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Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I begin by thanking our researcher, Sinéad Mercier, who has done all the work on this Bill. She did a fantastic job on bringing together the thinking of our discussions with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and unions including SIPTU and Mandate, as well as local communities who have been engaged in really difficult transitions,...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We should not read too much into the fact that there were not banks of Members here: I did not expect them. One reason for this is that we are united in this House on a core point in this Brexit issue, namely, the core principle of what we stand for. When we all voted in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement, to remove of Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution, we were voting for a...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It will be something of a crossbred speech if I cannot give two minutes to Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and two minutes to Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: A very unusual creature.

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am happy to do that.

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In the brief few minutes I have, to follow the debate we had last night and the debate we are all having because this is critical for the entire country, urban and rural, I argued last night that we need a national land use plan. The Minister came back and stated that he cannot tell farmers what to do. I do not want to tell farmers what to do. We need farmers who are innovative and good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with that point. The Chairman was being slightly political earlier when looking in my direction he mentioned a future Government might not fund a road.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I got the distinct impression he was. I assure the committee that the first priority for the Green Party is the threat of air pollution to our children and looking after the environment. There is an environmental issue with regard to this project in that the original planning permission was, I would imagine, done under Part 8 in 2001. An Bord Pleanála decided to ignore the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is TII concerned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. The council has raised concerns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The council has raised concerns about the effect on a raised bog of the construction of a road through it. Is TII confident that if the road will go through the bog, TII is safe from appeals to Europe that it is in breach of the European habitats directive and a range of other environmental directives? Is the organisation concerned that 20 years on from the original plan the critical nature...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Did the result of the screening mean that, as part of this new Part 8 permission, on this occasion the council would include within it an environmental impact assessment to protect it against possible environmental challenge in Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The main concern was that access back to the town for local residents was catered for. Does the proposed or likely rerouting that TII might consider, or the change of junctions and so on, lead any redirection of the road away from the raised bog area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: N52 Ardee Bypass: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are 20 years on from the initial screening exercise and must consider protection of natural habitats, particularly the ongoing diminishment of habitats in contravention of annex 1 of the habitats directive. Did the screening process raise any new concerns regarding the risk to this scheme being in breach of European environmental directives? Was that raised when this new screening...

Offshore Islands: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I commend Deputy Connolly and support her motion and our islands. The key argument set out in the motion before us is accurate, particularly the reference to the ad hocnature of how we are managing and developing the islands. I am familiar with Inishbofin off the coast of Galway and may take that as an example. What the Minister and Government have stated is true - there have been real...

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have four short questions, which I will put together for the Minister. The first is a question on protected geographical indication, PGI. Does the Minister have any update for the House on whether there are any discussions with the European Commission or with the authorities? What is his projected timeline? Does he think it would be applied to a certain category of beef farmers or to...

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is not what a land use plan does.

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Austria has about 40% organic production.

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is fine.

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We face a real crisis. If we do not change our ways, we will see the demise of the family farm and the rise of an industrial farming model that will not serve our people, secure our future or benefit our society. I met a friend the other day who is a farmer in County Kerry. She cited a statistic - I do not know if is accurate but when I asked her to source it she said it came from Radio...