Results 21,001-21,020 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: At what percentage rate?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Yes, but at a low percentage rate.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I would be using a lot of those compulsory purchase orders. In any event, zoning decisions are made by local authorities and not, as was the case in the past, on the basis of land interests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I suggest we seek legal advice from the Oireachtas legal service on what has happened with the Bill. We need a root and branch investigation of the process from start to end. What the Government has done is fundamentally unfair to Members of the Oireachtas and our constituents. I would like to see the legal advice and have the right to question our legal advisers about what has happened in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: When I raised this issue with the Ceann Comhairle on the Order of Business today, he confirmed that we could seek legal advice. I am not questioning his final decision, but I want to look at the approach taken to the legislation from start to end by the Government because it is an egregious insult to the institutions of the Oireachtas that we have been treated in this way. I would like to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Without returning to the Second Stage debate, I fundamentally disagree with Senator McDowell. It is not gesture politics. The four seismic licences granted yesterday will destroy large sections of marine life in the north-west Atlantic Ocean at a time when the wildlife system is in peril. There will be massive damage. If we succeed in finding oil in the north-west Atlantic Ocean, that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I said it was a couple of hundred kilometres offshore.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: How is it that pumping out oil or gas discovered in the deep Atlantic would be less harmful to the environment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: How would it have a less harmful impact on the environment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Where would the oil or gas be brought ashore?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Let us take as an example the County Kerry field. Where would the gas be brought ashore?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: What makes the Minister of State believe that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Would a pipeline be run underwater for 232 km?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: My understanding from previous experience is that beyond a certain distance which 232 km would easily surpass a pipeline would not run directly to shore; rather, the gas would be shipped. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Perhaps the officials might be able to help on this matter. Is it not the case that at a distance 232 km - County Kerry is not necessarily the place where the gas would be landed - a pipeline would not be run to shore but that instead it would be shipped?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: To where would it be shipped?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Whitegate is specific in the type of oil it can use. It can take use a particular type of crude oil. There is no guarantee whatsoever-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I am asking how it would be less harmful to the environment to have oil or gas pumped out of the north Atlantic. At a distance of approximately 232 km, it would be very expensive and require significant energy and environment-damaging procedures to bring it ashore for refining. The likelihood is that it would never be land in Ireland. It would be shipped here because it is a fungibles...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: That is what I would like to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: From the international oil and gas markets.