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Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (26 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...the following information specifically relating to County Kildare Kildare (Distribution System Operator) Status Project MW Export Capacity Type Connected Arthurstown, Kill, Co. Kildare 4.26 Land Fill Gas Connected Arthurstown, Kill, Co. Kildare 1.25 Land Fill Gas Connected Silliot Hill, Brownstown 1.255 Land Fill Gas Connected Arthurstown Landfill Phase 3 4.1 Land Fill Gas Pending...

Other Questions: National Spatial Strategy (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I encourage the Minister to include in her contribution on the national planning framework a look at land use strategy. In that regard, the potential exists to meet the objectives the Minister set in terms of employment and sustainable communities, to look at radical proposals taking both Coillte lands and Bord na Móna lands at scale and managing them in a different way, separating the...

Written Answers — Fishing Industry: Fishing Industry (18 Oct 2007)

Eamon Ryan: The designation of ports for the landing of specific fish species is necessary to satisfy EU requirements and also for the purpose of appropriate control of landings. Ireland's list of designated ports is designed to be a balance between the needs of the Industry and the level of resources which must be made available by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority at each designated port to...

Other Questions: Tax Collection (24 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Does the Minister agree with Mr. Justice John Kenny's 1973 report which said that the profits accruing from a public decision to rezone land rightly belong to the public rather than the developer? The report found that the lack of such a tax on the profits that accrue from a rezoning decision leads to a tendency to hoard land. Rather than being a disincentive for owners to dispose of land,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In June 2022, with work on the sectoral emissions ceilings almost complete, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its latest emissions projections, showing net Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) emissions as being projected to rise from 7 to 11 MtCO2eq. in 2030; and 2018 base year emissions having changed from 4.8 to 6.3 MtCO2eq. For this reason, it was decided at...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (21 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The process of converting a disused rail line into a greenway, depends largely on ownership of land along the rail line. If ownership of the land on the rail line is still with CIE, then a standard licence agreement applies. If the land is currently in private ownership, the Code of Best Practice applies. The Code of Best Practice which was published in December 2021, provides information...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Under the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation adopted in May 2018, EU Member States have to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions from the land use sector are offset by at least an equivalent removal of CO₂ from the sector for the period 2021 to 2030, based on defined benchmarks. This commitment is referred to as the "no debit rule". For example, if a Member...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 51 and 104 together. The Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation ((EU) 2018/841) will apply a new EU land-use accounting system for land-use from 2021. Under the new system, emissions and removals will be assessed over two consecutive accounting periods, the first from 2021 to 2025, and the second from 2026 to 2030. The impact of emissions...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Strategy, setting binding targets across the European Union to restore degraded ecosystems and, in particular, providing important co-benefits that include carbon emissions reductions from the land use sector, increased capacity for carbon sequestration, better climate adaptation and resilience, improved water quality and enhanced ecological health of our rivers, lakes, streams and marine...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1 Apr 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government outlined a commitment to evaluating the potential for contributions towards our climate ambition from land-use improvements and set in train the development of a land-use plan, based on its findings. This review will include farmland, forests and peatlands so that optimal land use options inform relevant government decisions. The review will balance environmental,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The main way we prevent it from happening is by working with the Land Development Agency, particularly on public lands or lands the State has an ability to influence. We go into the market. That is why I keep coming back to cost rental as a fundamental strategic change in what we are doing here, in that we go into the market and start providing affordable rent and affordable purchase in a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: .... Some €4 billion of that will come from the State and €8 billion from elsewhere. My job and my role, and what I want to do, comes back to what I said about Dublin Port: do we need all of the land with the expectation that it would double the amount of traffic in the port? I would say "No". We should take some of those pockets of land that are within walking distance of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (13 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) are reported in Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions inventory prepared by the Environmental Protections Agency (EPA) and submitted annually to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. LULUCF includes activities associated with forestry, croplands, grasslands,...

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...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The purpose of Section 46 is to provide a clear legislative power to acquire land for the purposes of certain mitigation measures that may not normally be regarded as traditional or usual mitigation measures. For instance, usual mitigation measures for which lands are compulsorily required of which has been accepted and for which there is very little legal debate include items such as new...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (22 Sep 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...substitute for other materials in construction and related sectors.   Specifically in relation to the carbon mitigation potential of forests, from 2021 onwards, emissions and removals from Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry will be integrated into the EU Framework for compliance with national emissions targets. Under EU legislation, Ireland will be able to use a limited...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (3 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) are reported in Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions inventory prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and submitted annually to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. LULUCF includes activities associated with forestry, croplands, grasslands,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (10 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Access to rivers on private lands is a matter for the landowner. While there is no general right of access, where the fishing rights appurtenant to the land are held by a third party (usually the State, an individual or an angling club), there is a right for such holder (or their assignees) to have reasonable access across private land to the fishery in order to exercise...

Written Answers — National Parks: National Parks (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Ryan: I have received a proposal from the North Midlands Peat lands Park Committee. The lands in question are vested in Bord na Móna plc under the Turf Development Act 1946. I am advised that the lands in question are still being fully utilised by Bord na Móna for the harvesting of milled peat and will be for the foreseeable future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...xe1;il today, one Deputy after another stood up to say that we had an agricultural crisis because it had been raining for several weeks in Kerry and people did not know where to put the slurry on their land. A real environmental biodiversity disaster as well as a climate disaster would be to just turn our land into an industrial production machine to produce grass and wood pulp for...