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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am sorry but if we cannot do CCS, then, in the context of the Paris Agreement, it is dead in the water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have a question to ask. I wish to notify the Chairman and the committee that the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment will host an International Grand Committee on Disinformation and Fake News on 7 November in the Seanad Chamber. The debate will be on how to get international collaboration in the regulation and governance of platforms and will also...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The joint committee has done a good job over the last year. One of the key recommendations on which all members agreed was the need to analyse how the introduction of any carbon tax could be progressive rather than regressive. That involved two requests which, unfortunately, were not met. The first was the carrying out of a fuel-poverty study by the Department of Finance, which did not...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: BusConnects is not even in planning; it is in consultation. Believe me, I have been to 15 or 20 consultation meetings. Those involved are the first to admit it is not even near going to planning. Where is the Navan rail corridor? It is gone. Where is the metro? It is not in planning. Perhaps in a few years' time we might think about starting to build something. As I have said, on the...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The budgetary process is important to long-term thinking about where we are going as a country. It starts with recognising that to have a secure long-term future and develop and progress as a country, we need a secure economy. We need to avoid what we saw happen in the 1980s and mid-2000s, a budget or financial crash which hinders our ability to do anything. As such, the first...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The horse has already bolted.

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When this project was originally put forward in 2008 it was not opposed. We lived in a completely different world then. It was in the middle of a Russia-Europe gas crisis when people across eastern Europe were freezing in their apartments after the gas supply had been cut off. Fracked gas was only in its infancy at the time and we did not have renewable power supplies at the cost...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the fact that the UK Government is moving towards regulatory alignment for agricultural and manufactured products in a possible Brexit deal, but we need other regulatory alignments. I cite the example of regulations for the environment, which knows no borders. Do we know whether regulatory alignment will apply to the likes of the habitats directive, the water framework directive...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is amazing that we are having this debate as Storm Lorenzo approaches the west coast of Ireland. Our thoughts are with my own friends in Lahinch, Galway, Inishbofin, Achill and many other places, north and south. The west coast is going to get a real hammering tomorrow and I pray that everybody there will be safe and that our homes will be secure. While there have been nights of the Big...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the US Vice President, Mr. Mike Pence. [38501/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is that US Vice President Pence thanked the Irish Government for the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by US army facilities in the movement of troops. The US Administration seems increasingly hostile to the European Union and, through Vice President Pence’s comments during his visit, it is clearly siding with a hard Brexit UK Government position. During his address to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a couple of technical questions for Mr. Fogarty, out of background interest. The two windmills his group is working on generate about 4.6 MW. What is the level of curtailment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is quite low.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That would help in a market where curtailment is up at 8% or 9%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is an advantage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Without prying into the financial details, was it Rabobank Ireland that lent Mr. Fogarty's group the money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What were the proportions of debt and equity? If the financing was €6 million or €7 million, was it 10% equity and 90% debt?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is about 15% or 20%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is not a matter of financing because even now, seven years later, interest rates are much lower and there is a wall of cash looking for somewhere to be spent. It is a bankable opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On providing a price on spill or export and so on, what should the price be?