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

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is adding blindness to insult.

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

Eamon Ryan: Take it from the motorway programme.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I hope I will not repeat some earlier questions. I asked the Taoiseach a couple of questions yesterday but I did not get answers. First, under this two-phase approach did the Minister for Health not realise it in February 2017? That was when there was €950 million for the hospital, €100 million for IT and €100 million for equipment. Anybody I have spoken to who has...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will ask the same question I asked the Taoiseach yesterday. I am not certain on this so I am asking the question for information. Is it true that the professional services companies such as the architects and others were on a fixed percentage contract and, therefore, when the cost ballooned their percentage went up as well? If so, what might that have cost?

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would appreciate it if I could get that tomorrow.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My final question is for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I was wondering if we had built a hospital like this in the past and Tallaght hospital came to mind. That hospital was opened in 1998. It has 560 beds and 12 theatres so it is not very different. I believe the cost was €140 million.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Tullamore hospital might have been similar but I am familiar with Tallaght hospital. Where was the institutional memory in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? There were capital overruns of IR£2.5 million for Tallaght hospital and there was uproar. Deloitte was asked to report on it. Where was the institutional expertise and memory in the Department that it did not look...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: One of the cost overruns I have heard about is for cabling. I refuse to accept that cabling for a children's operating theatre versus a general operating theatre could not have been managed from previous experience. I do not believe the big cost overruns are necessary because of some high technology medical difference between a children's hospital and a general hospital. The Minister just...

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the further use of green bonds in public debt management and for the hypothecation of such funds for capital investment projects here. [7514/19]

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome that we raised €3 billion from a green bond issued in the autumn. I understand that the bond will mature in approximately 12 years and that it was sold at a yield of 1.2% or 1.3%. Nevertheless, we need to scale up the initiative considerably. Our existing national development plan will bring us only one third of the way, at most, towards our climate target for 2030. There...

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have some suggestions for ways we could use those bonds to invest in long-term projects that will yield a substantial return. Yesterday, I raised with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the possibility of a metro loop on the southside of Dublin. Rather than stopping the underground in Charlemont Street or Ranelagh, it could be extended to Terenure, Templeogue and Tallaght on...

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am disappointed. We should not be saying that we cannot hypothecate. Green bonds do hypothecate: they have to go towards sustainable investments. The market for those bonds is looking for exactly the type of project I am talking about. I remember Mr. Andrew McDowell coming here a couple of years ago and he was crying out to lend long-term for these bonds but lamenting the fact that...

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can I have a further rejoinder?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is sitting beside the Tánaiste. He could have indicated that date in an aside. On an issue for which the Tánaiste does have responsibility, on Tuesday in the Dáil, the Taoiseach said he would be looking to try to reassure the UK Government that the backstop and the accompanying customs arrangement would not trap them into that customs arrangement forever and a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Three weeks ago I asked the Taoiseach what the Government's plans were for the wording of a referendum to support the work of those who care for people at home. The Taoiseach said at the time that the Government was due to comment on that issue within two weeks. Does he have an update on what the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Government intend to do in this regard?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversation with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [6702/19]

European Defence Agency Project: Motion (19 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: No one in the House would wish to deprive our Irish military of real capabilities around search, unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices. Clearly, we want to protect our troops and ensure they have the best training, advice and skills in respect of those critical military capabilities. The Green Party supports our troops strongly and wants them to have those resources and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I support the measures proposed for the legislation. While I acknowledge that this is legally complex, the Minister referred to trading North and South and the benefits we all derive from that. Can he give an update on the position regarding the North-South interconnector? It has been planned for the past 15 or 20 years. It has been stuck in our planning system and is now stuck in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is that equivalent to the start of the ministerial consent process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does the Minister have a timeline in that regard?