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

Eamon Ryan: As I understand it, the Cork incinerator project has been subject to a legal challenge. That is unsurprising as the planning process was bizarre, if we look at it from a distance. It was highly unusual. Is the EPA involved in the legal process. At what stage is it at?

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

Eamon Ryan: Does it need to get through the judicial review process before going before the EPA for a licence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I suppose I should state at the outset that I am a former Minister in the Department and ran - or was involved in, oversaw or whatever is the word for what the Minister does - a procurement process. That ended up with a single bidder, Three, which ended up winning the process. I am glad to say we delivered the project on time and to budget. I met the bidders at various stages throughout...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How many meetings? It is hard to follow the trail because there were so many meetings and telephone conversations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Was the dinner in February the one in the Merrion Hotel, or was that the one in March?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Where was the dinner in February?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: At the dinner in New York, there was an official, but not one tied to the national broadband plan process. At the meetings in Clare and in the Merrion Hotel, there was no official with the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The private secretary or the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is slightly different. That is an issue considering the hypersensitivity of the Department on this issue because the Moriarty tribunal concerned another procurement process related to it. I do not believe the Department would have allowed me to go to a dinner with a bidder on my own. That would have set so many alarm bells off that there would have been a red alert. Does Mr. Smyth get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would say they would be. From my experience of a similar situation, I believe it is hard for the public to believe the position on the dinner in March, in the Merrion Hotel, where we are told there was no discussion of the matter in question. It was mainly a discussion on the use of The Box in Trinity College Dublin and ALTV to train Syrian refugees. While there is a memo for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: What I am saying is that the 158 Deputies did speculate. The result of the speculation was that it is more than likely, unfortunately, that there was a discussion on the national broadband plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Smyth is referring to the line I read out at the very start on there being no formal need for these meetings.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (6 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 13. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements for the reopening of the organic farming scheme; the primary areas of focus in this regard; the budget for the extended scheme; and the number of farmers that could apply. [51159/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I firmly believe that with collective action in this country our society and this State can address this issue. I believe that because of my own experience in government during a very difficult period. However, in 2011 we were on target to meet our 2020 targets. We were on 11% and were heading in the right direction. While much of that was due to the recession, and in particular the loss...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The reason we wrote the letter to ask about the additional projects was that it is perhaps difficult for public servants to be honest in a committee. If we have to go into private session we should do it, by all means. We wondered whether there were additional projects because there is a shortfall, as the Minister recognised, and wanted to get an understanding of those projects so that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: To conclude, would it help the Minister if we could get some kind of agreement here? We will not get agreement on everything because it is so difficult and such a huge challenge. It is bigger than the jobs task, as I said to the Taoiseach a number of weeks ago. However, would it help the Minister if we were to get agreement on proposals that, for example, we go for 20,000 ha of continuous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is what the national development plan did.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker since he met Prime Minister May on 21 November 2018; and the issues that were discussed. [50479/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he had at the special meeting in Brussels on 25 November 2018. [50480/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is impossible to work out what will happen with regard to Brexit following the vote next week in the House of Commons. I was in Westminster last week talking to my colleague, Caroline Lucas, from the Green Party, who is involved in the People's Vote campaign. We support it while being respectful from a distance. I do not believe there can or should be any reopening of the deal that is...