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

Eamon Ryan: We will have to be succinct because Deputy Bríd Smith, Senator Lombard and I are due in RTÉ at 9.30 p.m. We will be sharing a taxi.

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

Eamon Ryan: To answer Deputy Stanley's question, one of the evidence points we heard was from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. It did not have any plan or clear pathway over the next ten years for closing the 100 million tonne gap that we have. However, the one initiative that the Department did cite was a reduction in the motorway speed limit by 10 km/h, to 110 km/h for cars and 80 km/h...

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

Eamon Ryan: Unfortunately, I will be unable to come back because I have a prior commitment. Is there any possibility we could have the vote tomorrow? It would not take long tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is very welcome to get this opportunity to discuss both the metro and BusConnects projects. I will start with the metro. I very much appreciated the briefing we got yesterday following the NTA's announcement of its latest preferred route alignment. I want to focus on the southside, as a southside Deputy. I am aware that the preferred alignment from the NTA in regard to bringing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is absolute agreement that there can be no delay in the broader project. Clearly, we must do things within legislative and other mechanisms but we have a real transport crisis in our city. We face a congestion charge of €2 billion a year because Dublin is such a car dominated city. I recall from our separate work at the Joint Committee on Climate Action that Ms Graham replied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We will have to avoid that outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are going to develop Dublin as a city similar to Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Utrecht. Senator Humphreys is right that we have to think long-term. In the long term, the city will not be dominated by cars. It will be dominated by bikes, buses and a rail system. The bike capacity will reduce the number of cars on the road. We must think long-term. It is not that we will continue to provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is a huge population in Dublin who think that way now. There is an enormous pent-up demand. No one will go on the roads because it is dangerous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Could the committee make such a request?

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I regret that I was not in the Chamber to hear the earlier part of the debate. A very important meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action took place earlier. This important motion before the House is, as the Ceann Comhairle noted, about process. It is about the powers of this Parliament. In the United Kingdom, we can see how the House of Commons is taking back power from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Waste Management (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: One of the recommendations from our climate report, which we have already agreed, is a national land-use plan to provide a strategy for how we use our land. Within that and by the end of the year or as soon as possible as part of our national energy and climate action plan, we should have an answer to the question of what the optimum level of anaerobic digestion is. That should be driven by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Waste Management (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assessment planned for the potential scale of anaerobic digestion as a new economic opportunity for farmers and a way of dealing with waste products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14233/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Waste Management (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The development of anaerobic digestion will have a role in the new energy future and in the future of farming by way of providing income. We must, however, ensure it will be sustainable in every way and environmentally sustainable more than anything else. I am keen to hear from the Minister on the assessment he has made of the quantity of and the environmental side effects of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I fully agree; nothing should hold it up. We should, at real speed, look at those other options. I take some comfort from the Taoiseach saying the Government is willing to do that and that with respect to the comment by the Minister, Deputy Ross, to the effect that he would not countenance that proposal and that it would not be happening, nothing else happening is not the final word. That...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is doubt over whether the Government has made up its mind on what we will do with the south part of the MetroLink project. As we are speaking, the National Transport Authority has outlined its latest paper on the next level of design options. I have had a chance to read it online and we look forward to attending its session this afternoon with Members of Parliament to ask questions....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to move agriculture here towards a model that is less reliant on synthetic inputs and a model that would help restore natural resources. [13978/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has revisited the herd expansion plans in view of the report of the IPCC on climate change and recent calls for drastic action in reducing emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13977/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated full-year cost if the budget for the reconciliation fund increased by 10%. [13259/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to have an education promotion mission to India later in 2019. [13262/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (26 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of four-wheel drive Garda vehicles attached to each Garda division in Dublin as of 22 February 2019; and the number as of 31 December 2017. [13261/19]