Results 17,441-17,460 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: What the Deputy is doing is what I think will be done in the future. Rather than always providing for park and rail, bike and rail has massive potential. In other countries, such as Holland, thousands of bikes are parked outside railway stations daily. The benefit of that includes saving the land that would have been used as a car park to build housing beside the railway station; people...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: Coming back to Shannon Airport and the investment there, I told Pádraig Ó Céidigh recently when starting in his new position that, first things first, we should invest in low-carbon solutions for the airport. As part of that, it would take time and money to open a rail line from either Cratloe or Sixmilebridge to Shannon. It has potential but it also has complications and...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: I will give the Chairman a challenge; I am going on a complete flyer in this regard.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: When we leave this meeting, let us go out onto the Plinth and count the number of bikes. I bet the Chairman there are as many bikes outside Leinster House as there are cars.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: I will count them with the Chairman.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: It is no problem; I will not be cycling.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: I will have to do something similar to what the Deputy did. Unfortunately, I will have to leg it shortly because I am due in Clondalkin at 4.30 p.m.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: I will come back to the Deputy directly with some of the answers.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021) Eamon Ryan: Likewise.
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: I may not take the full amount of time allocated to me. I wish to repeat what I said at Cabinet yesterday, if that is not a problem in the context of constitutional difficulties.
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: What I said at Cabinet-----
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: I will say the exact same thing, which is that this Government is working well. In the past month, it has been working well, such as in its management of the pandemic. We all admit there were mistakes and terrible losses but, by any international yardstick, we have managed the pandemic as a people and as a country, and the Government is part of that. However, we now have to come out of the...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: Yes. Part of it is standing up for taxation. The spending rule is a net rule. We absolutely want to increase current spending further, but it should be funded through taxation. My colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, has a €100 million budget for the circular economy, which is critical to where our country goes next. He has a quarter of a billion to deliver the...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: There are 8,000 ha of zoned land which are sitting there at the moment, with land hoarding being the biggest cause of the housing crisis we are in. At last, we have the measure and we are delivering what we have been talking about for decades in our party.
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: We have introduced a zoned land tax. This ensures it is not the landlords who are dictating and determining housing policy; it is the public good. It is not a revenue-raising measure. It will not raise a lot, but what is important is the signal it gives, the heat it will take out of land speculation and the changes it will make. It will give local government the powers to start making...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (12 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: The National Development Plan 2021-2030 sets out a €12.9 billion indicative allocation for my Department which underpins our commitment to achieving a climate neutral, sustainable, and digitally connected Ireland. The trebling of the Department’s budget reflects the significant scale of ambition and pace set for delivery of Ireland’s response to climate change. In...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (12 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action Plan and Programme for Government set highly ambitious targets for the number and depth of retrofits to be completed by 2030. A new National Retrofit Plan to be published shortly will detail the Government’s approach to meeting these targets and will address barriers to retrofit across four key areas: driving demand and activity; financing and affordability; supply...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (12 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government and the Climate Action Plan set ambitious targets to retrofit 500,000 homes to a Building Energy Rating of B2 or cost optimal and to install 400,000 heat pumps in existing buildings over the next 10 years. A new National Retrofit Plan will be published in quarter 4 of this year. The plan is designed to address barriers to energy efficiency investments in...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Quality (12 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: Local Authorities will be responsible for enforcing the provisions of the new enhanced solid fuel regulations within their functional areas, and will have significant powers available to enable them do so effectively. The Programme for Government also includes a commitment to develop a regional approach to air quality enforcement and an increase in multi-agency operations in order to clamp...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (12 Oct 2021)
Eamon Ryan: The issues raised by the Deputy are operational matters for the Environmental Protection Agency as part of its environmental licensing functions under the EPA Act 1992. They are not matters in which I, as Minister, have a function.