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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: We will just stay in our cars.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Why are we doing it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: One quarter of new housing is in the counties surrounding Dublin. We have just widened the N7 between Naas and Newbridge and straight away it was clogged. There is no benefit to anyone. How much did that cost? Was it €400 million or €500 million? I want to ask the Department to come back in. It is depressing me beyond belief. It is not just about climate or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Professor Morgenroth is correct. It is the unintended consequences of a good intention. The good intention in Dublin was to get people out of the slums. We did that by bringing them out to Drimnagh, Fairview and all these fantastic garden city estates where one could still walk and cycle into town. It was brilliant and it worked. As it worked, we did not stop. Then we went out to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: How does one answer the criticisms by the UN special rapporteur on European biofuels policy that the massive expansion in bioethanol use presents similar land-use risks and knock-on impacts in Africa and elsewhere? The substitution effect of taking crops from food for transport fuels would be significant if we went with the suggestion Mr. Cogan is talking about. According to the rapporteur,...
- An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I commend Deputy Harty on introducing this Bill which the Green Party is supporting. The primary reason for that is because we do want to see the implementation of Sláintecare and we see this Bill as a step towards achieving that objective. I am following UK politics at present and it seems that one of the few things that can be agreed upon over there is the huge achievement of...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (26 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: 404. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority checks the compliance of cycling infrastructure schemes which it funds with the national cycle manual and the design manual for urban roads and streets. [48534/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (26 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: 405. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority has overseen the design of the proposed Broadmeadow greenway and checked it for compliance with the national cycle manual. [48535/19]
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: How many officials are working in the climate change section of the Department?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: It is fortuitous that this is following the discussion on our just transition Bill. The officials made clear that the backup secretariat for the new commissioner will be in the Department. I expressed a fear that given the Department's massive challenges in so many areas, including broadcasting, communications, energy and climate change in its own right, even if it is a stopgap measure...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: Is the Minister confident that NESC will be able to deliver the just transition review? Under the climate action plan it is due by the end of this year, which is three or four weeks away.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: With regard to the meeting on the midlands we had last week with trade unions and other groups, there was a clear desire to have access to the Workplace Relations Commission, not necessarily to look at industrial relations but to have a location where a variety of stakeholders can be brought in. The plan for the midlands must be integrated. It must look at a range of connected issues,...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: The Minister in making the case in many ways for our Bill and I hope the Government will row in behind it to provide exactly that holistic experience and skill resources. Our Bill will not be legislated any time soon. Mr. Mulvey will not be in place until the new year.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: We heard at the previous meeting that he was not yet in place.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: What Patricia King is arguing, and it is commendable and makes sense, is that this is an urgent issue in the midlands, that the local people are losing confidence, as are the workforce, and that the current mechanisms are not working. The joint industrial relations mechanisms may suffice for some of the particular industrial relations issues but, as the Minister says, it is much bigger and...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019) Eamon Ryan: I will leave it at that and hope that is possible to use that in the interim, while we await the passage of our Bill. In the meantime, I am happy to support the Supplementary Estimate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I should declare that I worked with Mr. Tuohy when he was Secretary General when I became Minister. I hope he will not mind me reminding him that on my first day in office he handed me a box set of "Yes Minister" and recommended I watch it, which was very good advice. I feel like giving him a box set of "The Sopranos" or "Game of Thrones". I am not too sure which, because he is going into...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: It was lashing rain as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I think EirGrid should do that, and that it should go for it now. I worked in this area when I was not a Deputy and I know that Brussels is ready and waiting to do further funding, and it is our big project to add to a European climate response. We have to work on the UK Government on it as well because it is critical. We must work east-west as much as North-South. When does Mr. Tuohy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)
Eamon Ryan: If we do not build that quickly, I believe they will end up building another interconnector to Scotland and we may see the break-up of the all-Ireland market, which would be a tragedy. My presumption is that EirGrid would own the interconnector and I presume it would own a half share with the French transmission operator of the interconnector with France. Given those circumstances, where...