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

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for Ms Kerr. It is a sad day for Irish media, with job losses having been announced at the national public broadcaster. I thought her contribution was very important as we have been thinking about the business model. Is it data harvesting to fund advertising or is it a paid subscription model? That is not, however, the whole picture because, as Ms Kerr says, everyone has...

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

Eamon Ryan: Yesterday, we heard a great deal about the duty of care process approach. I understand that informed the UK Government's White Paper on harmful content. I expect Professor Woods worked with the UK Government on that. Was there any indication from the outgoing UK Government that were it to return to office, it would continue with the approach set out in the White Paper? Is it agreed?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 5: Future Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree. We have done very good work today and yesterday. It has been very informative. We set ourselves the ambitious target of answering where is the point for international collaboration. As the Chair says, there are myriad different possible points but none is immediately achievable. To cite our experience in the referendum, which our Singaporean colleagues cited several times,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 5: Future Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not want to complicate things by throwing up questions but there is a very serious question, namely, what is political advertising. Whether it is a company such as Twitter, which takes a certain stance and has to answer that question, or whether someone takes a different view, I do not think we were able to answer that here. Some of the various collaborative measures we have seen and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 5: Future Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We have been chatting to each other and the US Congressman has brought a huge bank of wisdom and work in this area. For our next meeting, it would be perfect if the Houses of Congress were able to host us. The meeting would have to build on the three we have held to date. Given the timeline of our meetings to date, it would be hugely positive if the Houses of Congress were able to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: A successful meeting of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and 'Fake News' was held in the Oireachtas last week. It was attended by representatives of parliaments from several other countries and by global experts on the serious issue of the effects of social media on political debate. There was a great deal of debate on the merits or otherwise of political advertising,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Will the legislation be in place before an election?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is impossible to know what will happen with Brexit, but the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is probably somewhat lower now than it was on budget day, though it will depend on what happens in the UK election. Will the Minister give the committee an update on the provisions that were made in the budget for a Brexit contingency fund? Given that there has not yet been a deal, I assume the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I was aware of the OECD report and the potential developments arising from it. Our reputation will be best served by supporting and agreeing to the OECD setting a minimum corporate tax rate and, even if it is higher than the current 12.5% rate, it is our duty as a responsible country. In Europe, €1 trillion is lost through tax avoidance measures, so we need to support such a move....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On the reporting issue, I raised a local issue in our hearings with the ESB to give an example. In 2009, there was a leak in the Dodder Valley area. I classify this area as a sensitive environmental habitat. It is in my constituency but it is an important urban river. During an earlier hearing, I asked Mr. Paddy Hayes whether the ESB had contacted the EPA and he said it had not. He said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Seamus O'Loughlin referred to the 2003 groundwater directive in his evidence. Was he correct in referring to that directive as having implications where there is leakage from such a cable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: With regard to SF6, my ears pricked up when I heard the following sentence from Dr. Ryan's presentation: ...management and control of SF6at the Moneypoint site is operationally rather than environmentally focused, with sustained and prolonged leaks from equipment within the ESB Networks compound. That is a remarkable statement from the EPA about one of our largest utilities, a company...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is not our role to be judge and jury. I welcome and support the independence and rigour of the EPA. What we have heard today backs up and validates what Mr. Seamus O'Loughlin said to the committee. As Deputy Dooley says, it is further justification of the good work that RTÉ did, in presenting some of his analysis. It is a dark day for the ESB, for a company which needs to have the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not know if the Taoiseach saw the appearance of Blindboy from the Rubberbandits on "The Late Late Show" about two weeks ago. He put it brilliantly when it comes to climate change. He answered the question that was put, "Why should we do anything in Ireland because we are only a small country?" He said that whatever about our carbon footprint, our cultural footprint is enormous. As a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Tell me about the M11. Tell me why that is being widened.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I always have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In his next response, will the Taoiseach answer the question? What is the transport logic of widening the road, not bypassing but running through the Glen of the Downs? Where is that traffic going to go? How is that going to serve the long-distance commuters, who are only going to get stuck in more traffic as they come into Dublin? The Taoiseach is a former Minister for Transport,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To follow up with on Senator Hackett was saying, and anyone could answer this, I do not know if anyone saw the presentation here two weeks ago in advance of this meeting on the issue of peatlands re-wetting. Did anyone see the presentation made about that? An academic from UCD, Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson made, to my mind, a brilliant, really significant submission showing that peatland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I fully agree with Mr. Boland that this has to be community-centred. It is estimated there are 20,000 jobs in retrofitting. I think there will be a similar number of jobs in re-wetting bogs, which Bord na Móna workers have real skills in. There may be a similar number of jobs in forestry. Going back to what I was saying earlier on, we are doing none of the training for this. We have...

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Approximately ten years ago I was involved in the drafting of the Broadcasting Act. There was a great awareness then that there was an issue with the television licence fee collection system and the public service broadcasting funding model. Even then, people watching on devices rather than television was an issue, there a significant evasion rate and high collection costs in an incredibly...