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

Eamon Ryan: It is a reasonable assumption that if we were to really go for this, restore nature, improve flood protection and prevent against further climate damage, we could save our country approximately €800 million per year in fines or credits we would have to purchase under our Paris climate obligations.

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

Eamon Ryan: One of the recommendations of this committee was the creation of a national land-use plan. While the Government did not include that in its all-of-Government climate action plan, it advocated a mapping exercise. Whether that is a land-use plan is a question of semantics. What Dr. Renou-Wilson has said today makes the case again for a land-use plan to recognise, as she says, that certain...

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

Eamon Ryan: This has been a very significant session. We have spent weeks and months talking about savings that might give us 50 tonnes there or a couple of hundred thousand tonnes there. Here we have 11 million tonnes that would provide the country with a gain of €800 million. I hate to say, however, that from what we heard from the Department, nothing is happening at any scale. That is of...

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The scariest votes I ever cast, and perhaps others had the same experience, were in local authorities because in those votes, I was often voting with a constituent sitting right behind me and I had to raise a hand - yes or no - on some issue of local importance. I was aware some of the people behind me who did not want me to cast my vote a certain way but it taught me a real lesson that...

Death of Mr. Gay Byrne: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I was a sucker for Gay Byrne's broadcasting skills. Every Christmas, his radio show would go to someone's kitchen. "Trick" would be the wrong word to use about it. Mrs Murphy would be asked where her son was and say, "He is in Australia, God bless him. I miss him." Before we knew it, Paddy the son would walk through the door and we would be crying having had our heart strings pulled so...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To add to Deputy Howlin's comments, it is not just a cumbersome process. The Government, in the way it has abused this provision in the Constitution, is in a sense going against the spirit, if not the letter, of the Constitution. A Cheann Comhairle, will you share with other Members the legal advice you received last Friday? It would help to inform us. I agree with others that we should...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the marine planning and development management Bill. [41989/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 795. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide copies of each boat licence granted for fisheries and the historic tracks of vessels when dredging for seed since 18 September 2019, in view of the ongoing wild mussel seed dredging in accordance with SI No. 464 of 2019, Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Mussel Seed) (Opening of Fisheries) Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the economic contribution that mussel seed dredging and mussel bottom grown aquaculture play in the economy; the gross and net weight tonnage processed in 2018; the tonnage exported live; and the countries to which they were exported. [44602/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is research funded or used by his Department on mussel seed and bed ecosystem services, especially the role that mussel seed and mussels beds play in supporting fish stocks; and if so, if the research is taken into account in deciding on the opening or closing of a particular seed mussel site. [44603/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 1: The Evidence (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank our guests. We might agree that political micro targeting can be dealt with by national legislatures but that is only one aspect of a very complex problem. If we look more deeply at the business model, given that Dr. Ryan, Dr. Lillington and Mr. McNamee all advocated going to the source of the problem, the main question, if we can get agreement today, is where the governance is and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How would Mr. Pancini answer the point made by Mr. Balsillie? We heard it yesterday when we were deciding on a workshop on this entire issue. Extensively, leading academics and researchers in the area agreed that the basic business model here is the core of the problem we face. I refer to the use of algorithms seeking to attract attention. I see it with YouTube in that one is immediately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask another question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Pancini is Italian. I refer to the atmosphere for public debate. The town hall debate in Italy changed in the past ten or 20 years. Has it become more or less civil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Most politicians have a sense that the world has become more divisive and polarised. The reason for a large part of that is because the business models of the social networks are driving divisive communications. Does Mr. Pancini refute that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When I am putting in a selection for YouTube, is what was said earlier true, namely, that in terms of the activities I carry out in a range of other areas, including how I use my credit card, Google knows more than I know about myself? Is it true that all that data is used to influence the videos that are put in my feed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will put the same question to Dr. Bickert. She has been focus of all the questioning because Facebook is probably the most toxic political platform. Our Georgian colleague invited her to visit Georgia. I would invite her to visit my Facebook page and see the nature of the commentary that is increasingly prevalent on the platform. It is not a community, it is war. For whatever reason,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 3: The State of Play in Regulation (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Ms Dixon. She put very well some of the concerns a number of people have articulated about the business model when she said in her testimony, "All of this may happen without the user being aware his or her own data are being deployed to reinforce the individual's existing viewpoint rather than the individual being in a position to take an objectively formed stance based on an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 3: The State of Play in Regulation (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for Mr. Cesarini. On that issue, if the GDPR directive does not sufficiently address some of the underlying principles or approach in the business model, is the European Commission looking at how the e-commerce directive might provide further support if there is a desire within the European Parliament and Council for that sort of approach? This spring the Spanish data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 4: International Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We need to distinguish between the worldwide web which, in my mind, has a basic structure that is holding up and the platforms which are using it, in respect of which there is a governance gap. Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Foundation have a very good insight into how that is happening. Our key question is where is the governance and how do we secure collaboration on it. Mr. Lovett has said...