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

Eamon Ryan: I fully agree with Mr. Boland that this has to be community-centred. It is estimated there are 20,000 jobs in retrofitting. I think there will be a similar number of jobs in re-wetting bogs, which Bord na Móna workers have real skills in. There may be a similar number of jobs in forestry. Going back to what I was saying earlier on, we are doing none of the training for this. We have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Will the legislation be in place before an election?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: A successful meeting of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and 'Fake News' was held in the Oireachtas last week. It was attended by representatives of parliaments from several other countries and by global experts on the serious issue of the effects of social media on political debate. There was a great deal of debate on the merits or otherwise of political advertising,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is impossible to know what will happen with Brexit, but the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is probably somewhat lower now than it was on budget day, though it will depend on what happens in the UK election. Will the Minister give the committee an update on the provisions that were made in the budget for a Brexit contingency fund? Given that there has not yet been a deal, I assume the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I was aware of the OECD report and the potential developments arising from it. Our reputation will be best served by supporting and agreeing to the OECD setting a minimum corporate tax rate and, even if it is higher than the current 12.5% rate, it is our duty as a responsible country. In Europe, €1 trillion is lost through tax avoidance measures, so we need to support such a move....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On the reporting issue, I raised a local issue in our hearings with the ESB to give an example. In 2009, there was a leak in the Dodder Valley area. I classify this area as a sensitive environmental habitat. It is in my constituency but it is an important urban river. During an earlier hearing, I asked Mr. Paddy Hayes whether the ESB had contacted the EPA and he said it had not. He said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Seamus O'Loughlin referred to the 2003 groundwater directive in his evidence. Was he correct in referring to that directive as having implications where there is leakage from such a cable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: With regard to SF6, my ears pricked up when I heard the following sentence from Dr. Ryan's presentation: ...management and control of SF6at the Moneypoint site is operationally rather than environmentally focused, with sustained and prolonged leaks from equipment within the ESB Networks compound. That is a remarkable statement from the EPA about one of our largest utilities, a company...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is not our role to be judge and jury. I welcome and support the independence and rigour of the EPA. What we have heard today backs up and validates what Mr. Seamus O'Loughlin said to the committee. As Deputy Dooley says, it is further justification of the good work that RTÉ did, in presenting some of his analysis. It is a dark day for the ESB, for a company which needs to have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 1: The Evidence (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank our guests. We might agree that political micro targeting can be dealt with by national legislatures but that is only one aspect of a very complex problem. If we look more deeply at the business model, given that Dr. Ryan, Dr. Lillington and Mr. McNamee all advocated going to the source of the problem, the main question, if we can get agreement today, is where the governance is and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How would Mr. Pancini answer the point made by Mr. Balsillie? We heard it yesterday when we were deciding on a workshop on this entire issue. Extensively, leading academics and researchers in the area agreed that the basic business model here is the core of the problem we face. I refer to the use of algorithms seeking to attract attention. I see it with YouTube in that one is immediately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask another question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Pancini is Italian. I refer to the atmosphere for public debate. The town hall debate in Italy changed in the past ten or 20 years. Has it become more or less civil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Most politicians have a sense that the world has become more divisive and polarised. The reason for a large part of that is because the business models of the social networks are driving divisive communications. Does Mr. Pancini refute that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When I am putting in a selection for YouTube, is what was said earlier true, namely, that in terms of the activities I carry out in a range of other areas, including how I use my credit card, Google knows more than I know about myself? Is it true that all that data is used to influence the videos that are put in my feed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will put the same question to Dr. Bickert. She has been focus of all the questioning because Facebook is probably the most toxic political platform. Our Georgian colleague invited her to visit Georgia. I would invite her to visit my Facebook page and see the nature of the commentary that is increasingly prevalent on the platform. It is not a community, it is war. For whatever reason,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 3: The State of Play in Regulation (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Ms Dixon. She put very well some of the concerns a number of people have articulated about the business model when she said in her testimony, "All of this may happen without the user being aware his or her own data are being deployed to reinforce the individual's existing viewpoint rather than the individual being in a position to take an objectively formed stance based on an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 3: The State of Play in Regulation (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for Mr. Cesarini. On that issue, if the GDPR directive does not sufficiently address some of the underlying principles or approach in the business model, is the European Commission looking at how the e-commerce directive might provide further support if there is a desire within the European Parliament and Council for that sort of approach? This spring the Spanish data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 4: International Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We need to distinguish between the worldwide web which, in my mind, has a basic structure that is holding up and the platforms which are using it, in respect of which there is a governance gap. Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Foundation have a very good insight into how that is happening. Our key question is where is the governance and how do we secure collaboration on it. Mr. Lovett has said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 4: International Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for Ms Kerr. It is a sad day for Irish media, with job losses having been announced at the national public broadcaster. I thought her contribution was very important as we have been thinking about the business model. Is it data harvesting to fund advertising or is it a paid subscription model? That is not, however, the whole picture because, as Ms Kerr says, everyone has...