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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in contingency planning for Brexit; and the number of meetings that have been held since September 2018 on same. [9390/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which he plans to apply a new revised cost of carbon in the National Development Plan 2018-2027; and the new analysis of the project which will be carried out before the cost is agreed. [10620/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for being late as I had the usual clashing meetings. The SEAI renewables report yesterday was timely and interesting in showing that the State is so far away from its targets. One figure that stood out among many is that the level of solar PD in our country is almost one fifteenth of that in Northern Ireland. There have been controversies over various energy schemes in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Manley is correct regarding the fines. As I understand it, we will have to make up the balance. Rather than it being a fine, we will trade our way up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It will be the same fine in that we will have to pay for it. The Latvian deal at €30 million a tonne is unlikely. Marie Donnelly estimated it could cost €200 million a tonne at a previous committee meeting. If 17 countries are behind and 11 in surplus, the market is likely to be much tighter than the Latvian deal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It could be €300 million or €400 million a year. When Mr. Kenny came before the committee almost a year ago, he made the point that 67% of new build housing in Ireland provides for fossil fuel heating systems. Given where we will have to go on the climate change targets we will have to meet, in all likelihood we will pay to take them out in the coming decades. Why would we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Every month that goes by, fossil fuel heating systems are being put into two thirds of new housing. We know the alternatives work. If it could be done by statutory instrument rather than having to go through legislation, the Minister should do it today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Friends of the Irish Environment have taken a case to the European courts on the regulations supporting the burning of biomass as a renewable. There is major controversy about this. In the US, there is outrage at the exportation of large areas of clear fell and natural forest for power generation by companies such as Drax. This is an environmental crime. Added to this judgment, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (28 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance the analysis conducted on the possible implementation of a digital tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10160/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (28 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am very keen for the Minister, if he can, to share what analysis he will present in response to the OECD consultation document addressing the tax challenges of digitalisation of the economy. The digital tax is clearly centre stage for him, as a French Minister was here earlier in the week to discuss the matter. It is clear from the OECD that we will have to make a submission on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (28 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The OECD paper mentioned by the Minister is probably the central point of the Department's approach to this. It has set out a range of measures in the digital tax area, including user participation, marketing intangibles and significant economic presence provisions. We must put in our part of the consultation next week and go to Paris on 13 March or 14 March to engage in a wider public...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (28 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would be concerned if it were to take quite some time. Our reputation as a state depends on us being seen to be progressive and willing to take this action. There is major public disquiet throughout Europe and the world because these companies have engaged in tax avoidance to such scandalous levels. We need to act now. The Minister needs to start correctly. This is an early part of a...

Independent Radio Stations: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is an interesting article by Stephen Collins in The Irish Timestoday in which he argues that new politics is not working. Most often when it is not working, the blame can be laid at the feet of the Government. I can think of lots of examples to illustrate this, including the Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill introduced by Deputy...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party will support the Government and all the other parties in trying put this legislation in place. It is legislation that none of us want to see enacted or used but it is a necessary precaution that we must make as a result of the possibility of a no-deal, crash-out Brexit. This morning I read something that gave me a sense of the lack of connection to reality of the British...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Last week, the Minister for Justice and Equality stated that the Government does not intend to proceed with a referendum to amend the reference in the Constitution to women’s place in the home. Is it intended, following advice from the National Women's Council and the Stay-At-Home Parents Association, to proceed with a consultative forum whereby a wording which recognises the value of...

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

Eamon Ryan: Something we could agree to do is to stop scoring petty political points on serious matters of national public policy. I fought tooth and nail for four years in government to protect the metro. I was literally fighting with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We kept it and preserved it, only for the incoming Minister with responsibility for transport to abandon it in 2011...

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

Eamon Ryan: Such behaviour does not get us anywhere. I want answers to the three questions I have asked. We have a role. We are perfectly placed to represent our constituents and give our views on the proposals and on the various alternatives. I agree with Deputy Howlin. We need a place to debate it that does not involve just scoring petty political points but looks at the options and considers what...

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

Eamon Ryan: That is not true.

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

Eamon Ryan: I ask the Taoiseach to answer the first three questions I asked and to stop trying to play politics with this matter.

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

Eamon Ryan: The consultation on MetroLink will not be easy if we do not have the full engineering facts. As I understand it, we will not get the revised solution and the revised options on the southside of the city until the end of March. We are flying slightly blind without that. The engineers will rightly say that the greater Dublin transport strategy set out their preferred approach but nobody...