Results 19,001-19,020 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is at concept stage but is utterly deliverable and will be delivered. When the Ryder Cup comes, we want to be green and proud. It is a showcase to the world. If we do not have high-quality zero-carbon transport from Shannon to the course, we will not be providing a world-class facility. It is symbolic.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is utterly doable at low cost.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is complicated because active travel is a separate ratio. Maintenance is also not included. This is new capital investment. Much of the local and national roads investment is in the regular update.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Closer to that, yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Close to it.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I do not know if it is quite exactly that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is closer to 50:50 if active travel is taken out.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will be heading to Ennis tomorrow and I am hoping to get there in one shot in my little ID3. The Chairman's point is well made. We have to accelerate it. The Department will be publishing or finalising in the coming weeks to two months a full electric vehicle strategy on the best way to do it. We are working in particular with local authorities. We have to start looking at...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: On a policy level we will make sure competition exists. I believe petrol stations will have to switch over to cater for electric vehicles. I will detail my personal experience without promoting any one brand. Over the past year I have driven around the country a fair bit in an electric vehicle. Those stations with high-speed fast charging are out there and they are the ones I am using....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The real challenge, particularly with fast charging, is access to the grid. This is key. Getting the grid to these stations or moving stations to where the grid is strong is where we may go. When this scales up and when we have a large number of vehicles charging at high speed it will require significant grid capacity.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: In fairness to my predecessor, Deputy Richard Bruton, he started this by taking money from the climate fund to give to the ESB to invest in the high-speed charging network. It was slow at first. I met the Irish Petrol Retailers Association and told the retailers they needed to speed this up. I am glad to say they have done so over the past year.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I do not think our local authorities have acted fast enough. This will be part of the-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There was an open scheme for local authorities to apply for funding and only two-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I believe 28 local charging points have been put in place in Louth and Dublin. I said a year and a half ago when I came into office that I do not think we have been forward thinking enough in local authorities in particular.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: When this new policy comes out, and we do need a policy approach and I do not want to pre-empt it, it will work in co-operation with local authorities to look at innovative local solutions. One of the reasons I am going to Ennis is to speak to the council to see whether we can start working together on where we would put these charging points and how the local authority would help to roll...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Within the next two months.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The job of the Minister is never to be satisfied at the speed of the roll-out of anything. It is our job to kick everything on. From my experience, and I said this in opposition as well as in government, the team we have in place in the Department is world-class in terms of skills, composition and dedication. National Broadband Ireland is giving it full throttle. It is in its interests...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I certainly will go back to the Department and examine what the possibilities might be in that regard. Throughout the Covid pandemic, we have looked, on a number of occasions and in a variety of ways, at what we can do to help some of our airports, particularly Cork and Shannon. We looked in real detail at what can be done. Even though the Chairman's suggestion involves funding coming from...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: In European aviation terms, getting PSO routes requires showing complete market failure.