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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The programme for Government should focus on the future. I will be seeking the Taoiseach's support over the next six months on the issue of climate change. The Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment will be considering the Citizens' Assembly report on climate change. I hope the committee's recommendation will be that we set up a short-term committee which...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 30. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister in Sofia. [22705/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans in relation to forestry in the context of the new European climate and energy plan under preparation. [23800/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role of his Department in relation to the development of the European climate and energy plan. [23788/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay for a very interesting presentation. My comments are not in order of importance but just as they come to me. On the issue of labour activation and supporting the social benefits derived from it, there is a concern in some circles that the agenda being pushed by the European Commission and OECD discriminates against those who decide to stay at home and raise...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Martínez Mongay stated we should broaden our tax base to support environmental objectives. Does he have specific examples in mind?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I come back on that point? I agree fully and we should-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Parents who stay at home forego income. The cost they bear is the income they do not receive. If dual income becomes the standard in an economy, house prices increase to the extent that the person who forgoes income is unable to buy a house. For this reason, should the provision not be to support both parents or to leave the choice to parents? One side should not be neglected because in a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I very much agree with the concept of a rainy day fund because counter-cyclic economics make sense. We have a Parliamentary Budget Office, which did a good report on that. Its recommendation was that it only makes sense if, within the fiscal rules, such a fund can be used in future years to provide fiscal flexibility. I asked the Minister for Finance when he appeared before the committee...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: One of the things I learned in the last few weeks of the campaign was that compassion is not an exclusive commodity. By its nature, it is open and sharing and it belongs to everyone. The people I met canvassing, mainly young women who had not been involved in politics before and who were energised by the campaign, had such compassion for themselves, their sisters and friends who had been in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Recycling Policy (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he plans to take to achieve the measure that 100% of plastics are recyclable and that 50% of such materials are recycled by 2030 as per the EU plastics strategy; and the timeframe for the introduction of such measures. [24175/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Recycling Policy (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I ask the Minister to outline how we will completely change our plastics system. The European Commission was out earlier in the week on one aspect, that of single-use plastic, but we have to go far beyond that and tackle a whole range of different issues. This morning we hear the plan of this Government is to burn our waste. An incinerator is to be built in Cork, there is one in Limerick...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Recycling Policy (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am very glad to hear that. I was also thrilled to hear the EU proposals this week because they mirror exactly what is in our waste reduction Bill. We were a year ahead of the Commission on the key things, including a ban on single use items like knives, forks and cotton tips, tackling single use cups and containers, the proposal for a 15 cent latte levy on plastic cups to fund the compost...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Recycling Policy (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We have to make sure the system is right for Irish circumstances, but we also have to make sure that we are not afraid of pushing the industry. In the case of a deposit refund scheme the latest research we have shows that our companies are paying only 0.2% per container towards the recycling system. We think that should rise to the European average, if not slightly higher. That is the...

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is not doing enough. We are not being ambitious enough. We are not thinking big enough. The sum of €1.5 million will not cut it. The climate figures being announced today are shocking in respect of how this State, this Government and the previous Government in particular have abandoned ambition. We are not thinking big enough and not thinking into the future. In my...

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Put in ten-----

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The symbol of one charging point for the Dáil is an example of why this is not the required scale of change. Perhaps people cannot see that at the moment. It is very hard to get an electric vehicle at the moment. A person who wants to buy one probably could not get one because the order book is so long. The whole world is going in this direction. That is now a rock solid guarantee....

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: What about peat?

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is a black day for the environment. This morning it was announced that in the Tánaiste's own Cork Harbour there is to be a 250,000 tonne incinerator. This is completely against modern European policy or any sort of circular economy. This afternoon we are hearing from the EPA that effectively we are going to have no emissions reductions by 2020. Everything this Government is doing...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I feel compelled to contribute because it seems from what we have just heard that this Bill is getting worse. My concern all along was that our Judiciary would be insulted as an unintended, or maybe intended in some quarters, consequence of the process of this Bill. What I have just heard goes further, in the sense that we are demeaning politics now as well. Under the structure or process...