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

Eamon Ryan: Yesterday, we heard a great deal about the duty of care process approach. I understand that informed the UK Government's White Paper on harmful content. I expect Professor Woods worked with the UK Government on that. Was there any indication from the outgoing UK Government that were it to return to office, it would continue with the approach set out in the White Paper? Is it agreed?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 5: Future Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree. We have done very good work today and yesterday. It has been very informative. We set ourselves the ambitious target of answering where is the point for international collaboration. As the Chair says, there are myriad different possible points but none is immediately achievable. To cite our experience in the referendum, which our Singaporean colleagues cited several times,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 5: Future Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not want to complicate things by throwing up questions but there is a very serious question, namely, what is political advertising. Whether it is a company such as Twitter, which takes a certain stance and has to answer that question, or whether someone takes a different view, I do not think we were able to answer that here. Some of the various collaborative measures we have seen and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 5: Future Collaboration (7 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We have been chatting to each other and the US Congressman has brought a huge bank of wisdom and work in this area. For our next meeting, it would be perfect if the Houses of Congress were able to host us. The meeting would have to build on the three we have held to date. Given the timeline of our meetings to date, it would be hugely positive if the Houses of Congress were able to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To add to Deputy Howlin's comments, it is not just a cumbersome process. The Government, in the way it has abused this provision in the Constitution, is in a sense going against the spirit, if not the letter, of the Constitution. A Cheann Comhairle, will you share with other Members the legal advice you received last Friday? It would help to inform us. I agree with others that we should...

Death of Mr. Gay Byrne: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I was a sucker for Gay Byrne's broadcasting skills. Every Christmas, his radio show would go to someone's kitchen. "Trick" would be the wrong word to use about it. Mrs Murphy would be asked where her son was and say, "He is in Australia, God bless him. I miss him." Before we knew it, Paddy the son would walk through the door and we would be crying having had our heart strings pulled so...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the marine planning and development management Bill. [41989/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 795. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide copies of each boat licence granted for fisheries and the historic tracks of vessels when dredging for seed since 18 September 2019, in view of the ongoing wild mussel seed dredging in accordance with SI No. 464 of 2019, Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Mussel Seed) (Opening of Fisheries) Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the economic contribution that mussel seed dredging and mussel bottom grown aquaculture play in the economy; the gross and net weight tonnage processed in 2018; the tonnage exported live; and the countries to which they were exported. [44602/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (5 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is research funded or used by his Department on mussel seed and bed ecosystem services, especially the role that mussel seed and mussels beds play in supporting fish stocks; and if so, if the research is taken into account in deciding on the opening or closing of a particular seed mussel site. [44603/19]

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The scariest votes I ever cast, and perhaps others had the same experience, were in local authorities because in those votes, I was often voting with a constituent sitting right behind me and I had to raise a hand - yes or no - on some issue of local importance. I was aware some of the people behind me who did not want me to cast my vote a certain way but it taught me a real lesson that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings at the European Council on 17 and 18 October 2019. [43262/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My first question is to Mr. Lucas. Why has the national management plan for the network of blanket bog SACs not been established, as indicated in the national peatlands strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Blanket bog SACs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My question to Mr. Lucas is why that has not happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When does the Department intend to start?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Lucas agree with Dr. Renou-Wilson' statement that "Ireland could lock in ten times more carbon in the designated blanket bog network if only the management plan required by law under the habitats directive could be implemented for these rare ecosystems"? Why have we not implemented the habitats directive to provide for such a plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Lucas believe we are in breach of the habitats directive in this regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It seems to me that Mr. Lucas's Department has a lot of work to do. The presentation Dr. Renou-Wilson gave was the most inspiring, insightful, important and, at the same time, frightening I have heard given before the committee. I find her evidence absolutely incredible, in both senses of the word, in terms of the scale of both the problem we face and the opportunity we have. The problem...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree. I am speaking from memory when I say that extraction accounts for a little under half, or 5 million, of those 11 million tonnes. The remainder is from the drained bogs.