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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 do not mean to be personal. It is the institutional policy leadership based on what I have been presented with here, which is the continuing investment in motorway upgrades on the approaches to the city in response to the congestion problem in the city. What is presented as the response is not the right response. It is that leadership-----

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 wish to finish my points. My frustration is due to the fact that if we went the alternative route and invested in cycling, as Deputy Troy said, with a high-quality, first-class network of cycling super highways in and around the city, it would do more than anything else to tackle the congestion problem. In all journeys from the centre of the city to a distance of 4 km a bicycle will be...

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 very glad.

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 was not mandated by the inspector. The 2014 demand management report did not fulfil the inspector's conditions as set out in the initial report.

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 have a related question. Mr. Creegan says that he is responsible for overall strategic transport planning but as we have heard today the road section is the responsibility of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII. The National Transport Authority, NTA, has responsibility for public transport but not for roads. I return to my central point that we are tackling congestion in Dublin by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: According to Transport Infrastructure Ireland, all the investment in the next ten years is in road widening of approach roads.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is what it says here in the document I have before me.

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 will finish this point as it is critical. No one disagrees about roads investment for safety and so on, however, let us look at what is happening in the next ten years. There is BusConnects but we will widen the blackspot at Kilmacanogue which will increase the volume of traffic coming from Wexford and Wicklow into Dublin. We will widen the Naas to Newbridge -----

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 do not doubt that the National Transport Authority wants to promote cycling. I agree with Mr. Creegan that the BusConnects project offers us a real opportunity to get the radial routes and hopefully some orbital routes as well, but we should not underestimate the real difficulty of that. To date we have seen, for example, on the Clontarf route the difficulty in getting that right and not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Surely the chief executive of the National Transport Authority has authority over Transport Infrastructure Ireland, in the sense the NTA has to drive the strategic plan, which is stopping the sprawl, getting back to the core, building public transport and, critically, walking and cycling because that is the forgotten solution. Why is it that TII, and it seems from the body language that TII...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: May I put a question to Mr. Nolan on that please?

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 have listed all of these improvements already, the necklace of approach roads that will increase the flow but where will the increased traffic that will come from all of the upgrading of the approach roads to Dublin go?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (17 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role of his Department in drafting the European climate and energy plan for Ireland by the end of 2018. [21979/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (17 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In the late 1950s, this country completely transformed from a closed economic system to an open, international one. Mr. Lemass was in power at the time. Mr. Whitaker, the Secretary General of the Department for which the Minister is now responsible, led that. We are now in a similar moment in history in that we need to change our entire economic model from an unsustainable one to a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (17 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The current plans will not do it. They are not ambitious enough and we have not grasped the opportunity that exists. The plans do not reflect the ability and willingness of the Irish to make the leap to a cleaner, sustainable economy. At a meeting of the Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport yesterday, Transport Infrastructure Ireland made a presentation. It is still doing the exact...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (17 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If we are to get real, we will heed the comments from the National Transport Authority in yesterday's committee. Its representatives conceded we do not have the resources for that bus network and most of our best engineers are stuck doing outer urban and inter-urban motorways, adding to the congestion problem rather than addressing this major problem that we have to introduce cycling...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (17 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It does not have the staff for it.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Planning Framework (17 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures contained within the national planning framework that will help to avert the impending fines for missing Ireland's 2020 renewable energy targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21980/18]

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I join with the expressions of sadness at the tragedies of recent days. Our hearts go out to the families and friends of Ana Kriegel and Jastine Valdez. Their murders have shocked the nation. This morning and this afternoon, in the Mansion House, not far from here, ECO-UNESCO is hosting the Young Environmentalists Awards. Visiting it today would lift one's heart and spirits and would...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On that very point, we wish to thank Voice Ireland and Friends of the Irish Environment, groups that have done detailed research work on this area. With regard to the deposit refund scheme, we are saying that there should be a deposit refund of 15 cent. Our estimates are that if the producer's contribution is increased from the current 0.2 cent to 1 cent per container, it would cover half...