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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I want to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On the record, because this is important-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: While I agree that the MaREI Centre's analysis does not show that, the point I wanted to make was that it was being used to promote biomass in power generation. On all the other uses, all I am asking for is detailed analysis on the environmental effects and the sustainability, social and international aspects. I am not disagreeing with what Professor Ó Gallachóir said but we need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Chairman, apologies, the transport committee meeting next door is also discussing carbon and I am shooting backwards and forwards. I will watch a replay of the full presentation and I read Mr. Donnellan's slides with real interest. Our job is to help the State in this major herculean task of meeting its climate change ambitions. The more we can come up with concept block ideas on which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Donnellan has misunderstood my point. I have no intention of telling farmers because they know the land better than anyone and they are business people and have to make business decisions, taking into account everything that is happening. I think we need a land-use strategy plan to shape the policies that give farmers the payments and the signals for what we want done. For example, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I must apologise for being absent earlier. I had to go up to the Chamber for a contribution on the European Council debate but, as it happened, Deputy Micheál Martin approached me and informed me that he had made some sort of deal to extend this Dáil by another year. I asked, in my contribution, what are we going to use that year for? We should use it for consensus on certain key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Each briefly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is the current system serving ICMSA members or would Mr. Enright tweak or radically change it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Could the witnesses from the different groups reply briefly to the question I asked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The phrase is "feeding two birds with the one scone".

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has modelling on the impact on demand for public transport of fare increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role of his Department in the decision-making process and consideration of the final route of the MetroLink project on the south side of Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of permissions granted for apartments and houses, respectively in each of the four local authorities in Dublin during the period of Q1 2016 to Q2 2018; the number of houses and apartments, respectively which have been completed during the period of Q1 2016 to Q2 2018 according to the CSO by year, local authority,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses and apartments, respectively sold in each of the four local authorities in Dublin during the period of Q1 2016 to Q2 2018 by year, local authority, number of apartments sold per year and number of houses sold per year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52445/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I very much appreciate the presentation. To set it in a slightly longer context - I made this point earlier in our discussion on another issue - if we take a 15 to 20-year perspective, the health budget in 2000, including both private and public health spend, was about €6.4 billion. It is hard to believe the scale of the jump but it had increased in 2007 to €15.7 billion. In...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is very true. I was looking briefly at the statistics in terms of a drawing a comparison on spending per capitabetween Ireland and the OECD. Spending per capitais the best way to draw comparisons because spending as a percentage of GDP is a distorted figure because of the nature of Ireland's GDP. When one looks at spending per capita, my understanding is that we are one third above...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is still very high up in the rankings.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: This might assist the policy makers because if, as Mr. Desmond states, we have the fifth highest spend in Europe, which is a very high level of spending per capita, given the wealth of other member states and if it is in the teeth of an environment where we have very low numbers of doctors, where one would have expected that we would have the fifth highest number of doctors. While Mr....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: One would expect that the reaction to that would be a significant increase in the capital expenditure but that is not where the spending in the Revised Estimate has been, by and large. Mr. Desmond mentioned the State claims, demographics and so. If we needed to introduce a Supplementary Estimate because we were increasing our capital expenditure to address some of what are undoubted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for arriving late but I was at an earlier meeting. I read the presentation and I am glad I have an opportunity to ask some brief questions. My first question relates to the Poolbeg incinerator. I understand a recent EPA inspection showed that some of the material which was used in the incinerator should not have been used in that it came from a two-bin - rather than a three-bin...