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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vehicle Emissions (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: At last week's meeting of the Joint Committee on Climate Action, it was disappointing to hear the Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport say that we are technology takers, in effect, as our transport system makes the transition to a low-carbon system. We have to hope, or push, for higher electric vehicle standards. I know the Minister is doing that in Europe....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vehicle Emissions (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: A representative of the ESB said at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Climate Action last month that the direct State investment which is needed should not just happen through the climate fund. Reference was made to €25 million for fast-charging stations which could be located on State property, in State car parks in schools, Garda stations and public offices. Why was there nothing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I just ask a question on the same issue?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On the same issue as the other Deputies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will be brief.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I just have a supplementary question. Will the Minister confirm today whether he intends to give an additional allocation of €9 million to RTÉ to partly plug the gap? If so, why and what is the mechanism for doing that?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland is supporting proposals for the EU to commit, in the context of forthcoming COP24 in Katowice, to increasing the commitments in its nationally determined contribution to bring it in line with the 1.5°C target in the Paris Agreement. [41106/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: There are many threads to this budget but there was no tapestry woven today. I will start by looking at those positive threads that one would welcome because it is important that we achieve the balance in politics of recognising where something is done right. I was glad to see the relatively significant increase in overseas aid funding. It is critical for this country, particularly when...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No, it will not. Shame on Fine Gael.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to raise a point. Last week, the Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment stated that he was about to present a consultation paper on how we will meet the new national energy and climate action plan to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, which would be published and a copy of which would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No cyclist would say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was keen to come back in because Deputy Brian Stanley seemed to be very upset about the intervention I had made at the start of the meeting. It is important to work out in a short timeframe what we are doing and what questions we need to ask. The point I was making was that this was one of the most useful facilities we had because it allowed us to access information and opened up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I come back to Ms Behan and the Secretary General? They are right that it is an iterative process. Mr. Doyle said it starts in about 12 weeks' time. The European Commission is coming here before Christmas. It is going to ask what are the Department's projections for climate change emissions from transport by 2030. What does the Department say to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Has Mr. Doyle done any modelling forecasting of what the transport emissions are going to be in 2030?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Which research agencies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Who do I go to get an answer to the question as to what the Department's projected transport emissions are in 2030?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: By whom?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Who is projecting our transport emissions by 2030?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Ms Behan said transport emissions are going to be lower. Why does she think that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Our emissions grew by 4% last year. I will ask a different question. The TRAM people presented to us. They estimate that to 2030 we have a 50 million tonne shortfall, and that this is something in the iterative process that we have to show and we have to start in 12 weeks' time. How are we going to close that gap? How much of that 50 million tonne shortfall does Ms Behan think...