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Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is news.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As the Prime Ministers meet in Council, I am sure one of the things they will be talking and thinking about, particularly as they debate migration, is the results of the elections that took place in Europe this week, in Bavaria in Germany, Brussels in Belgium and Luxembourg. Each was a historic vote. There was an incredible surge in the vote for the Green Party across Europe. It was a vote...

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Ministers and Ministers of State who are being appointed to new positions today are four capable men. They are good-humoured in everything they do. They are good men. The only problem is that none of them is a woman.

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is a terrible pity that Olwyn Enright and others with her scale of talent could not be here today to be appointed as Ministers. Deputy McHugh's forthcoming appointment as a Minister is a huge honour for him and his family. We wish him the best of luck. As Deputy Howlin said earlier, to sit at the Cabinet table for the first time is a unique honour in our Republic. I am quite sure that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance if the budget €50,000 limit on benefit-in-kind exemption for electric vehicles will apply retrospectively to vehicles purchased prior to budget day. [42369/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug osimertinib will be made available to persons with EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer; the cost-benefit analysis undertaken regarding the provision of the drug; and the reason it is not available here in view of the fact that it is widely available across the EU. [41956/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the advisory board for the climate action fund has been established; and if so, the members of same. [41957/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 541. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received to the climate action fund by the deadline of 1 October 2018. [41958/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 542. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if State-owned companies such as Bord na Móna and Coillte which hold large landbanks of degraded peatland from which emissions could be cost effectively abated are eligible to apply to the climate action fund; and if so, if they were notified of the fund. [41959/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the organisations which were notified of the climate action fund by letter or email. [41960/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 544. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if public health benefits are one of the criteria to be used in assessing applications under the climate action fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the cost of an NC5 non-batch application will be removed; if the requirement for a planning application in order to make the application will be removed; and the guidelines and guidance on the costs of making the connection. [41963/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to remove the requirement for planning permission for residential solar photo-voltaic installations (details supplied). [41962/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Today An Bord Pleanála has turned down the planning application to build a plaza in College Green. Our city is grinding to a halt. The national planning framework proposes going back to the core and creating these civic spaces, but nothing is happening. There is not a single public transport project or cycling project. This plan was years in preparation and now it has been thrown out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector Reports: Discussion with RTÉ (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Ms Forbes for the report. It has been very frustrating for the joint committee because we commissioned a good report which we had hoped would give the Government cover to make some necessary decisions on the funding of all media, not just RTÉ. Our intention was to try to provide support for Irish media because, as we all recognise, local Irish media are under threat as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector Reports: Discussion with RTÉ (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Will RTÉ's representatives come back to me with a written response to the question of GAA funding and how much money comes from it? It is a specific technical area in which I am interested. I wish to make a general political point. I asked the Taoiseach last week or the week before about promised legislation on the funding of broadcasting in Ireland. He said Ms Forbes, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector Reports: Discussion with RTÉ (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: RTÉ might get a lecture at the end of quarter 1. That might put off any decision to quarter 2, if it is done by someone else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector Reports: Discussion with RTÉ (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to ask a supplementary question. I recall that Ms Forbes' predecessor had mooted an arrangement whereby the independent production sector in Ireland and other broadcasters and media would have open and free access to the archives in return for more stable funding, if a stable funding solution was provided for RTÉ. It could potentially really open up Irish creative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector Reports: Discussion with RTÉ (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It would make a lot of sense as it would stimulate the Irish industry as a whole. If it was done in return for good funding arrangements for RTÉ, it would be the right time to do it.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Climate Change Policy (18 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to facilitate private businesses in transitioning to a low carbon and more sustainable business model. [43004/18]