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

Eamon Ryan: Setting up SIRO was a brave and correct investment by the ESB and Vodafone. Their analysis of the digital plans of Europe and the interconnection between digital and the electricity networks will only enhance matters. It seems to have been a brave and successful investment, given that SIRO has managed to pass 250,000 houses and has 40,000 customers. What will come next for SIRO?

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

Eamon Ryan: Representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform raised concerns here. They were similar to the concerns raised in the memorandum to the Government. A very unusual, separate memorandum was sent to Ministers. At the end, it effectively stated the process should be stopped and that the Government should start with a State entity - it was not specified which exactly -...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Our thoughts are with the family of Councillor Manus Kelly as he is buried today. It is a tragic loss. Tomorrow our thoughts should also be with the friends and family of Ivan Cooper, and on how we need men like Ivan Cooper today. Coming from a working-class Protestant tradition, he ended up managing a shirt factory. Championing the cause of the Catholic workers in his factory, he led...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I recognise that in the diplomatic world it is sometimes right to play things low key. However, I fear that we could be sitting here in three or four months' time, at which point it would certainly cease to be low key. It would be elevated to a political crisis, not only in the economic order but also in respect of the constitutional fabric of our agreements. In a no-deal scenario where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: -----is direct rule and the end of the Good Friday Agreement. That is something we cannot ignore.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There are other connections.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am not a member of the committee, but when I saw BirdWatch Ireland's presentation I wanted to be present. It is a hugely important review of where we are in this country. As Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell said, our bird populations are the canary in the mine where our wider environmental challenges are concerned. This indicator screams that there is a huge problem in our sea areas,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That has been mapped. Are the witnesses aware of any other mapping exercises that show where we should plant continuous cover forestry, restore wetlands, allow heath lands to be grazed or protect certain heath lands? Has any mapping work been done apart from the Teagasc map of high nature value farming, or is that a project we will have to undertake in the State both for climate reasons and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Dr. Donaghy is right. All of this must be done. The climate action plan calls for this mapping exercise to be done by the end of the year. That can be done in conjunction with the revision of the Common Agricultural Policy provisions so that farmers are paid when we designate wetland areas for restoration. At the same time we must change our entire forestry support model so we stop...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Bird Population in Ireland: BirdWatch Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I represent an urban constituency. We are doing our bit in terms of putting in swift boxes and so on, but do the witnesses have any other advice for us? It seems that our urban environment is often very diverse and rich in flora with all the gardens we have. Is there anything the witnesses would recommend to householders in urban areas? What can we do? Strangely enough, the urban bird...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it will next meet. [26620/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to comment on something Mr. Ó hÓbáin stated. We have had some interesting hearings and many very good presentations, including one from the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that was delivered in private session. From the analysis from Analysys Mason, it was not a long-term vision that forced us to look to fibre to every house, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Department could not even consider fixed wireless, the other alternative, which is also evolving-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The main reason not to choose fixed wireless is because of the topography of our sprawled development model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Like Deputy Dooley, my concern is that the Taoiseach has been misinformed. When I asked him about this in the Dáil, he stated that one has to be careful not to disadvantage one part of the country versus another. The truth is that we are giving an advantage to one-off housing. This is one of the concerns of the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have an objection to the fundamental principle that we bring high-quality broadband to every house. I agree with that. We have heard that the reason we are doing fibre is not that it is for the long-term but that it is a sprawled model. The sprawled model is also the reason for some of the costs. An extra 60,000 properties is a lot of additional sprawl because they are outside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Let us take those two factors-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If Eir has given an incorrect figure, it should correct that. The chief executive of Eir informed this committee last week that Eir could complete the project for €1 billion or even less. I am reading the letter from the Department with the invitation to submit detailed solutions, ISDS, subsidy requirement and alternatives, and it is complicated because there is an absolute subsidy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What is the Department's least subsidy?