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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This debate has been so public in the past few months and the committee has held various hearings. Ms Lennon says there is nothing new in this announcement that the plan could be rolled out for €1 billion. I do not know about other members of the committee but what we are hearing today - that this has not been more openly assessed - is remarkable given that it is a public debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: He will be up on the poles.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment which is looking at the national broadband plan met representatives of Eir yesterday. They indicated that the experience Eir had of rolling out broadband to 340,000 rural houses gave it a certain credibility. It believes it could achieve roll-out to the remaining rural houses for less than €1 billion, which is one...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We have a problem at the moment in Dublin Bay. There have been discharges of sewage of various types into the bay 15 times in the past year. The fact that it is only noticed several days after the fact means people are swimming in sewage. I am keen to hear the Minister of State's views on same day testing all year round. People swim, surf and do everything in Dublin Bay all year round....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If the Minister of State does not have the details, his Department might respond in writing to my questions. I understand it is possible to have same-day testing services and that Dublin City University might have pioneered some of those systems. It is important that we advance these processes as the current system is completely inappropriate because we only find out what is wrong days...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugees Ireland has accepted under the resettlement and relocation strands of the EU relocation programme; the number of those accepted that have been found permanent accommodation; and the number that remain in reception centres. [27174/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to secure appropriate long-term accommodation for asylum seekers following the situation in County Monaghan in which over one hundred asylum seekers were removed from their accommodation and transported to County Wexford to facilitate a private function. [26852/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This discussion has been useful. I have a suggestion if it is possible for the clerk to the committee and her team to do it. They should go back over the transcript to find the key recommendations, particularly relating to the national energy and action climate plan, including the likes of e-mobility and so on. It would be useful to collate those and refer them to the Departments of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Dr. Aldred cited two examples of how to do trials and temporary improvements. We are stuck. We have been planning a Liffey cycle route for seven years. It takes time. Her comments on trials and temporary measures were interesting. Could she give some practical examples of those, or even locations would be useful? I am also interested in what she said about buses and bikes on rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does Dr. Aldred mean connecting by bike to the local bus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Everyone has been following with interest the £1.5 billion programme in Manchester that Mr. Deegan and Chris Boardman are rolling out. What is the modal split of cycling at the moment? Has it increased in recent years? How much have they spent? Is that going to be over a ten-year period? What is being spent this year and on what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What is the modal share of cycling? What are the recent statistics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Dublin will race Manchester over the next ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We shall win.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for Mr. Küster. Why did Britain get the green light from the European Cyclists' Federation on its national energy and climate actions plan? What is the UK doing that Ireland could and should do in its national energy and climate action plan? I understand that cycling represents a 36% modal share of all trips at the moment in the Netherlands. What is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have one question for all three witnesses. They have been in Dublin for the Velo-city conference for the past few days. I presume they had an opportunity to cycle around the city. We are missing the parade being held now in Clontarf, which is a pity, but what is their impression of cycling around Dublin? The Danish mayor rightly called us out yesterday morning. The poor fellow cycled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Active Travel and Urban Planning Focusing on Cycling: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I want to address a misconception. Dublin is drier than Amsterdam, a lot warmer than Copenhagen and not as sweltering as Rome. It is a bloody great place in which to cycle, and we will be like the Danes and the Dutch in 20 or 30 years. If the Government spends 10% per annum over the next ten to 20 years, it will transform life in this city and this country. That is where we are going to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise that I must leave soon to raise a Topical Issue matter in the House. To tease out further what Mr. O'Leary stated, even after the 340,000 houses were removed from the intervention area, the ESB was still considering the possibility of connecting houses from the end point of those red areas, on the outskirts of Mitchelstown, where it would be just a regulator. If the ESB had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The national broadband plan has not yet concluded and is at a pre-tender process. From the committee's hearings, it is clear the developer, Granahan McCourt, still has options for what it will use on the final few miles to a house. It has the option of using Eir poles but the Department and others have indicated that it would also be possible, in the final part of tendering process, to use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In the Mitchelstown map, it seems that the remaining houses are on roads but, in fact, they are on the boreen network. They are very much one-off housing. If there is a ribbon development on a road, one can understand that Eir linking fibre along the telegraph poles to a series of houses on a road would be much more attractive than following a winding country road to a boreen. The ESB...