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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to meeting the other agencies and questioning them on this plan and its patent failings in the context of transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chairman.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will revise the capital allocation in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 to take into account the new all of Government climate action plan. [25827/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister. I welcome the publication of the climate plan on Monday. We have done good work.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are doing good work in our political and governance arrangements regarding how we tackle climate change. The scale of this challenge is beyond compare, however. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, yesterday stated that a reduction of 2% is required every year in the next decade. We then have to ramp that figure up to a 7%, 8% and 9% reduction...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We currently have 51 major national road and motorway projects either being built or in planning. We do not have a single public transport project at the same stage. We need to shift our transport spending radically towards supporting active travel and public transport. If we do not do that, we will see an ongoing sprawl developing further and further out around the country. It will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

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Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Summer is here.

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are in a climate and biodiversity emergency. There is no doubt about that. As a country, we will rise to the challenge and we will be able to become leaders in our response, rather than the laggards we are at the moment, because this House reflects the will of the Irish people and they want to do it. I believe that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Communications,...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are on a remarkable economic knife edge. I cannot remember a precedent where the path between overheating the economy or, unfortunately, what looks more likely, a very sharp downturn on the back of what the UK Government does or does not do has presented such a remarkable black and white scenario. If we are expecting the latter, we must prepare for it. If we must adjust in September, so...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I mentioned in my contribution the stabilisers. The summer economic statement sets out the potential disimprovement to the general Government balance of €6 billion. Is that after stabilisers have been applied or does the Minister have a figure for what the benefit would be with stabilisers correcting such movements? How much does it give us?

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister talked about supporting the economy in the event of a crash-out, no-deal Brexit and cited temporary targeted funding for the sectors most affected. The Minister must, at this stage, have knowledge of what those sectors might be. How would that funding apply and what mechanisms would be used in such circumstances?

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I want go back to my earlier contribution and the better ways of directly supporting communities that would be badly hit, such as the farming community, in the likely event of a Brexit downturn. Does the Minister think that, rather than giving cash straight to companies, the Government should look at schemes that directly support farmers? In doing so, that would steer us in the right...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On a final point, part of the process is to protect the sectors that might be damaged by Brexit. However, it is also about looking for stimulus that can be turned on very quickly, given the nature of this potential downturn. The examples I mentioned of immediate capital projects, such as targeted local authority or council spending on footpaths and retrofits, might on their own be tiny, but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, further to the enactment of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, he has instructed schools to make additional provision for children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26584/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 613. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the importation of fracked gas from the United States of America; and if measures will be taken to have liquified natural gas, LNG, from fracked sources removed from the EU projects of common interest list in view of climate change commitments and in view of the commitment to ban fracking. [26918/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 673. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by diverting freight to rail. [26658/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating and incentivising switching from diesel and petrol cars to electric cars. [26659/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 675. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating and incentivising modal shift from cars to public transport. [26660/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 676. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating and incentivising modal shift from cars to bicycles. [26661/19]