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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have a short question. It is prompted by the word "overheating". I am trying to recall if the council in its previous presentations to the committee did any analysis regarding climate risk in our economy or the fiscal aspect of it. It is a risk. As Professor John FitzGerald said, we are completely off course and heading rapidly in the wrong direction. We are facing fines of €0.5...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is a floor price, not a carbon tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In the electricity market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Ms Donnelly never sees things as a problem but, rather, always as an opportunity, which is why she has been an inspiration to those involved in the semi-transition for many years and has risen to the very top of the public service. Her expertise is very highly regarded. I hope that our State will use it as best it can in tackling the significant challenge it faces. Specific and very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: May I ask a couple of short questions? As I stated, Ms Donnelly was involved at the highest level in the establishment of the Sustainable Energy for All programme, on which I think the commission did a good job. I liked the 2020 package developed by the commission but it has learned and changed its approach and the rates have evolved. We are subject to the new governance system and must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have one other suggestion. This has been hugely useful. Could the committee write to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and ask whether it has a draft plan yet and, if so, could the committee have a copy of it before it meets any of the Secretaries General?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In advance of that, could the committee see-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Taoiseach said last week that the people of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway will be able to vote for their own directly-elected mayor. Will the Taoiseach outline if that is due to go to a plebiscite in each of those cities this October, or will that just proceed because the Government has made a call on it? When will we know what the powers and structures for that office will be? ...

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to share some of my reflections on what is happening during the Brexit negotiations, which are so critical for our country, our neighbours and our European Union. Like most of my colleagues in this House, I have spent two years looking at this inside out and upside down. We are no wiser about what will happen in the next six months than we were a year or two years...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Fitzmaurice and Healy. We support the motion because our solutions to the housing crisis are better than the Minister's solutions. It is as simple as that. We want a site value tax to bring development back into the core, the Minister is following an old-fashioned sprawl development model. We want better building regulations, the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the reduction of eligibility for the single-parent allowance from 18 to seven years will be reversed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39078/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We are told that our economy is growing at a rate of 9%, that we are back to full employment and that our budget is back in balance. This is the time, therefore, to reverse what was the worst cut during the period of difficulty and crisis, namely the cut to the single parent's allowance from 18 to seven years, which was introduced four or five years ago. I am interested to know whether the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am honestly shocked that the words I hear the Minister speak today are the exact same words Senator Kevin Humphreys used when, as Minister of State with responsibility in this area, he introduced the cuts in a lone-parent's allowance when a child reached seven years. The facts belie the policy approach the Minister and her Department seem to be taking. I understand that the Indecon...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: There is nothing personal in this. It is purely the policy that concerns me. We should not discriminate between one parent and another and, in particular, we should not discriminate against lone parents who are in most in need of the State's support. We should not say to them that the way to help them is always through the paid workforce. It is right for us to leave the parents with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No. That is not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I know several, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I know several who will be deeply disadvantaged with this cut.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On 30 August, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, admitted that the Government's climate mitigation plan was not working. Earlier in the summer, the head of the Climate Change Advisory Council, Professor John FitzGerald, said that we are off course and heading rapidly in the wrong direction. At last week's Joint Committee on Climate Action...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would love to stand up here and give encouragement and acknowledgement but maybe I should have been more clear. The Government's development plan sucks when it comes to climate action and it will not do the job. We need ambition that goes way beyond what the Taoiseach has just set out. We also need political support. I support the BusConnects project but we all know in this House that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In the privacy of the national economic dialogue, the rural people were saying to us that they are sick and tired of the peat economy being dug up. We cannot even get the workers to do the retrofitting we need and the scale of the retrofit-----