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

Eamon Ryan: I will be very brief. My second question relates to land use. Professor FitzGerald referred to 40 years of agricultural economics. As he stated, it is really difficult for us to change habits. This committee recommended in its report the merits of a national land use plan, not just in respect of farming but also the restoration of peatlands, and the importance of that in respect to flood...

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

Eamon Ryan: Did I hear Professor FitzGerald correctly? Is his recommendation that peat plants should be shut in 2020?

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

Eamon Ryan: Straight away. What are the most recent figures for our emissions? Are they increasing or decreasing?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (17 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of additional provision made for student accommodation in budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42595/19]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister says this PCI is in our common interests. I believe it is not. It does provide for advance planning of any project. The Minister says it has already received planning planning, but this is far from certain. Putting it through a further planning process would not be appropriate. The Minister says he will not support the provision of finance for it, but we do not know what the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure the political views expressed by thousands of young persons in recent months who have marched and protested on a range of issues but particularly the issue of climate action are engaged with and acted on, in view of the fact that one of the transformational goals of the strategy of her Department for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My question follows the major climate strikes by young people throughout the country, including on Merrion Square, outside Leinster House, where they addressed the House directly in saying they were not being listened to and that we were not protecting their future. Everything in the Government's strategy for children indicates that we have to hear their voices, particularly on decisions...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome all of the developments outlined by the Minister. It is welcome that this Chamber will be used as a setting for young people. As the Minister indicated, Dáil na nÓg and Comhairle na nÓg, when asked at their meetings what the key issue for them was, both agreed that climate change was at the top of their agenda. Will the Minister go further and give examples of how...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is welcome. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, has travelled throughout the country and held a series of public meetings, but he should have some specifically with younger people. If he were to do so, one hopes it might help to move the dial. During the recent climate march on Merrion Square I heard the anger among young people. There was...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings at the European Council on 17 and 18 October 2019. [43262/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My first question is to Mr. Lucas. Why has the national management plan for the network of blanket bog SACs not been established, as indicated in the national peatlands strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Blanket bog SACs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My question to Mr. Lucas is why that has not happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When does the Department intend to start?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Lucas agree with Dr. Renou-Wilson' statement that "Ireland could lock in ten times more carbon in the designated blanket bog network if only the management plan required by law under the habitats directive could be implemented for these rare ecosystems"? Why have we not implemented the habitats directive to provide for such a plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Lucas believe we are in breach of the habitats directive in this regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It seems to me that Mr. Lucas's Department has a lot of work to do. The presentation Dr. Renou-Wilson gave was the most inspiring, insightful, important and, at the same time, frightening I have heard given before the committee. I find her evidence absolutely incredible, in both senses of the word, in terms of the scale of both the problem we face and the opportunity we have. The problem...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree. I am speaking from memory when I say that extraction accounts for a little under half, or 5 million, of those 11 million tonnes. The remainder is from the drained bogs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Dr Renou-Wilson stated earlier it is not sufficient to stop peat extraction or to ban unsustainable use of peatlands. I assume from that statement that her best scientific advice and her experience on the international panel is that we should immediately cease all extraction of peat. That would be one way to immediately save 5 million tonnes per annum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Again, Dr. Renou-Wilson has international science on this. If were able to save 5 million of the remaining 6 million tonnes, as a certain amount is very difficult, that would be a total of 10 million tonnes a year. I assume that the price of carbon will be approximately €80 per tonne by 2030. That is what we will have as a carbon price in Ireland. Who knows what the international...