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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ratification of the Minamata Convention on Mercury: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Okay. That is not too bad.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ratification of the Minamata Convention on Mercury: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I accept that. I had not realised that the European regulations were only drafted in 2017. That is the timeframe one would expect. May I ask one last question? Moving away from the quantum of resources, the Minister's Department is also unusual in that many of the environmental responsibilities are divided up between the former Ministry in the Custom House - that is, the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will ask the Minister a question on an issue that is troubling all of us, namely, the overrun on the new national children's hospital. This has implications for the health budget, the whole capital programme, other budgets and the competence of the State to deliver large-scale capital projects. I was prompted to ask a question when the Minister outlined the three main reasons for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have heard we had the project priced before the detailed design had been done and this put us in a very weak position when it came to pricing because the contract was already signed, sealed and delivered. It is not as if cabling technology or hospital technology are changing that quickly. The bidder was able to bid without the final design. While there are other issues, for example, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would appreciate if the Minister could send me a note setting out exact timelines, the bidding approach, the level of project design drawings when each of the bidding stages took place and when the final contract was agreed. As I said, I am going on anecdotal evidence from people I trust in Dublin who are involved in this area. I am just reporting back to the Minister what is being said...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (31 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister says there is no prospect of controls going into the likes of Rotterdam or Calais for goods coming directly from Ireland. However, the papers last week quoted the Taoiseach as saying that was a possibility. Dan O'Brien in the Irish Independenthas raised real concerns as to the impact of that on Irish business, suggesting it could exclude us from the Single Market. Has the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (31 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If we are to have a no-deal scenario, and if it seems clear from the Government that it is determined not to see border checks coming in on the North-South Border, then where would the checks be that would reassure our European colleagues that all goods coming from Ireland are complying with Single Market rules? Would the checks in those instances take place in Rosslare before goods leave...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (31 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: So it will be on Irish ports, not continental ports.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (31 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the analysis undertaken on the effect on businesses here if in the event of a no-deal Brexit border controls were implemented in continental ports checking goods arriving from Ireland; and the measures she has considered to mitigate the negative impact on business here. [4872/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (31 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am interested in a specific aspect of what might happen if there was to be a no-deal Brexit. Comments in the media last week suggested that not applying a hard North-South Border might lead to circumstances in which goods coming from Ireland would be checked in the ports of Rotterdam, Calais and elsewhere. What preparations or plans has the Department made for that eventuality?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will return to the Brexit issue. I encourage the Taoiseach to continue to brief the leaders of the Opposition and to convene later this week or early next week the meeting he had last week to allow us to discuss in private what the latest developments are. It is important we retain cohesion and consensus as best we can. We need to be careful with our language. We need not to inflame it...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I reiterate a call I made in this House several weeks ago to get the institutions of Northern Ireland back up and running. It is intolerable, at this most historic and sensitive time, where the issue of Northern Ireland and the Irish Border is centre stage of politics in Ireland, the UK and Europe, that the only active politician representing the majority opinion of the North in the House of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Great news for the climate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Taoiseach said in his reply that the Government is preparing an all-of-government action plan on climate disruption. Can he confirm it will fulfil the exact same role as the national energy and climate action plan, which we are compelled to agree with the European Commission before the end of this year under new EU governance climate legislation? It is important we have clarity and that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it will next meet. [2735/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To return to Brexit, last week there was a lot of speculation that in the event of no deal we might end up with border controls in Rotterdam or Calais. Unfortunately, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, in answering a simple question on what would happen in such circumstances stated that the dead parrot that is the withdrawal agreement would suddenly be alive and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent meetings at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels; and if he will report on the discussions that took place on disinformation. [4130/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent meetings with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the African Union. [4131/19]

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Good. That does not do down Kilkenny or Wexford. In the same way as Cork rising will not do down Dublin, Waterford rising will help the south east. As Deputy Wallace knows, Wexford is one of the poorest counties in the country. What is going on with this county with such good land, as well as a tradition in engineering and enterprise?

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I always put it down to the fact that in 1798 the Brits put Wexford down and decided they would keep it down ever since.