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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I suggest to the Chairman that we obtain that advice. It would be useful to have it available to any academics or other experts we might request to review our analysis of the legal options.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Did Ms Connolly not say the value was typically ten times the earnings before EBITDA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To help us do our own mathematical calculations without too much guesswork, are we assuming an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3% a year?

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Global Assessment Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There was a sad story in the news this morning concerning the death of the last male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia. It is symbolic but it is impossible for us not to feel a sense of grief, particularly those of us who are of a certain age. My interest in ecology dates back to the late 1970s, when we studied it in school. I remember various things from that time, including collectible cards in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Our equivalent to French nuclear power or New Zealand hydropower is offshore wind energy. We have some of the strongest winds in the world and the technology is there to harness this energy and export over a distance. I am very glad that the Taoiseach signed a contract with the French in respect of an interconnector in recent days. That is how we can ship energy in. We will be selling the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We must deal with the politics around this and stop the problem at source. The Government must stop putting all the emphasis and blame on the individual, which is what it is doing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Minister recognise this part of the challenge? We know that by 2050, we have to stop using fossil fuels. The Government is going to commit to it and the Taoiseach already said so in an answer to a question I put to him last week. We know that if we are to do that and stop runaway dangerous climate change, which will ruin everyone's future, we have to keep four fifths of the known...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is a phrase in the climate community to "do the maths." The maths is simple and it would be appropriate to put on the junior certificate maths paper. If there is X amount of carbon that we can produce into the atmosphere and if we know that the known fossil fuel reserves, leaving aside the stuff we have not found yet, is four times that, we have to keep four fifths of the known carbon...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On the same issue-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is it not the case that we are actually in for €3.25 billion? In the letters the Minister mentioned, there was an acknowledgement that we would have to pay €10 million per year in current expenditure for departmental staff. As I told delegates from that Department when they appeared before the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment last week, one...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Just to get the figure right, it is €3.25 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: No. It is the cost to us. All of it is in the State's books and none of the work with the private operator will remove any of it from the State's accounts.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I was formerly Minister in that Department and we delivered many projects. The Minister will have read the transcripts. In my experience, the Department is good in this area and has capability. Having worked for seven years on the contract, it probably knows more than anyone else about how a broadband scheme should be rolled out. We are investing €3.25 billion, whereas, without...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Why is it fundamental?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Even if one accepts that there will be risks if, for example, we sign the contract, there is still a fundamental truth. The developer does not have a huge team or significant resources in the event that there are difficulties, compared with some of the bidders that were involved at earlier stages, for example, Vodafone and SSE which are massive utility companies that could have covered some...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The basic truth is that we know we are going to put potentially €3.75 billion on our balance sheet, representing a cost to us. The consortium's risk is €175 million. There is just no comparison. I asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment about my next point. Given that we are not in a competitive tendering process, given that we are providing...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The new all-of-Government climate action plan due out in the next few weeks will, I am sure, morph into the national energy and climate action plan we have to put together for the European Commission. In carrying out the work of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action, certain things became clear. The first is that no climate assessment whatsoever was carried out in the formulation...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it will next meet. [16738/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am sure the Taoiseach, like other Deputies, has met colleagues from the media who lost their jobs recently as a result of the massive scaling back of the The Times, Ireland edition. There is a real difficulty for our friends in the media who are caught in that position but there is a wider policy issue as well. There is a real concern now that Irish journalism is being corroded and eroded...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role of his Department in the evolution of the BusConnects project being led by the NTA; and if he has recently met with the NTA in relation to the project. [22092/19]