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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is incredible. Ms Lennon intimated that in respect of its current arrangement regarding the 340,000-area zone, Eir uses overhead wires where possible. If someone wants to ducting installed, he or she must pay the additional cost. Is it Ms Lennon's understanding that the NBI scheme also involves overhead wires or is there a higher percentage of ducting involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Why would it put in ducting given that the cost is so much higher?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In her presentation, Ms Lennon indicated that the other way it could be done was through a universal service obligation. That would be a policy direction from the State with ComReg setting out the basic rules. That would not breach EU competition rules. In a sense, that would give a wholesale monopoly or a continuing or extended monopoly to Eir.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This debate has been so public in the past few months and the committee has held various hearings. Ms Lennon says there is nothing new in this announcement that the plan could be rolled out for €1 billion. I do not know about other members of the committee but what we are hearing today - that this has not been more openly assessed - is remarkable given that it is a public debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: He will be up on the poles.

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are in a climate and biodiversity emergency. There is no doubt about that. As a country, we will rise to the challenge and we will be able to become leaders in our response, rather than the laggards we are at the moment, because this House reflects the will of the Irish people and they want to do it. I believe that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Communications,...

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Summer is here.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will revise the capital allocation in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 to take into account the new all of Government climate action plan. [25827/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister. I welcome the publication of the climate plan on Monday. We have done good work.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are doing good work in our political and governance arrangements regarding how we tackle climate change. The scale of this challenge is beyond compare, however. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, yesterday stated that a reduction of 2% is required every year in the next decade. We then have to ramp that figure up to a 7%, 8% and 9% reduction...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We currently have 51 major national road and motorway projects either being built or in planning. We do not have a single public transport project at the same stage. We need to shift our transport spending radically towards supporting active travel and public transport. If we do not do that, we will see an ongoing sprawl developing further and further out around the country. It will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (20 Jun 2019)

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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will consider to support the economy in the event of a sharp recession caused by international risks, such as those referred to in the recent report of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. [25552/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Minister that we are at a turning point where this country will become a leader on climate change. We have that creative capability. It works best when we work in collaboration. We have political consensus on why we need to do this and what we need to do. We have to work out the how and that is an iterative process. There is really important work in this plan which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Fine, that is mainly historic forestry. Project Ireland 2040 includes the existing national development plan measures if they are all delivered. Are the 58 million tonnes effectively the additional new measures contained in the plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On page 27 of the climate action plan, the Minister makes the case that we are looking to achieve a 2% reduction per annum in the next decade, and then to meet an 80% emissions reduction target by 2050, we would go up to 7% per annum. What exactly is our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050? Is that contingent on the European Union as a whole agreeing it? Are we agreeing it now? What...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There are two sectoral areas where we should not just rely on technology tweaks that a marginal abatement cost or MAC curve approach tends to bring but think about system change, which must come from the top down and the centre. One of the key recommendations made by the committee was to use a land use plan akin to what was done in the UK. Lord Deben was very clear about the benefits to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have criticisms but my central criticism is that the transport section in the plan is woeful. There is a complete lack of ambition for change or for efficiency and long-term decarbonisation. The Government is sticking with our current transport plans and converting diesel cars into electric vehicles. While I very much support electric vehicles, the change is not sufficient. First,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Professor Reeves stated he was concentrating on the financial risk but I turn to the complex area of public private partnerships, PPPs, because he is accustomed to examining them. When one speaks to Department officials and others, they say we do not understand that the developer in this case is taking on significant revenue risk. I do not know whether our guests have assessed that. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I recall attending a meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight on the issue of PPPs. I cannot remember whether representatives from the Department, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council or others made the point that one of the downsides of PPPs is that much higher costs for money must be paid when compared with when the State funds a project. That is on the basis that there would be...