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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (19 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: My intention is to legislate for e-scooters in accordance with the Programme for Government this year. This involves identifying and developing appropriate amendments to primary legislation across a range of complex areas. The work is being carried out in such a way so that it does not undermine the overall framework of Road Traffic law or road safety in general. Department officials are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: As a Member for Dublin Bay South, I know exactly what the Deputy is saying about the scale and depth of this crisis. It is without doubt an issue all over the country. It is at its most acute in the centre of Dublin, however. I can see the dilemma in my own constituency, particularly for a new younger generation. We will not leave them behind, we will not leave them out, and we will do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I listened to the Deputy. I hear those stories every day and they belong to every party, constituency and political viewpoint. They do not belong to any one person. These things are happening, in particular, in some of the areas where the prices are highest, including in my own constituency. I listen to what is happening and I heed it. It is our first priority to provide for our younger...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We will not give over this city. It does not belong to any investor or fund. It belongs to the people of this city and this country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is through our public land that we will deliver the housing we need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We have to make housing affordable. That is agreed and it is achieved by doing. There is a variety of different investments we have to make. We need to make significant investment in social housing at volume and at scale. That involves large numbers and huge amounts of money. The constraints in that regard are often not necessarily about the financing but getting the building workers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We need that balance and mix. We will bring the mix towards affordable purchase and rental in particular because that is what we have been focused on in recent years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We 100% stand up for the aspiration of purchasing apartments in our cities and right across the country. Apartments are part of city living and urban compact living. We 100% stand up for and support that and we did so in government this week. We got agreement with our colleagues that we will come back to this issue in the affordable housing Bill and look at further measures, as the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is not just about the housing but also all the other services that come with that at the same time. That is what we as a party are good at.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Following on from the previous question, there is a lot of emphasis on urban Ireland because of the issue of apartment living. We must be very clear that in the changes we need to make, it is about rural and urban. It is about towns and villages, country and city. This is particularly the case with meeting the climate change challenges we face where we need a switch to public transport and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I met some of those County Galway private bus operators last summer and the Deputy is absolutely right that they run a first-class service. The really annoying thing is that just before Covid struck they were actually seeing a massive expansion in their services. They were looking at new routes like east-west, north-south and a whole range of different ones. They were finding that as soon...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with pretty much every one of the Deputy's comments about getting the balance right. We need to provide housing for young people and it must be close to the city centre, of high quality and in large numbers. The strategic housing development approach will not continue after early next year. It will be wound down and it will mean we will, correctly, have to rely on our councils to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: All of the SHDs may not go ahead. There are legal challenges and questions about some of them, and I understand many of those challenges have been successful. Within the provisions there is a "use it or lose it" clause for them to be built by a certain time. There is an underlying problem in our city with the cost of construction and the viability of it and the ability an affordable option...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: That is where we must work as well as here. The practical measures must include what the councils can do through local development plans. We will back this up and support the process as best we can with the likes of investment in public transport and other measures.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I join in Deputy Doherty's concern for those households where people's homes have such a fundamental problem. I introduced a scheme in June last year. As I understand it, there are differences between what happened to properties on the east coast and what happened in the Donegal and Mayo areas. I do not have the details, but it appears to be a much more extensive problem, with higher costs...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for a slightly longer time to respond to this question, because it is an important issue, and to give me a bit of time to explain. A lot of people are concerned.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I very much appreciated the meeting we had yesterday where Deputy Kelly and other Deputies were briefed by An Garda Síochána on the cybersecurity system issue, which is of huge consequence for our health system, for individuals and for families. Subsequent to yesterday's meeting, the Minister for Justice, the Minister for Health and I had a meeting yesterday afternoon. We took up...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Yes is the answer to that. We have engaged constantly since last Friday morning. There is a whole range of different issues of real concern. Absolutely centre stage in that is Tusla and its information systems that were connected to the HSE networks. To go further in response to Deputy Kelly, our second measure is to contact our media and social media companies to say that if anyone...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Smith is right that one can do things. It is one of the reasons that in government I was very proud, as a member of the European Council, to put real pressure on the European Commission in recent weeks to change the EU taxonomy rules away from favouring investment in gas systems, recognising that we must keep that gas in the ground, and keep the oil and coal in the ground, if we are...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: -----which we are actually doing. This is the change we can make, so we will not need LNG.