Results 8,981-9,000 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Data (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantities of pig, poultry and cattle manure imported and exported between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in each of the past five years in tabular form. [22928/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Data (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of LDPE or HDPE beverage containers sold here on an annual basis; and the number that are recycled. [22915/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Data (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of PET beverage containers sold here on an annual basis; and the number that are recycled. [22916/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Data (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of aluminium beverage containers sold here on an annual basis; and the number that are recycled. [22917/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which a company's (details supplied) charges compare to similar schemes in other EU countries. [22918/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the fees a company (details supplied) collects fund litter clean up and litter bin collection in view of the fact that at least 80% of the waste by volume is comprised of packaging. [22919/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of separate collection of compostable litter in place; and the plans in place to collect more compostable litter separately. [22920/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to reduce the amount of plastic packaging generated (details supplied). [22921/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to improve the recycling rate for plastic packaging in view of the fact that the plastic packaging recycling rate correspondingly has decreased from 47% to 34% in the years from 2011 to 2015. [22922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to increase the incentive for packaging producers to reduce plastic packaging. [22923/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Legal Cases (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is subject to budgetary constraints when engaging in litigation whether as an applicant, defendant or notice party. [22926/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration Licences (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department carries out screening for environmental impact assessment for applications to explore for oil or gas in waters which include the use of seismic testing; if so, the procedures by which this screening is carried out; and if not, the reason therefor. [22932/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration Licences (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out an environmental impact assessment for applications to explore for oil or gas in Irish waters which include the use of seismic testing. [22933/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the quantity of ammonia that was emitted to the atmosphere in each of the past five years here as a result of the importation and spreading of animal manure from Northern Ireland. [22934/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the screening procedures undertaken and communicated to the public here to determine whether a transboundary impact on the environment and-or human health is likely from an application in Northern Ireland for an installation for the intensive rearing of pigs and poultry, further to Ireland’s and the UK's obligations...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Ireland plans to ratify the second amendment to the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context published in 2004 which came into force on 23 October 2017 and which has been ratified by 32 nations; and if Ireland is committed to this international convention and will ratify the second...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Ireland has undertaken the legislative changes necessary to comply fully with transboundary obligations under the environmental impact assessment directive and the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context. [22931/18]

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I want to back Deputy Coppinger. She is absolutely right. We should give it time.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Yesterday the European Commission set out a whole series of new rules to discourage single-use plastics across the EU. The rules have been put forward to the Parliament and are proposed to be obligatory. They mirror exactly the provisions contained in our Waste Reduction Bill 2017. Last week the committee voted to put that Bill through to Committee Stage. 3 o’clock It is clear...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Many of us shared the relief expressed by Deputy Clare Daly in the House yesterday on having got through the recent referendum. Perhaps the last thing we might want to face is the prospect of another referendum in October but that is what the Government has committed to on the wording around blasphemy in the Constitution, the role of women in the home and an instruction for a plebiscite for...