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

Eamon Ryan: That is what I heard and I was at that meeting. The scale of the challenge and what I am looking for is for us to agree with Professor John Fitzgerald when he said that we should spend €5 billion retrofitting our social housing so that we end fuel poverty. Let us do that and provide €30 billion in financing for retrofitting every other home so that it generates its own power...

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

Eamon Ryan: Will the Taoiseach change his development plan because it will not work in terms of the climate?

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

Eamon Ryan: It is kind of important.

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

Eamon Ryan: It is 63 and national roads.

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

Eamon Ryan: And national roads.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: President Juncker, in his State of the Union address last week, made it clear that the European Commission and Parliament will pass plastics legislation that will help people to stop wasting single use plastics. The legislation mirrors the Waste Reduction Bill the Green Party introduced more than a year ago. Our committee had to write to the President of the European Commission and the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the Taoiseach's visit to the UN and signal our ongoing support of the UN. Who in the Government will signal our disapproval of President Trump's comments yesterday in his UN speech? I do not know if the Taoiseach has had the chance to see it yet but the level of bellicose and threatening content was beyond belief. It would have been laughable in its arrogance if it were not so...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a Citizens' Assembly on gender equality. [37580/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask a quick question? Did any of the witnesses here watch Ms Marie Donnelly's presentation last week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If Mr. Griffin watches that he will understand the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for SEAI. Mr. Jim Scheer said he did modelling work showing that we were 50 million tonnes short on the 2030 climate target. Could he give me an update on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I have access to that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask the Secretary General how the national development plan was published without including any climate assessment or before there was agreement on one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How was it that a national development plan was signed off by Government before there was an understanding or assessment of what the climate impact would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How was it that a national development plan was signed off by a Government before there was an understanding as to what the climate impact would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have heard all of this already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am asking our questions very quickly and I do not mean to be rude, but I do go back to the question. Why was the national development plan signed off before we knew what its climate impact would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am reminded of the scene in the film "Jaws" when they see the big shark going by and they think that they are going to need a bigger boat. We are going to need a hell of a bigger boat to tackle climate change, and Mr. Griffin has a critical position in that regard. Our job is to help him in this way. I agree with Mr. Griffin's own Minister when he says that the mitigation plan is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: He said it was not working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We were fighting it at every turn. In each of those European packages, I saw the files coming from Brussels, and in each case we were fighting it, which makes me believe that Europe is not going to be easy for us in this whole process. We are going to have a tough job to explain to the Commission what we are doing. If Mr. Griffin's Department would like to see the circular economy...