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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Light Rail Projects (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What the Taoiseach referred to is a variation in the possible route for the metro on the south side. It is a variation in this sense. There is a real case to be made for Terenure-Rathfarnham but we can put that to one side because the Taoiseach has done so and concentrate on the UCD-Sandyford option because that has various characteristics. First, there is very high demand for transport....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Light Rail Projects (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to that day. The Taoiseach has ruled out that route alignment and has said explicitly that he sees sense in the UCD-Sandyford route, which I also see sense in. What I am saying is that rather than just leaving this process to continue, intervention from the Government is required if it believes that provides real benefits. It needs to consider what it must to do to assist...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Light Rail Projects (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process by which he can direct the National Transport Authority to consider and develop alternative alignments for the metro southside. [15443/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Light Rail Projects (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I was listening to the Minister's discussion on metro south. I was very glad that last week the Taoiseach, in answering questions about the project, indicated that the Government would be willing to consider alternative route options, possibly including one to University College Dublin and Sandyford. I know representatives of the NTA, at a committee discussion of the matter last week,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process by which he could direct the National Transport Authority, NTA, to consider and develop alternative alignments for the southside section of the metro. [15087/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 330. To ask the Minister for Health if social work offices in Finglas, Dublin 11 are to be relocated to a premises on the North Circular Road. [15226/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Properties (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 479. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if social work offices in Ballymun, Dublin 11, are to be relocated to a premises on the North Circular Road. [15227/19]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Further Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I must apologise. We were at that meeting. Unfortunately, the timing clashed but it was important for our own work to attend that meeting. I was then stuck in priority questions to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport and I will be running out the door shortly for another engagement. No disrespect to the Minister or officials is meant; it is just one of those days. I will make...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Further Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Maybe we should take a couple of hundred people out of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform as well, just to keep everyone on board, and manage them very closely.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Further Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Or very brave, as someone said yesterday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the two previous speakers. It is very important and significant and it is a good day for Irish climate policy when there is clear agreement, but I acknowledge that among certain parties there are different views, which is perfectly valid. Among a number of parties, however, there is agreement that we will accept the advice of the Climate Change Advisory Council to raise the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will withdraw it. There is clear agreement at the end of the document reflecting on it. All of this work will be concluded prior to budget 2020, and there is common agreement on that timeline except from those who disagree fundamentally with the approach. While we are not the Cabinet, we have built a certain consensus among those parties which agree which will help to make this not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can I comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I support it. As I said in the discussion last night, we introduced such a tax in our time in government. Unfortunately, there was a problem at the Supreme Court. I believe we should go back and look at that experience. The problem was a technicality in the courts, as I recall it. I agree that such a report or inquiry would be useful. If that mechanism is not possible then we should...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, regarding Brexit and the recent developments. [13973/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Ireland has a special interest in this because I understand that our troops are still in the Golan. It is a particularly difficult mission in a precarious place. It is frustrating that in the ongoing debates on the issue of Palestine, the West Bank and Gaza, and on the wider issues in the region, we are constantly told that we must stick with the current policy and it will work when clearly...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meetings at the EU-League of Arab States summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. [10952/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Deputy Bríd Smith that it is not ideal that this is the first item up. It almost seems inevitable that the issue of carbon taxation dominates. Certainly it is the first question that is always asked and then one does not get onto the wider work. It is important that we do so. I support the amendment because I want to keep that certainty in the ten-year period in order...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We will do it under chapter 6.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with what Deputy Bríd Smith said at the outset. We should have started by doing this sequentially. It would be better to discuss the amendment when we are discussing chapter 6.