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

Eamon Ryan: We were assessed by the Climate Action Network, which assesses what is going on in Europe, as being the second worst. I could go through each file and paper line by line and show the amendments that we tried to make. They were all seen in the European climate community as regressive and gave Ireland the same reputation as Poland. That is the reality.

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

Eamon Ryan: It depends on the perspective. My perspective is that this can be good for the Irish economy. This is not easy and other countries are not that good either. It is a difficult process. I have a question for the ESB. The Government's package is a good one and this national climate and energy plan structure is right because it says we have to think 30 years in advance. We have to think big...

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

Eamon Ryan: My two very last questions are for the ESB. It is difficult to predict what is going to happen in 2050 and that is what we are trying to do here. I would love the ESB to present other experts. I acknowledge the Pöyry consultancy produced this report and is very credible, but what energy expert believes that biomass in power generation is going to be the real future? That is...

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

Eamon Ryan: Is it €25 million?

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

Eamon Ryan: I totally disagree with it.

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

Eamon Ryan: This system will run heat pumps and cars. It will be so busy, critical and central that the old argument that it would not be used is nonsense and out of date. It is a question of how we cope with the needs and demands of the system. This is the skill. This is the industrial revolution in front of us, with regard to EirGrid and the ESB. We are good at it and it should not stop us using...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the Taoiseach's visit to the UN and signal our ongoing support of the UN. Who in the Government will signal our disapproval of President Trump's comments yesterday in his UN speech? I do not know if the Taoiseach has had the chance to see it yet but the level of bellicose and threatening content was beyond belief. It would have been laughable in its arrogance if it were not so...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: President Juncker, in his State of the Union address last week, made it clear that the European Commission and Parliament will pass plastics legislation that will help people to stop wasting single use plastics. The legislation mirrors the Waste Reduction Bill the Green Party introduced more than a year ago. Our committee had to write to the President of the European Commission and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: And national roads.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On 30 August, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, admitted that the Government's climate mitigation plan was not working. Earlier in the summer, the head of the Climate Change Advisory Council, Professor John FitzGerald, said that we are off course and heading rapidly in the wrong direction. At last week's Joint Committee on Climate Action...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would love to stand up here and give encouragement and acknowledgement but maybe I should have been more clear. The Government's development plan sucks when it comes to climate action and it will not do the job. We need ambition that goes way beyond what the Taoiseach has just set out. We also need political support. I support the BusConnects project but we all know in this House that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In the privacy of the national economic dialogue, the rural people were saying to us that they are sick and tired of the peat economy being dug up. We cannot even get the workers to do the retrofitting we need and the scale of the retrofit-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is what I heard and I was at that meeting. The scale of the challenge and what I am looking for is for us to agree with Professor John Fitzgerald when he said that we should spend €5 billion retrofitting our social housing so that we end fuel poverty. Let us do that and provide €30 billion in financing for retrofitting every other home so that it generates its own power...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Taoiseach change his development plan because it will not work in terms of the climate?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is kind of important.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is 63 and national roads.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No. That is not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I know several, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I know several who will be deeply disadvantaged with this cut.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the reduction of eligibility for the single-parent allowance from 18 to seven years will be reversed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39078/18]