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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would appreciate if the Minister could send me a note setting out exact timelines, the bidding approach, the level of project design drawings when each of the bidding stages took place and when the final contract was agreed. As I said, I am going on anecdotal evidence from people I trust in Dublin who are involved in this area. I am just reporting back to the Minister what is being said...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Brendan Kenny, the head of housing policy in Dublin City Council, has made it clear that the council sees no way of providing further social, affordable or public housing in the centre of Dublin. What plans has the Minister to access State lands, for example, Cathal Brugha Barracks and the Broadstone garage, to ensure that we do not create a Millionaire's Row ghetto in the centre of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if national forestry supports are being reviewed in view of concerns in communities in County Leitrim and other areas relating to coniferous clear-fell forests. [5705/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We need to be forensic in determining what went wrong and how the Government blew €500 million of the public's money on this hospital, €500 million more than what was indicated in the contract in February 2017. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on 5 February, I asked Deputy Donohoe to provide to the committee a detailed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My children are not an answer to my question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Any expert I spoke to said it was an amazing decision to give the developer effectively a blank cheque. I have a second precise and forensic question in terms of what went wrong here. It is my understanding that the architects and other professional services companies who worked on the project were on a fixed percentage fee and as the costs continued to rise, their fees rose too. I would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Fixed percentage fees.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The High Court in Belfast last week agreed to review the decision to go ahead with the North-South interconnector project. It is a critical piece of infrastructure both North and South. The view in the North is that lights will go out in 2021 unless it is built. The absence of such an interconnector is costing us at least €30 million a year. I do not know if the Taoiseach had the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We need clarity on what is happening. Has the Government, subsequent to the High Court decision, any advice for the Dáil as to what is happening about it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It all needs to be updated with last week’s court case.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent discussions with EU Commission officials regarding Brexit. [5697/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to Brussels. [6703/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Taoiseach for meeting the co-leader of the European Green Party, Philippe Lamberts, last week. Mr. Lamberts is on the Brexit steering group in the European Parliament and we found the meeting very useful. What Deputy Howlin said is true. There is not a hint of a chink that we may blink either in Europe or Dublin with regard to any fundamental change to the withdrawal agreement....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Private Partnerships (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which public private partnership arrangements will be used in new road construction projects in the next five years. [6692/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the next stage of the public consultation process for the metro with particular reference to alternative routes for the metro in south County Dublin. [6691/19]

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I knew Brendan McGahon. My colleagues, Trevor Sargent and John Gormley, did also and always spoke so well about him. Similarly, my colleagues in the Green Party in Dundalk, Councillors Mark Deary and Marianne Butler spoke in the same vein of his honesty, his bravery and his integrity which was known to our party and very much appreciated. I also knew Seymour Crawford and had the great...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not know whether the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste or the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, is best placed to answer this question. It relates to the proposal to use the Mourne Mountains as a storage area for nuclear waste by the nuclear authorities in the UK. My understanding is that the Scottish Assembly ruled out such deep geological storage...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the Minister coming in to discuss how we extend the metro to the south side of Dublin. He may be aware that on Monday night, South Dublin County Council approved a motion, advanced by my colleague, Councillor Francis Noel Duffy, that rather than stopping at Charlemont, Ranelagh or Beechwood, as I believe the Minister and the Department may be considering, that we would continue...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There has been 30 years of work on this issue so it was not just by press release that they were trying to make the case. The fundamental case is that the plan can and should change, and it already has changed. It included in its original form a DART interconnector which has since been removed by the Government as an aspiration or put off into never-never land. As a result, the MetroLink...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Take it from the motorway programme.