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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Today An Bord Pleanála has turned down the planning application to build a plaza in College Green. Our city is grinding to a halt. The national planning framework proposes going back to the core and creating these civic spaces, but nothing is happening. There is not a single public transport project or cycling project. This plan was years in preparation and now it has been thrown out...

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Ministers and Ministers of State who are being appointed to new positions today are four capable men. They are good-humoured in everything they do. They are good men. The only problem is that none of them is a woman.

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is a terrible pity that Olwyn Enright and others with her scale of talent could not be here today to be appointed as Ministers. Deputy McHugh's forthcoming appointment as a Minister is a huge honour for him and his family. We wish him the best of luck. As Deputy Howlin said earlier, to sit at the Cabinet table for the first time is a unique honour in our Republic. I am quite sure that...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As the Prime Ministers meet in Council, I am sure one of the things they will be talking and thinking about, particularly as they debate migration, is the results of the elections that took place in Europe this week, in Bavaria in Germany, Brussels in Belgium and Luxembourg. Each was a historic vote. There was an incredible surge in the vote for the Green Party across Europe. It was a vote...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Yesterday, Facebook announced that it is changing its rules so that by the time of the next local elections in the UK all political advertisers will have to be registered and all their advertisements will have to be made public on a register to be held for seven years. Furthermore, the number of people targeted, the amount of money spent and the age, gender and location of those people will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Fine Gael has actually refused to do it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is news.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Under new European regulations we have to have a new national energy and climate action plan by the end of the year. I am that afraid the new Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, will not have time to put his feet under the table because we were promised a public consultation process on the plan which surely will have to be launched in the coming days. It will lead to the entire national...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is completely different.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance if the budget €50,000 limit on benefit-in-kind exemption for electric vehicles will apply retrospectively to vehicles purchased prior to budget day. [42369/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug osimertinib will be made available to persons with EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer; the cost-benefit analysis undertaken regarding the provision of the drug; and the reason it is not available here in view of the fact that it is widely available across the EU. [41956/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the advisory board for the climate action fund has been established; and if so, the members of same. [41957/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 541. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received to the climate action fund by the deadline of 1 October 2018. [41958/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 542. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if State-owned companies such as Bord na Móna and Coillte which hold large landbanks of degraded peatland from which emissions could be cost effectively abated are eligible to apply to the climate action fund; and if so, if they were notified of the fund. [41959/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the organisations which were notified of the climate action fund by letter or email. [41960/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Fund (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 544. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if public health benefits are one of the criteria to be used in assessing applications under the climate action fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the cost of an NC5 non-batch application will be removed; if the requirement for a planning application in order to make the application will be removed; and the guidelines and guidance on the costs of making the connection. [41963/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (16 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to remove the requirement for planning permission for residential solar photo-voltaic installations (details supplied). [41962/18]

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We all have personal sympathy for the former Minister, Deputy Naughten, but there was an immediate and collective realisation in this Chamber, when the Taoiseach detailed in two or three sentences four previous dinners, that this was not optics and the Minister had to resign. That is regrettable for him and his family but there was no doubt or question about that when we heard that. I do...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Earlier today we expressed no confidence in the Minister but it was primarily on the matter of climate change and we did not expect him to resign today only an hour later. I am sorry I was late in coming into the Chamber because I was attending a committee meeting and asking questions about broadband of our regulator. I was looking forward to asking questions about what we are going to do...