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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (20 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to County Derry. [45930/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: My leader's question is to Deputies Micheál Martin, McDonald and Howlin and any other leader or Deputy here-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: -----and to the Taoiseach and myself.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I ask myself in the sense that we all have responsibility. The Taoiseach said the time will come some day when he is willing to say what he wants to do on climate. I believe that day is today. We cannot put it off any longer. It is today because we, in the Committee on Climate Action, can see the scale of the challenge in front of us. Under European law, we have to publish the first...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I take the Taoiseach's response as a "Yes", which puts the ball back on the Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Labour Party side of the court. That is a positive and welcome development. Regardless of whether the carbon tax is €80 or €90 per tonne by 2030, my suggestion is the appropriate way to reach our objective. Yesterday, during Leaders' Questions, the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We introduced the carbon tax.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We introduced the exact same approach.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The last initial public offering for the sale of a quarter of Allied Irish Banks was at a price of €4.50 per share. This morning AIB shares were selling at €3.79. That must make it difficult for the State to consider selling on any further stake, given that the revenue would be far lower than previously and the Government would be undermining the shareholders who have already...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: With reference to the discussion at the European Council on the integrity of the electoral system and the risk of undue influence exerted by unaccountable money on social media platforms, there will be a visit by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment to Westminster next week to discuss the issue. Companies in the United Kingdom such as Facebook have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We have gone back over the same issues but it is very important. Yesterday, a senior agricultural representative was trying to convince me that methane is not a problem. That cannot be said tomorrow. That has to stop now, today, and never be suggested again. The second big issue is at the centre of our debate. It is claimed that Irish agriculture is saving the world. We are exporting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I do not quite understand the idea of temporary versus long term. Why would that make a difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Are there any differing views on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I fully support that. On the land use in the biomass area, we are considering using biomass here for electricity power generation. We were considering importing 3 million tonnes per annum of biomass from forests in Canada or elsewhere. Is that a sustainable use of biomass?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I know it is difficult to make political assessments. The IPCC has good wording where it considers predictions to be "likely", "less likely", "more likely", "very likely" and so on. For a country like Ireland, where there is a target of an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050, everything the witnesses are saying suggests that it must be a 100% decarbonisation. What is the likelihood of us...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the ban on smoky fuels promised by his predecessor and the Taoiseach on a number of occasions in Dáil Éireann will be implemented; and the reason for the delay from the original timescale. [49613/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delay in finalising the clean air strategy in view of the fact that it is now a year since his predecessor informed Dáil Éireann that he hoped to finalise the clean air strategy within the coming weeks; and when he expects to finalise it. [49614/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Syrian refugees accepted as part of the agreement reached with the European Union; and the position Syrian refugees are at in the integration process. [49977/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am keen for an update on the numbers of people we have accepted under the relocation and resettlement strands of the UN and EU resettlement programme for refugees from Lebanon, Greece and Italy. What is the process when those people arrive here? Is the State successfully meeting our objectives for integrating and assimilating? It is important that the Government gets it right. I am keen...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the fact that the Minister of State has gone back to Lebanon to look for an additional number of refugees mainly from Syria, but also Jordan, where I understand conditions are particularly harsh for refugees. That is a welcome initiative. Is the stream of refugees we were due to take from Italy closed off now? Is that finished? I do not know whether the Minister of State is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister of State could continue to provide as much detail as possible because it is in everyone's interest that this works well. Within those figures, over the next five years, it would be good to see the levels of language ability and whether there has been success in bringing the level of understanding and use of English up. It would be interesting to see figures on the level of work...