioactive contamination to our water supply. He said that if a nuclear accident happened outside Ireland, we might get some warning but that there would be no way to stop systems from being contaminated. Is there an issue in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: In light of the ESRI report on the potential risks relating to food and in the context of the small possibility of an accident happening, the question as to whether the Government should consider that the proposed plant would be likely to cause significant adverse transboundary impacts on the territory of Ireland should be answered in the affirmative rather than the negative.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I hope I have not abused my position as Acting Chairman. It is my first time as Acting Chairman and it will probably be my last. I ask Mr. McDonald to forward the correspondence to which we referred to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I thank the witnesses for attending in order to take part in this worthwhile engagement. I propose that the committee publish the opening statements and submissions on its website. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I very much appreciate the opportunity to come in. As Deputy Catherine Murphy said earlier, we have been soldiering on this specific issue for 25 years and, trust me, it is not going away. It will be centre stage in this country and city and there is a huge amount of work to be done. I am never late, and I was not late in the morning, because I cycle in, but I dare anyone to take the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I am sorry but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Fair enough. I do not mean anything personal. It is the institutions and the policy that make me angry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: It is 25 years of frustration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I apologise.