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Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: First Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Coimisiún Náisiúnta um Thrasdul Cóir or, in the English language, the National Just Transition Commission to oversee the bringing together of workers, communities, employers and government in social dialogue to drive the plans, policies and...

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: First Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was only warming up.

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: First Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to discussing the Bill in much more detail at a later stage.

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: First Stage (7 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the necessary legal provisions are in place to enable local authorities approaching the development of large land banks such as Poolbeg and Ballymastone to provide cost rental housing on those lands in view of the support of Dáil Éireann for cost rental housing expressed in the approval of the motion of 6 March...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I enjoyed listening to Mr. Draghi's contribution earlier. One of our pillar banks, AIB, had to be rescued by the State in the middle of the financial crash, which took 100% equity. Two or three years ago, the Government sold in an initial public offering, a quarter of the stock at a price of €4.40 per share. The shares today are trading at a 10% discount on that. The bank recently...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will talk to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle separately. I must leave to attend a committee now.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if finance (details supplied) is available for Dublin City Council to develop the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ, fully without entering into a public-private development partnership. [46662/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units to be built that will be for purchase; and the number that will be affordable cost-rental properties for rent in view of the comments made by the Minister of State with special responsibility for local government and electoral reform during a Topical Issue debate on 24 October 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the decision making process from inception to delivery for the development by public-private partnership of new housing in instances (details supplied); and the decisions taken by him, the local housing authority chief executive or his officials and by the elected councillors. [46663/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I fully agree with Mr. Donnellan when he said it is critical to get this transition in Bord na Móna right. It is a proud, brilliant company with a great workforce and, therefore, we must get it right. I have a terrible fear that it is being led down a cul-de-sac in the context of an unsustainable approach in promoting the continued firing of biomass in power generation. No one I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Donnellan indicated that Bord na Móna will use 1.3 million tonnes in 2020 and 2021. By 2027, however, Mr. Donnellan said it will convert all three power stations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It will be almost 3 million tonnes, in that case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Will that be imported from America?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Donnellan stated that people who work in sales and public relations might make the purchase in America. Is the deal in respect of a particular forest in Georgia going ahead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Bord na Móna still wishes to buy some biomass from America, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: From an environmental perspective, in a world where everyone will have to decarbonise and where biomass is critical for heat and combined heat and power with 90% efficiency, using it for power generation with only 30% efficiency makes no sense. There is a real risk that the company will be worked into that dead end and it will not be sustainable or continued. Another transition will then be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Has any analysis been done of the value the peat would have if it stayed in the ground, in order that the bogs were not opened up, and if it was done as a carbon store? What would the value of that be compared with the value of selling to horticultural growers in Holland or England?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would love Bord na Móna to boom. Why is it that Mr. Donnellan mentioned nothing about retrofit in his presentation? Mr. Andrew McDowell, the head of the European Investment Bank, EIB, was in Dublin last week and he said that he estimates there is a €50 billion business in this area in Ireland and the main problem is he has no counterparties who are looking to lend in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We should also try to co-ordinate a grid in planning, although there will still be difficulties with the timelines. I was reminded that one of Mr. Donnellan's distant predecessors appeared in one of these rooms and said the maximum amount of renewable power we would ever get in the system was 800 MW, after which it would be extremely dangerous. As Mr. Donnellan said in his presentation,...