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

Eamon Ryan: I will conclude on this point. As I said at our meeting with the local area education and training board and others last week, I believe we should be honest with people. By the middle of the next decade we will face fines of several hundred million euro a year as a result of changes in legislation with regard to how we account for peat. The likelihood of any form of horticultural peat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My apologies as I had to step out to attend another meeting. I remember a cycling campaigner called Mike Curtis who died on Merrion Square 30 years ago. It was one of the reasons that the Dublin Cycling Campaign was founded. I knew Harry Boland and his family; Harry died in Stillorgan last year. I met the colleagues of Neeraj Jain last week and his family. Both his and the Boland family...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Sometimes one thinks it is best not to talk about this because one fears that it might put people off cycling. As Dr. Ó Tuama has said, that latest health survey today shows that 60% of people are obese. Cycling-active travel every day is the best way of tackling that issue. As Mayer Hillman the great UK doctor and every analysis has shown, even with the high incidence of accidents,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: They are but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is exactly what we need to move towards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Liffey cycle route has been in planning for ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is the same with the Royal Canal. We have had reports, studies and analysis, and we have all gone off to Utrecht and looked at best practice, but yet we have singularly failed to make a change. We have bits and pieces. We have green flags at every school but the number of people cycling to school in particular has gone into freefall. There seems to be a correlation between having more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To go back to the first point Mr. Baker made, on people seeing the benefits, people are not blind. We upgraded the Grand Canal and it still has problems. The junction at Leeson Street is a mess. It was a good piece of infrastructure. Instantaneously, the volume of cyclists increased by 50%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is like Copenhagen and it is the same coming into Rathmines. There are more cyclists than there are cars.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree fully. I am slightly concerned with the idea that a cycling officer in a council would necessarily overcome the multiagency fragmentation in decision-making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I want to flag the numbers. There are an equal number of cars and bikes outside on Kildare Street. I counted them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If one includes the six members of the cycling campaigns who came here today that makes it 50-50. I wanted to share information on the normalisation of cycling that is happening.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I commend Deputy Harty on introducing this Bill which the Green Party is supporting. The primary reason for that is because we do want to see the implementation of Sláintecare and we see this Bill as a step towards achieving that objective. I am following UK politics at present and it seems that one of the few things that can be agreed upon over there is the huge achievement of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 404. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority checks the compliance of cycling infrastructure schemes which it funds with the national cycle manual and the design manual for urban roads and streets. [48534/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 405. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority has overseen the design of the proposed Broadmeadow greenway and checked it for compliance with the national cycle manual. [48535/19]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How many officials are working in the climate change section of the Department?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is fortuitous that this is following the discussion on our just transition Bill. The officials made clear that the backup secretariat for the new commissioner will be in the Department. I expressed a fear that given the Department's massive challenges in so many areas, including broadcasting, communications, energy and climate change in its own right, even if it is a stopgap measure...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is the Minister confident that NESC will be able to deliver the just transition review? Under the climate action plan it is due by the end of this year, which is three or four weeks away.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: With regard to the meeting on the midlands we had last week with trade unions and other groups, there was a clear desire to have access to the Workplace Relations Commission, not necessarily to look at industrial relations but to have a location where a variety of stakeholders can be brought in. The plan for the midlands must be integrated. It must look at a range of connected issues,...