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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the jobseeker's transitional payment until the youngest child is 18 years of age and until a child finishes secondary school, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39310/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the threshold for one-parent family payment and jobseeker's transition payment to an increased limit of €500 per week with a €50 increase for each additional child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39311/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the means-test for maintenance payments, particularly for rent allowance payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39286/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the fuel allowance for vulnerable households to remove the extra costs of increasing the carbon tax to €20 and €30 per tonne, respectively; the estimated cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39287/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Creative Ireland Programme (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will expand the Creative Ireland social welfare pilot beyond writers and visual art artists to include the performing artists and makers (details supplied); the estimated cost of extending the scheme to these artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39294/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of removing the means-test for maintenance payments, particularly for housing assistance payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39286/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of revenue which would be raised if the vacant site levy was applied to all sites above 100 m and below 500 sq m; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39295/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask a quick question? Did any of the witnesses here watch Ms Marie Donnelly's presentation last week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If Mr. Griffin watches that he will understand the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have a question for SEAI. Mr. Jim Scheer said he did modelling work showing that we were 50 million tonnes short on the 2030 climate target. Could he give me an update on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I have access to that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask the Secretary General how the national development plan was published without including any climate assessment or before there was agreement on one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How was it that a national development plan was signed off by Government before there was an understanding or assessment of what the climate impact would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How was it that a national development plan was signed off by a Government before there was an understanding as to what the climate impact would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have heard all of this already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am asking our questions very quickly and I do not mean to be rude, but I do go back to the question. Why was the national development plan signed off before we knew what its climate impact would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am reminded of the scene in the film "Jaws" when they see the big shark going by and they think that they are going to need a bigger boat. We are going to need a hell of a bigger boat to tackle climate change, and Mr. Griffin has a critical position in that regard. Our job is to help him in this way. I agree with Mr. Griffin's own Minister when he says that the mitigation plan is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: He said it was not working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We were fighting it at every turn. In each of those European packages, I saw the files coming from Brussels, and in each case we were fighting it, which makes me believe that Europe is not going to be easy for us in this whole process. We are going to have a tough job to explain to the Commission what we are doing. If Mr. Griffin's Department would like to see the circular economy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is fine. It is a consultation paper. We asked last week could we see it and were told we could not. Does that consultation paper exist now in a way that we could see it before it goes to public consultation?