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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am asking how it would be less harmful to the environment to have oil or gas pumped out of the north Atlantic. At a distance of approximately 232 km, it would be very expensive and require significant energy and environment-damaging procedures to bring it ashore for refining. The likelihood is that it would never be land in Ireland. It would be shipped here because it is a fungibles...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is what I would like to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: From the international oil and gas markets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is true that if we are to live up to climate science, we must keep 80% of known reserves underground. We would keep shale oil reserves underground because the last 20% to be used would be the cheapest oil, probably from Saudi Arabia and other countries. Continuing to explore for more, when we know that four fifths must remain in the ground, is wanton environmental destruction - ecocide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is no security 232 km off the County Kerry shoreline. In any case, it is a 50/1 bet. Even we were lucky, the oil would be shipped to some distant shoreline, not into Irish waters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Experience suggests that if it was located further afield, the gas would not be brought ashore in that way. That is what makes me believe the security or greener than green argument is utter bunkum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to hear the evidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can I see the evidence that has led the Minister of State to believe we would ship oil from the Porcupine Bank? Will he show me the evidence from international oil and gas experts who predict it would be brought ashore to Irish refineries? I would like to see that analysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have one last question. The Minister of State says that in 20 or 30 years technology will allow us to take the carbon out of fossil fuels before we use them. Will he explain what he thinks it is? What is the technology?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will explain again why I am seeking legal advice from the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Advisers separate from the legal advice Deputy Bríd Smith will have. This is unprecedented. In this Dáil the Waste Reduction Bill 2017 has been delayed for two years by the Department by way of a money message, but from the start it was always clear that this would be the mechanism the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 25. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered further the possible purchase of a location (details supplied) by the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24327/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is several months since High Island off the Galway coast was put up for sale. We had a discussion at that initial stage as to whether the State might have an interest during which I set out the benefits of the island’s heritage and important wildlife sanctuary which tells us what is happening in the north Atlantic’s ecology. I do not believe there has been a sale of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: At this stage, will the Minister still consider that this might be one of those unique sites? It is not just because of the national monument on it and that the OPW should have an interest. The NPWS should also have a critical interest in the island. The recent scientific analysis from the island shows it is a spectacularly important location with 4,000 breeding pairs of storm petrels and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am not telling the Minister what to bid; I am asking that she makes a bid. I understand the value for money proposition, which any Minister has to take into account. However, to have no bid and no interest is, to my mind, a real missed opportunity. I want to draw the Minister back to the key question. Let us put the national monument aside, although it is spectacular, and focus on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I assume that while in the ESB network the poles go across fields, the network must nevertheless be configured around our roads-based development. There would not be the same problem with ESB poles as we would have with fixed wireless in those circumstances as the poles would generally be contiguous with the road. Is that a fair assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We all know about our ribbon-based development and we have been giving out about it for 50 years but the ESB must be configured for a roads-based development.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It would not be a disadvantage to use the ESB poles.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is using to dealing with our pattern of development.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can the witnesses describe the network? In the case of the past few miles, where does the backhaul fibre start and where does it go to on this network?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does the backhaul start at the exchange then?