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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is owned by Petronas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We would have to pay it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: One of the concerns we have - I believe I have heard other Deputies say it - is that we seem to be holding back on the hydrogen. I suppose a gas networks company is used to using natural gas. The witness made a point that one would need large volumes of wind, which we already have. We are planning to have 70% renewables, which will be largely made up of wind, by 2030. I think the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Norwegians are also building floating offshore wind. We are thinking of 20 GW over the next decade, and somebody the other day told me 70 GW of offshore wind off the west coast of Ireland. In the timelines we are talking about, would that not set our course to say we have this massive wind resource, particularly the potential from floating wind off the west? We have the infrastructure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If it is a choice between importing fracked gas from the United States, where there is a real problem, or importing offshore wind, I know which I would be betting on if I was on the board of Gas Networks Ireland, GNI, or was the responsible Minister. On the question of costs, the other main component of Gas Networks Ireland, GNI, development is the development of biomethane from Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is for gasification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have been to UCC and it has done significant work over the years but I have not seen it advance. What I have seen advance is major concern about nitrous oxides and ammonia. In the Dáil today, one Deputy after another stood up to say that we had an agricultural crisis because it had been raining for several weeks in Kerry and people did not know where to put the slurry on their land....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Gas Networks Ireland will not be using ryegrass, per se. Mr. O'Sullivan believes the fertilisers from the digester would be sufficient to get these ryegrass monocultures that we have working. We are still left with ryegrass monoculture. I have one other point on this, and I apologise to the Chair for taking up so much time. I refer to the SEAI's assessment that the new European directives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I fully agree and am in support on the use of waste and having a biogas element. However, I am highly sceptical about the 20% target or indeed about increasing it beyond that with the gasification and other mechanisms that are being suggested. I would love to see the scientific analysis of how much land is required, the whole cycle, the detailed information as to how that figure is arrived...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We just might have no nature left.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is difficult to ask about the Brexit process because the matter is so complex and people are in the "tunnel" - the word of the moment. Lord knows what will come out of that tunnel but we wish those involved in the talks well. If, as those in the media seem to be indicating. it may return something similar to the deal which was originally envisaged almost two years ago and which has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Taoiseach for those comments. I look forward to seeing how this evolves along the lines he suggested. In the first instance, we should start with those bigger parties. When I say that the centre has a role to play, it is not a threat, it is not a power grab and it is not me outlining a nationalist position. I am not declaring it that way. What I am doing is recognising that...

Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is funny. In politics, one learns the lesson that a lot of time is spent trying to jump over one hurdle only to realise that, once that has been achieved, there is another hurdle ahead. I hope a deal is agreed between the negotiators today in Europe and that it gets over the hurdle of being agreed at the European Council on Thursday and Friday. I presume it then has to get over the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether the evidence that fracked gas is significantly worse for the environment, particularly in respect of methane emissions and other types of fossil fuels, and that actions or decisions by the Government that would allow the use of fracked gas here directly contravenes and undermines meaningful action...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the mechanisms he is considering to develop private finance models in support of the deep retrofit of residential buildings; and the way in which such financing might be expected to operate with respect to the length of loans, interest rates and so on. [42276/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: They did actually say it was preference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I refer to Dr. Muireann Lynch's.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will make a comment that is useful to the discussion before asking questions. The environmental movement globally wants to move away from putting all the emphasis on individual responsibility and concentrate on tackling the problem at source. That is why we are fixated and interested in keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Professor FitzGerald is right in saying there is an issue of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I take that point. It was also slightly unclear. It was as unclear as the other one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Perhaps the committee could make a call to the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform to inform them that there is a lack of transparency in Government spending.