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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We should invite in any other stakeholders. I really appreciate the Department of the trade unions coming in today. It has been a useful discussion.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I understand that a Department, Ministers and politicians must engage with stakeholders and be informed. However, that is not what we see in the emails released under a freedom of information request. I can give an example. There is an email from 8 May 2018 from the Department to Seamus Clancy of Repak. It states: "As you know the Minister is before the Oireachtas joint committee today to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This is a critical issue. What is at stake is that the polluter pays principle would apply. One could see in these documents which have been released, uncovered by Mr. Juno McEnroe in the Irish Examiner, Ms Lynn Boylan, a former MEP, and indeed Mr. Daniel Murray from The Sunday Business Post, that rather than the polluter pays, what we have had in the management of plastics in recent years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Ms King is absolutely right. ICTU and the unions have been involved in the climate issue in a positive way for much longer than many others. It is complicated. We have invited ICTU back next week for a separate meeting on legislative scrutiny of our just transition Bill that would set up a specialist mediation service designed to avoid what we are seeing happening here. However, that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What Ms King describes is similar to the intent of our Bill. In its absence, the WRC provides exactly that multi-stakeholder mediation service. That is why I support it. I attended a conference organised by ICTU in Tullamore some months ago. Congress presented analysis it had undertaken that there were potentially 20,000 jobs in retrofitting. The committee agrees this has to be done. At...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The likes of the multi-stakeholders one might have in the WRC might include educational institutions as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Action 110 in the whole-of-Government climate action plan relates to land use mapping. My understanding was the Department was due to hold a consultation with stakeholders on the matter by quarter 4 of 2020. I am interested in finding out how that is progressing, or is it one of the 15% of recommendations that have not yet been actioned? The €60 million in potential funding is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To clarify, do the bogs listed in the presentation equate to 55,000 ha?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is to be funded from €60 million from the PSO. There is not yet a figure, however, for the carbon saving from that specific piece of land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is Mr. Carroll's Department involved in the consultation process on the ending of horticultural peat extraction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will conclude on this point. As I said at our meeting with the local area education and training board and others last week, I believe we should be honest with people. By the middle of the next decade we will face fines of several hundred million euro a year as a result of changes in legislation with regard to how we account for peat. The likelihood of any form of horticultural peat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My apologies as I had to step out to attend another meeting. I remember a cycling campaigner called Mike Curtis who died on Merrion Square 30 years ago. It was one of the reasons that the Dublin Cycling Campaign was founded. I knew Harry Boland and his family; Harry died in Stillorgan last year. I met the colleagues of Neeraj Jain last week and his family. Both his and the Boland family...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Sometimes one thinks it is best not to talk about this because one fears that it might put people off cycling. As Dr. Ó Tuama has said, that latest health survey today shows that 60% of people are obese. Cycling-active travel every day is the best way of tackling that issue. As Mayer Hillman the great UK doctor and every analysis has shown, even with the high incidence of accidents,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: They are but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is exactly what we need to move towards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Liffey cycle route has been in planning for ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is the same with the Royal Canal. We have had reports, studies and analysis, and we have all gone off to Utrecht and looked at best practice, but yet we have singularly failed to make a change. We have bits and pieces. We have green flags at every school but the number of people cycling to school in particular has gone into freefall. There seems to be a correlation between having more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To go back to the first point Mr. Baker made, on people seeing the benefits, people are not blind. We upgraded the Grand Canal and it still has problems. The junction at Leeson Street is a mess. It was a good piece of infrastructure. Instantaneously, the volume of cyclists increased by 50%.