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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The event held here last Friday, the Youth Assembly on climate change, was a great success and it presented the Government with a set of projects that it believes this House should progress. The Business Committee met last Thursday so obviously we have not had time to discuss it, but is it planned to have a debate in response to the proposals from the Youth Assembly?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Perhaps it could be.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The programme for Government indicates that the Government supports the introduction of cost-rental housing, which is a critical element in tackling the most acute form of housing crisis that we have, namely, that in the rental sector. It brings down the cost of market rents and provides housing for all our people. The Minister is refusing outright to consider that at the O'Devaney Gardens...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is tiny.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is going nowhere.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is more than three years since the Cassells report was presented to the House and we have yet to make a decision on how we properly fund third level education, particularly in light of increasing demographic pressures. Since I tabled the question, the Minister has announced the successful tendering for an economic study of the three options set out in the Cassells. I welcome that, even...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: One of the recommendations in the Cassells report was that by 2021 there would be a €600 million per annum increase in the core funding for the third level sector in comparison to 2015 levels. I realise there are many different ways one could look at this, but can the Minister of State give an indication of how we are measuring against that recommendation? What is her estimate today...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is three or four years since the completion of the Cassells report. Is this new study just starting again, in a sense? It is to examine the three funding options set out in the Cassells report, which are full State funding, increased State funding with continuing fees and income contingent loans. In the interim four-year period, has the Government formed a view on which of the three...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is increased funding from the taxpayer.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 348. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the minutes from the meetings of the fluorine consultative council 1957. [47200/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This is a critical issue. What is at stake is that the polluter pays principle would apply. One could see in these documents which have been released, uncovered by Mr. Juno McEnroe in the Irish Examiner, Ms Lynn Boylan, a former MEP, and indeed Mr. Daniel Murray from The Sunday Business Post, that rather than the polluter pays, what we have had in the management of plastics in recent years...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I understand that a Department, Ministers and politicians must engage with stakeholders and be informed. However, that is not what we see in the emails released under a freedom of information request. I can give an example. There is an email from 8 May 2018 from the Department to Seamus Clancy of Repak. It states: "As you know the Minister is before the Oireachtas joint committee today to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Ms King is absolutely right. ICTU and the unions have been involved in the climate issue in a positive way for much longer than many others. It is complicated. We have invited ICTU back next week for a separate meeting on legislative scrutiny of our just transition Bill that would set up a specialist mediation service designed to avoid what we are seeing happening here. However, that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What Ms King describes is similar to the intent of our Bill. In its absence, the WRC provides exactly that multi-stakeholder mediation service. That is why I support it. I attended a conference organised by ICTU in Tullamore some months ago. Congress presented analysis it had undertaken that there were potentially 20,000 jobs in retrofitting. The committee agrees this has to be done. At...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The likes of the multi-stakeholders one might have in the WRC might include educational institutions as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Action 110 in the whole-of-Government climate action plan relates to land use mapping. My understanding was the Department was due to hold a consultation with stakeholders on the matter by quarter 4 of 2020. I am interested in finding out how that is progressing, or is it one of the 15% of recommendations that have not yet been actioned? The €60 million in potential funding is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To clarify, do the bogs listed in the presentation equate to 55,000 ha?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is to be funded from €60 million from the PSO. There is not yet a figure, however, for the carbon saving from that specific piece of land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is Mr. Carroll's Department involved in the consultation process on the ending of horticultural peat extraction?