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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is sitting beside the Tánaiste. He could have indicated that date in an aside. On an issue for which the Tánaiste does have responsibility, on Tuesday in the Dáil, the Taoiseach said he would be looking to try to reassure the UK Government that the backstop and the accompanying customs arrangement would not trap them into that customs arrangement forever and a...

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am disappointed. We should not be saying that we cannot hypothecate. Green bonds do hypothecate: they have to go towards sustainable investments. The market for those bonds is looking for exactly the type of project I am talking about. I remember Mr. Andrew McDowell coming here a couple of years ago and he was crying out to lend long-term for these bonds but lamenting the fact that...

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can I have a further rejoinder?

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the further use of green bonds in public debt management and for the hypothecation of such funds for capital investment projects here. [7514/19]

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome that we raised €3 billion from a green bond issued in the autumn. I understand that the bond will mature in approximately 12 years and that it was sold at a yield of 1.2% or 1.3%. Nevertheless, we need to scale up the initiative considerably. Our existing national development plan will bring us only one third of the way, at most, towards our climate target for 2030. There...

Ceistanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): National Treasury Management Agency Bonds (14 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have some suggestions for ways we could use those bonds to invest in long-term projects that will yield a substantial return. Yesterday, I raised with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the possibility of a metro loop on the southside of Dublin. Rather than stopping the underground in Charlemont Street or Ranelagh, it could be extended to Terenure, Templeogue and Tallaght on...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I hope I will not repeat some earlier questions. I asked the Taoiseach a couple of questions yesterday but I did not get answers. First, under this two-phase approach did the Minister for Health not realise it in February 2017? That was when there was €950 million for the hospital, €100 million for IT and €100 million for equipment. Anybody I have spoken to who has...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will ask the same question I asked the Taoiseach yesterday. I am not certain on this so I am asking the question for information. Is it true that the professional services companies such as the architects and others were on a fixed percentage contract and, therefore, when the cost ballooned their percentage went up as well? If so, what might that have cost?

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would appreciate it if I could get that tomorrow.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My final question is for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I was wondering if we had built a hospital like this in the past and Tallaght hospital came to mind. That hospital was opened in 1998. It has 560 beds and 12 theatres so it is not very different. I believe the cost was €140 million.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Tullamore hospital might have been similar but I am familiar with Tallaght hospital. Where was the institutional memory in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? There were capital overruns of IR£2.5 million for Tallaght hospital and there was uproar. Deloitte was asked to report on it. Where was the institutional expertise and memory in the Department that it did not look...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: One of the cost overruns I have heard about is for cabling. I refuse to accept that cabling for a children's operating theatre versus a general operating theatre could not have been managed from previous experience. I do not believe the big cost overruns are necessary because of some high technology medical difference between a children's hospital and a general hospital. The Minister just...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There has been 30 years of work on this issue so it was not just by press release that they were trying to make the case. The fundamental case is that the plan can and should change, and it already has changed. It included in its original form a DART interconnector which has since been removed by the Government as an aspiration or put off into never-never land. As a result, the MetroLink...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Take it from the motorway programme.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is adding blindness to insult.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Take it from the motorway programme.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the Minister coming in to discuss how we extend the metro to the south side of Dublin. He may be aware that on Monday night, South Dublin County Council approved a motion, advanced by my colleague, Councillor Francis Noel Duffy, that rather than stopping at Charlemont, Ranelagh or Beechwood, as I believe the Minister and the Department may be considering, that we would continue...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not know whether the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste or the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, is best placed to answer this question. It relates to the proposal to use the Mourne Mountains as a storage area for nuclear waste by the nuclear authorities in the UK. My understanding is that the Scottish Assembly ruled out such deep geological storage...

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I knew Brendan McGahon. My colleagues, Trevor Sargent and John Gormley, did also and always spoke so well about him. Similarly, my colleagues in the Green Party in Dundalk, Councillors Mark Deary and Marianne Butler spoke in the same vein of his honesty, his bravery and his integrity which was known to our party and very much appreciated. I also knew Seymour Crawford and had the great...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Taoiseach for meeting the co-leader of the European Green Party, Philippe Lamberts, last week. Mr. Lamberts is on the Brexit steering group in the European Parliament and we found the meeting very useful. What Deputy Howlin said is true. There is not a hint of a chink that we may blink either in Europe or Dublin with regard to any fundamental change to the withdrawal agreement....