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

Eamon Ryan: Given the council's policy advice role and what Professor FitzGerald has said, would the council advise the Government and the committee that one of the most urgent and immediate matters is a national land-use plan to complement or back up the national planning framework, which does not contain one? As he said, land use is one of the biggest issues. I have concerns about methane. The...

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

Eamon Ryan: It would be useful if the committee could get a copy of the most recent analysis by TRAM.

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

Eamon Ryan: There is a need for a land use plan.

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

Eamon Ryan: The EU might.

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

Eamon Ryan: The Tipperary Energy Agency was mentioned. It may have written to the committee suggesting a visit to look at some of the work it is doing on deep retrofit. What was said here is true and that it is a good example. Perhaps that is something we should consider. If the EPA is not the right body to answer this question, the witnesses might know whom I should ask. Who would tell us whether...

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

Eamon Ryan: In advance of officials from the Department coming in, it would be good to have written information from it following on from what we have discussed this morning. The officials in question are scheduled to appear in early course. It is remarkable that the chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council is saying that it cannot get access to the modelling. The committee must also have access...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Professor Sweeney has been a highly influential scientific adviser to various Oireachtas committees on the climate issue over the years. Mr. Oisín Coghlan said we should stitch the 2050 targets into legislation. I would be nervous about such an approach because I believe our targets might not be sufficiently ambitious. Today, the President of the European Commission, Mr. Junker, has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: To interpret that, Professor Sweeney is saying it is happening more quickly. When he refers to decarbonisation, I presume he means 100%, not 80%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have a second question. Ms Cliona Sharkey might be interested in answering this as well because she represents an agency with a global perspective. In some of the arguments and discussions we have had about land use and the area of agriculture, the message we have heard is that Irish farming and agriculture are low-carbon relative to that of other jurisdictions, that we have an obligation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is for Professor Sweeney as well, or indeed-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: -----whoever would like to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: This is not a rural-urban divide issue. Irish farmers are already suffering from climate change. We saw it this summer. If we have a long, cold winter, agriculture will be in deep trouble. Urban or rural, we all realise that. We must help our farming community. Mr. St. Ledger set out a new model for a close-to-nature forestry. He does not have to answer now, but is there any paper he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Just to add to the Chairman's comments, it was an excellent presentation.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Earlier this summer, Deputy O'Connell and the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, supposedly had daggers drawn over the development of the Dublin metro. Later in the summer, I happened to be at a public meeting where the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, who is sitting behind him, had an upfront,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: And Dublin.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No leadership.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Taoiseach spoke in favour of it when he was in opposition, as did the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [29412/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It seems we are coming down to the crux of the withdrawal element within the Brexit negotiations, and it seems to focus on the issue of whether there will be a border in the Irish Sea or what type of border would exist between the island of Ireland and Britain. I know our preference might have been for as easy a border-less east-west outcome as a North-South one. However, as I understand it...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management Data (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of houses and apartments that have a municipal compost bin. [37583/18]