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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is there are approximately 200 or 300 sustainable energy communities, which SEAI has supported in working together. Why have none of them come together and put solar panels on a couple of hundred roofs? There may be examples that Mr. Melvin can outline. The examples of the Aran Islands and County Tipperary are often cited but are there other examples where something is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I remember six or seven years ago seeing Brixton as a local community that developed community solar power by collectively installing solar panels on a range of roofs. In Ranelagh, which is in my constituency, what would prevent me from approaching 200 or 300 households and saying we should all take the initiative together? It would be much cheaper to buy 2,000 panels than a small number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: As another example, six or seven years ago, I met representatives from a company in Flanders, Belgium, called Ecopower, which does exactly what Mr. Melvin outlined. It was evolving to be a supply company, as well as helping people to generate electricity, and was able to aggregate small shares of €250. It has done this work for six years and the Commission has pointed to it as an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Where will it be launched?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It should start in Ranelagh. We have heard how the ESB has been a core part of the problem because it does not want people affecting its business model, which is selling as much electricity as it can. Surely regulators have thought for a long time about flipping the entire business model in order that the utilities' job is not to sell electricity but rather to minimise it and help...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is fine. As we have discussed elsewhere, I believe that the CRU's role needs to change to one where cost minimisation is not a sufficient indicator of success. Success is about decarbonising and minimising use.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the fact that the UK Government is moving towards regulatory alignment for agricultural and manufactured products in a possible Brexit deal, but we need other regulatory alignments. I cite the example of regulations for the environment, which knows no borders. Do we know whether regulatory alignment will apply to the likes of the habitats directive, the water framework directive...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When this project was originally put forward in 2008 it was not opposed. We lived in a completely different world then. It was in the middle of a Russia-Europe gas crisis when people across eastern Europe were freezing in their apartments after the gas supply had been cut off. Fracked gas was only in its infancy at the time and we did not have renewable power supplies at the cost...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The horse has already bolted.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The budgetary process is important to long-term thinking about where we are going as a country. It starts with recognising that to have a secure long-term future and develop and progress as a country, we need a secure economy. We need to avoid what we saw happen in the 1980s and mid-2000s, a budget or financial crash which hinders our ability to do anything. As such, the first...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: BusConnects is not even in planning; it is in consultation. Believe me, I have been to 15 or 20 consultation meetings. Those involved are the first to admit it is not even near going to planning. Where is the Navan rail corridor? It is gone. Where is the metro? It is not in planning. Perhaps in a few years' time we might think about starting to build something. As I have said, on the...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The joint committee has done a good job over the last year. One of the key recommendations on which all members agreed was the need to analyse how the introduction of any carbon tax could be progressive rather than regressive. That involved two requests which, unfortunately, were not met. The first was the carrying out of a fuel-poverty study by the Department of Finance, which did not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Yesterday's briefing from Downing Street, presumably from Mr. Cummings, said that the Taoiseach thinks he cannot lose by refusing to compromise now and that the British will have to put the offer back on the table whatever happens after 31 October. However the UK Government says that the deal it offers now will not be revived, that its duty of sincere co-operation would be "in the toilet" as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not mind levity but this is serious stuff. This is the issue of today beyond any historic moment I can remember. I can recall 2010. We are in a similar moment because what happens here in the next few weeks is important for the people of this country. This is deadly serious. I was using an analogy to show that we know politics in the UK inside out, intimately. I have ten first...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I encourage the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste to try to get a deal in the next week. There was a very good briefing this morning in the AV room from the Border people who are opposed to Brexit and the harsh reality of what a no-deal crash out would bring, particularly in Northern Ireland and in the southern Border counties. There would be massive unemployment and all that might bring. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will go back to the question of thinking forward to 2050. I would like to look at the amendment included in Dr. Deane's paper. I refer to point 12 on the need to be more ambitious. I think we all agree that rather than aiming for an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050, we need to be more ambitious. Complete decarbonisation will be needed sooner than 2050. There is political consensus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The UK Labour Party said that if it gets into government, it will seek to achieve the net zero target by 2030. I mention that as an example of how people are upping the ante in this regard. I have referred to the application of CCS. I understand a floating LNG terminal is now being considered. The idea might be to attach it to a combined cycle gas plant. I assume it would be argued that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Dr. Deane. In the absence of certain people, including officials from the Department, he is the closest thing I can get to someone against whom I might be able to argue. I say that on the basis of some of the analysis he has done. I agree with his analysis that this infrastructure is not needed. I would like to debunk the alternative argument, which is that CCS can be used to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This is already expensive. The additional cost of transporting the carbon dioxide would add to the expense.