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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Herd Data (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We will engage in a detailed and respectful debate. We have to do this. It is important that we get the environmental and agricultural interests together. I believe we are allies, as I said at the conference the Minister held in Newbridge last week. However, there are certain things we stand by and I stand by John Sweeney when he says the 2.5 million additional animals have introduced to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The witnesses, including those from NERI and Dr. Healy, have all played a very important role in respect of this issue. The NESC report on cost rental has been hugely influential. Inchicore should be the first large-scale example of its deployment. We have a small project in Enniskerry but it is not big enough in scale. There is potential for this to change our entire housing model and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was also at the national economic dialogue and, in the discussions I had and in some of the public forum discussions, I heard many people calling for a cost rental model. I accept that more housing has been built but it is still a fraction of what we need. It is not a party political point when I say that I fundamentally disagree that we need to leave things as they are. We need a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the involvement his Department has for the development of alternative forestry strategies to assist the development and creation of jobs in rural areas and avoid isolation in rural communities in view the recent concerns relating to the concentration of new forestation in counties such as County Leitrim. [25903/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that would be raised by limiting the tax relief on a pension in cases in which that pension fund has already accumulated enough funds to provide a pension of €48,000 per annum. [32169/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount an increase in carbon tax from €20 per tonne to €40 per tonne would raise. [32170/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that would be raised by increasing diesel prices to the same level as petrol. [32172/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that would be raised by ending fossil fuel subsidies in sectors (details supplied). [32171/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that would be raised by introducing a levy of €2.50 per tonne on aggregates extracted from the ground such as rock, sand, gravel and so on used in the construction industry. [32173/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount it would cost to reduce the VRT rate on electric vehicles to 0%. [32175/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost of the section 481 film relief for the film production industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32159/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: School Meals Programme (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount it would cost to expand the school meals programme to include a daily hot meal for each school child in primary and secondary education. [32174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reintroducing ex-quota status of guidance provision in secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32155/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Fees (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to abolish fees for sitting the junior and leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32156/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing the recommendations of the McIver report of the steering group to the PLC review of 2003 on further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32157/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Expenditure (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost per annum of maintaining third level charges at their current rate for each year of the next five years; the cost of abolishing all such fees for each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32158/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initial cost of recruiting 2,000 new gardaí; and the cost per annum thereafter to maintain that additional number. [32162/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme Expenditure (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of a 5% increase in subsidies to existing and new participants on the organic farming scheme for produce in cereals, fruits, vegetables, legumes and other non-livestock based outputs. [32164/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Funding (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of a 20% increase in funding for sustainable horticulture research in Teagasc per annum. [32165/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated savings if Pillar 1 CAP payments were capped at €100,000 per annum. [32167/18]