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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: Dialogue is key. The Oireachtas committee will have a role in that. We represent communities and can provide a forum where people can come in, on the record, to engage in the whole process. We also need to go beyond that and beyond the regional assemblies that have been set up so far, to much more local and detailed discussions on what this transition is going to look like. From my...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Programme for Government (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future sets out the Government's response to the significant challenges facing the country including the fallout from Covid-19, decarbonising our economy and creating a sustainable future for all. My Department is central to many of the transformative changes envisaged in the programme including climate action and the digital agenda. Programme...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: After years of working in this area, it is my assessment that we often focus on the technology, the wires, the hardware and the way one gets digital information moved from one place to the other. I believe that the key issue for success is in the use and actual behavioural side of it and in what ways the technology is used. The actual soft application side can be more important than the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: On the last point, I do not believe the contractual arrangements are agreed about the exact route network options that will be used. In opposition, and now in government, I have argued there is much strategic sense in using the ESB network in deploying some of this architecture, and that there is real benefit. There is an electricity wire going to every house in the country. That might...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: Often during Minister's questions, a Minister will respond by saying they will revert to the Deputy with further information. In this case, I will throw it back the other way and ask the Deputy if he will provide me with much more details about that officer in Meath County Council. If it is working well, it is something we could examine and support and ensure that every other council does...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I fully support increased climate ambition at EU level and welcome the publication of the EU climate law proposal, including the delivery of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions at EU level by 2050. The EU climate law is currently under negotiation in the Council, and the impact assessment to increase the EU 2030 climate ambition will be published this summer with a view to reaching...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: Those targets will probably not be ambitious enough. My sense from yesterday's European Council meeting is that there was a clear majority of Ministers representing a majority of states and population who were willing to look at a higher reduction target than 40% but a reduction of 50% to 55%. It has not been possible to get European Union agreement on it yet but I believe that it is close...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I hope to have it in September or October, whenever the 100-day limit is. It must come within that sort of timeframe. The benefit of that timeframe is that it will be in tune with the timing of the European climate legislation. It will also allow us to be in tune with the new national economic plan which has to incorporate the scale of change that brings. People have asked why the target...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy for his kind words. I look forward to working with him, hopefully in closer quarters when we return to the Dáil Chamber. The high-speed broadband map shows the areas in Cork East which will be included in the national broadband plan, as well as areas targeted by commercial operators. As I said earlier, the map is colour coded and searchable by address and Eircode....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I would be happy to do that. I agree with the Deputy's assessment that the establishment of digital hubs provides huge opportunities, particularly for Irish towns and villages, to restore commercial and retail life to the centre of our historic streets in our towns. In terms of an example, the Ludgate Hub in Skibbereen has shown how we can progress. There are other examples. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: One of the areas on which we can work together is the identification of premises that might be appropriate. Local authorities and community enterprise have a critical role in identifying premises for the creation of such digital hubs. By definition being wireless they can be located anywhere. The purpose of the national broadband plan is to bring connectivity to the individual house. For...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: It is vital that we ensure that community energy can play a role in reaching at least 70% renewable electricity, including a community benefit fund and a community category within the renewable electricity support scheme, RESS, auction; and that we aim to continue to work with the EU to agree community participation as an integral part of installing new renewable energy and a route for...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I send my thoughts to Deputy Cowen and his family. It is incredibly difficult when one loses office in the circumstances we witnessed last night. There are issues and questions again about how people's personal private data are revealed to the public and we have to look at that in a variety of different ways. Regardless of that matter, it is true what the Taoiseach said in that we in the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The High Speed Broadband Map, which is available at www.broadband.gov.ie, shows the areas in County Wexford which will be included in the National Broadband Plan (NBP) State led intervention as well as areas targeted by commercial operators. The map is colour coded and searchable by address and Eircode. - Premises in the AMBER area will be provided with high speed broadband through the State...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government sets out our ambition to more than halve our carbon emissions over the course of the decade. The action we take in the coming years will be critical in order to address the climate crisis, which threatens our safe future on this planet. As Minister for Climate Action, I will lead on delivering our shared commitment to achieve an average 7% per annum reduction in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future - contains a commitment to end the issuing of new licences for the exploration and extraction of gas on the same basis as the decision taken in 2019 by the previous Government in relation to oil exploration and extraction. I have made this commitment effective immediately: my Department is no longer accepting new applications for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The NBP network will offer users a high speed broadband service with a minimum download speed of 150Mbps from the outset. By the end of next year, NBI plans to pass in the region of 115,000 premises, with 70,000 - 100,000 passed each year thereafter until rollout is completed. All counties will see premises passed in the first 2 years and over 90% of premises in the State will have access to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: Under the NBP Contract, NBI is required to provide a pre-registration facility for members of the public on its website to enable them to register their interest in obtaining high speed broadband services so that they can automatically receive updates as and when the new high speed broadband network and associated products becomes available for specified premises. Given the scale of the NBP...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government sets out our ambition to more than halve our carbon emissions over the course of the decade. The action we take in the coming years will be critical in order to address the climate crisis, which threatens our safe future on this planet. As Minister for Climate Action, I will lead on delivering our shared commitment to achieve an average 7% per annum reduction...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 30, 39 and 40 together. The Programme for Government states that the Government does not support the importation of fracked gas and undertakes to develop a policy statement to establish this approach. My Department is working to develop a proposal to meet this objective which I will bring to Government for approval. The work that is underway includes...