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

Eamon Ryan: We are told that our economy is growing at a rate of 9%, that we are back to full employment and that our budget is back in balance. This is the time, therefore, to reverse what was the worst cut during the period of difficulty and crisis, namely the cut to the single parent's allowance from 18 to seven years, which was introduced four or five years ago. I am interested to know whether the...

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

Eamon Ryan: I am honestly shocked that the words I hear the Minister speak today are the exact same words Senator Kevin Humphreys used when, as Minister of State with responsibility in this area, he introduced the cuts in a lone-parent's allowance when a child reached seven years. The facts belie the policy approach the Minister and her Department seem to be taking. I understand that the Indecon...

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

Eamon Ryan: There is nothing personal in this. It is purely the policy that concerns me. We should not discriminate between one parent and another and, in particular, we should not discriminate against lone parents who are in most in need of the State's support. We should not say to them that the way to help them is always through the paid workforce. It is right for us to leave the parents with the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a Citizens' Assembly on gender equality. [37580/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Fitzmaurice and Healy. We support the motion because our solutions to the housing crisis are better than the Minister's solutions. It is as simple as that. We want a site value tax to bring development back into the core, the Minister is following an old-fashioned sprawl development model. We want better building regulations, the Minister...

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to share some of my reflections on what is happening during the Brexit negotiations, which are so critical for our country, our neighbours and our European Union. Like most of my colleagues in this House, I have spent two years looking at this inside out and upside down. We are no wiser about what will happen in the next six months than we were a year or two years...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Taoiseach said last week that the people of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway will be able to vote for their own directly-elected mayor. Will the Taoiseach outline if that is due to go to a plebiscite in each of those cities this October, or will that just proceed because the Government has made a call on it? When will we know what the powers and structures for that office will be? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is a floor price, not a carbon tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In the electricity market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Ms Donnelly never sees things as a problem but, rather, always as an opportunity, which is why she has been an inspiration to those involved in the semi-transition for many years and has risen to the very top of the public service. Her expertise is very highly regarded. I hope that our State will use it as best it can in tackling the significant challenge it faces. Specific and very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: May I ask a couple of short questions? As I stated, Ms Donnelly was involved at the highest level in the establishment of the Sustainable Energy for All programme, on which I think the commission did a good job. I liked the 2020 package developed by the commission but it has learned and changed its approach and the rates have evolved. We are subject to the new governance system and must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have one other suggestion. This has been hugely useful. Could the committee write to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and ask whether it has a draft plan yet and, if so, could the committee have a copy of it before it meets any of the Secretaries General?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In advance of that, could the committee see-----

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I join the other Deputies in congratulating Deputy Clare Daly, her team and the people who have been campaigning on the reporting of maternal deaths. I commend the Deputy on that work. I will not go into the details of it because it is not an area in which I have expertise but I hope they will not mind if I use the opportunity to raise an issue and, hopefully, raise amendments that we will...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I want to focus on one important political point that has not received much attention. There is a clear recognition that a mistake was made in 2011 when the HSE board was abolished. That mistake must be rectified and Dr. Scally puts that front and centre. I say this because to a certain extent, we must be careful that in our work we do not always view the public service as bad or believe...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have attended several of the BusConnects public consultation meetings and been glad that the engineers and planners have been willing to change. They have listened to people and recognised that where particular routes were not being served, there was a need to change. I commend them for the ability to flexible in thinking about how the plan might evolve. Unlike Fianna Fáil, I do not...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is what I read in it. I wish the Minister was here in the same way that the engineers and planners stayed at the meetings. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, but the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport should be here to do exactly what he expects his engineers and planners to do at those public meetings. The fact that he is not here...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will just go further with this point because I believe it is a critical public policy question currently. I shall hypothesise how it could work. I believe that emphasis in public housing particularly should be around the cost model. This has the benefit of retaining in State ownership and there is a future income stream that meets the pace for the capital upfront costs over time. Our...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The per capita budget is rising, mainly for roads that will lead to more sprawl with all of us living in Mullingar and commuting to Dublin according to the Minister of State at the Department of Defence. There is another big capital project that has not been funded and I am interested to know how we do this. Professor John FitzGerald at another Oireachtas committee said that for Ireland to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Or the sale of bank shares is revenue raising.