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

Eamon Ryan: It is like Copenhagen and it is the same coming into Rathmines. There are more cyclists than there are cars.

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

Eamon Ryan: I agree fully. I am slightly concerned with the idea that a cycling officer in a council would necessarily overcome the multiagency fragmentation in decision-making.

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

Eamon Ryan: I want to flag the numbers. There are an equal number of cars and bikes outside on Kildare Street. I counted them.

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

Eamon Ryan: If one includes the six members of the cycling campaigns who came here today that makes it 50-50. I wanted to share information on the normalisation of cycling that is happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: One of the recommendations in the Cassells report was that by 2021 there would be a €600 million per annum increase in the core funding for the third level sector in comparison to 2015 levels. I realise there are many different ways one could look at this, but can the Minister of State give an indication of how we are measuring against that recommendation? What is her estimate today...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is three or four years since the completion of the Cassells report. Is this new study just starting again, in a sense? It is to examine the three funding options set out in the Cassells report, which are full State funding, increased State funding with continuing fees and income contingent loans. In the interim four-year period, has the Government formed a view on which of the three...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is increased funding from the taxpayer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is more than three years since the Cassells report was presented to the House and we have yet to make a decision on how we properly fund third level education, particularly in light of increasing demographic pressures. Since I tabled the question, the Minister has announced the successful tendering for an economic study of the three options set out in the Cassells. I welcome that, even...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The programme for Government indicates that the Government supports the introduction of cost-rental housing, which is a critical element in tackling the most acute form of housing crisis that we have, namely, that in the rental sector. It brings down the cost of market rents and provides housing for all our people. The Minister is refusing outright to consider that at the O'Devaney Gardens...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is tiny.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is going nowhere.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The event held here last Friday, the Youth Assembly on climate change, was a great success and it presented the Government with a set of projects that it believes this House should progress. The Business Committee met last Thursday so obviously we have not had time to discuss it, but is it planned to have a debate in response to the proposals from the Youth Assembly?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Perhaps it could be.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (19 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 348. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the minutes from the meetings of the fluorine consultative council 1957. [47200/19]

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Approximately ten years ago I was involved in the drafting of the Broadcasting Act. There was a great awareness then that there was an issue with the television licence fee collection system and the public service broadcasting funding model. Even then, people watching on devices rather than television was an issue, there a significant evasion rate and high collection costs in an incredibly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Tell me about the M11. Tell me why that is being widened.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I always have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In his next response, will the Taoiseach answer the question? What is the transport logic of widening the road, not bypassing but running through the Glen of the Downs? Where is that traffic going to go? How is that going to serve the long-distance commuters, who are only going to get stuck in more traffic as they come into Dublin? The Taoiseach is a former Minister for Transport,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not know if the Taoiseach saw the appearance of Blindboy from the Rubberbandits on "The Late Late Show" about two weeks ago. He put it brilliantly when it comes to climate change. He answered the question that was put, "Why should we do anything in Ireland because we are only a small country?" He said that whatever about our carbon footprint, our cultural footprint is enormous. As a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To follow up with on Senator Hackett was saying, and anyone could answer this, I do not know if anyone saw the presentation here two weeks ago in advance of this meeting on the issue of peatlands re-wetting. Did anyone see the presentation made about that? An academic from UCD, Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson made, to my mind, a brilliant, really significant submission showing that peatland...