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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is that the reason Facebook still has false accounts, in a sense, because it cannot, as a result of data privacy rules, ensure that it has authentic people in every case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If Ms Sweeney could provide it in written form, it would be appreciated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Briefly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will be very brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On that point, Ms Sweeney is right. Facebook is a hugely powerful and useful platform. I use it to advertise online because I can target people. We have sought a similar level of transparency from all parties. Members should start to seek such transparency in their own parties, given that we are looking for it from others. On the power of Facebook, I was given a personal example. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It was useful, but as Facebook moves towards home energy management and directing vehicles, my concern is with its possession of data and material. When there is the same crossover, the power of knowledge and information and the ability for that information to be corrupted by external forces become a real concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The ad I received was for houses in the village in which I looked for a house, not Mayo in general.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We support the Sparkasse banking model - I have been working with the group for about four years - as presented by Irish Rural Link and others to the Department of Finance. It was very disappointing to get the response from the Department of Finance. I understand that the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, is saying that all is not lost and that the Government should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We need a new development model for rural Ireland and if we were imaginary and visionary, An Post could have a central role in such a model. I have three questions in three areas where we could look to expand the business and create that new development model. First, Mr. McRedmond stated towards the end of his opening contribution that An Post was looking for additional government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How long has An Post been looking for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Clare Deputies might know about where it worked in the past or have seen it working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: From where?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As I have five minutes I will make more of a statement but I hope it will lead to a question. I thank the secretariat, Ms Justice Laffoy and the 99 members of the Citizens' Assembly. They have done the State real service and set an international example that has been noticed in terms of how engagement with people on complex issues can work. Ms Justice Laffoy did the job really well on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I think that if Deputy Murphy becomes Minister for Finance, he will look back and say the ESRI did not think big enough. I am sorry but I see a complete dearth of ambition here and the scale of change we need is not in the analysis presented. I am sorry for giving such a blunt assessment but I believe it is true. We need system change not marginal change and what the ESRI has presented is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to raise a couple of things on which Professor Barrett might come back to us. It could be a written response; he does not have a respond immediately here. I would appreciate it if he could write to us. I will take one or two examples from each of the key sectors. In energy, the carbon tax will have an effect on the domestic but on the main power generation side, it is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The second question relates to the specific sector of transport. Would Professor Barrett agree with the analysis of, I think, Professor Edgar Morgenroth that our national planning framework was right in terms of bringing development back to the core, which helps to cut down carbon as well as creating a better and much more economically efficient society? Instead what we ended up with in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The shadow price of carbon on transport fuels is €120 a tonne at the moment. It is not effecting any change so I am slightly sceptical about that part. I have one final question. Does Professor Barrett agree with the recommendation from the Citizens' Assembly from Alan Matthews with regard to the introduction of a form of taxation on land use emissions, including agriculture?...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Fleet (7 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1071. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the National Transport Authority, NTA, is proposing a new colour scheme for buses in Dublin which would be dark blue on the front and back and that persons with visual impairments are concerned that this colour scheme will make the buses much less visible; if there has or will be public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Climate Change Advisory Council (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I agree strongly with Ms Burke. Thinking about timeframes, Professor FitzGerald reminded me that Sue Scott wrote something about this issue in 1992. I recently found a dust-covered book on my shelf written by my colleague, John Gormley, which set out the science of climate change. It was written in 1988 or 1989 but it could have been written yesterday. The time for marginal change is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Climate Change Advisory Council (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I very much welcome Professor FitzGerald's statement at the outset that we, as the Oireachtas representing all parties here and Independents, have a role in that. Our committee has a role in that our remit is to inform and open up consultation on this new European national energy and climate action plan, which I understand is the definitive plan. Everyone here is guessing in terms of what...