Results 22,161-22,180 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings at the June 2018 European Council summit in Brussels. [29413/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I was the one who raised this issue. I wanted the committee to engage in further scrutiny of the proposal, against the advice in the Department's note, or the wider advice note. The provisions contained in this European draft directive mirror pretty much exactly, if the key provisions are boiled down, the provisions we set out in our Waste Reduction Bill, which the Dáil approved on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: One could say that it is both local and transboundary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: We have been working on this for a number of years; I am sure the Department has been working on it even longer. Our per capita plastic waste is twice the European average. We are facing a European tax system which may tax countries on the amount of plastic waste that is not recycled. This is not without consequence as well as being a local, environmental and transboundary environmental...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: We do not disagree on the range of other measures. The Minister has made it clear that he supports the various measures in our Bill and contained in the directive. The only point of difference is on how to get to 90% recycling of plastic bottles. What does Mr. Collins believe is the best option in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: The Department does not have a proposal as to how we would do this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: We have been debating this issue-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: This cross-questioning is useful because we have been refused public debate. I would love to be able to sit down and work out various cost estimates or, indeed, any other proposals. Thereafter, the Bill could be amended. A lot of very good work has been done, particularly including two international examples. While the Commission does not direct exactly which mechanism should be used,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Collins believe-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I am glad the Department has abandoned the idea of the pilot scheme, which I thought was mad. I was in Cashel last weekend and I wondered how we could possibly get any sort of scientific results from it other than having some kind cordon sanitairearound the town whereby we would know that the plastic bottles used there would remain there. I am glad the Department has moved away from that....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: The best way is the DRS. I would like to debate that with the Minister on Committee Stage but he refuses to do so. The majority of Members of the House agree with that view but they are being blocked by a Government which refused to even debate the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: No. I cannot agree with it. There clearly are subsidiarity issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I would not like the matter to be closed. I do not know how we could argue that it does not involve subsidiarity issues when it is clear that will be the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I would appreciate it if we could take that course of action. I thank the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I will be brief because a lot of the questions I wanted to ask have been asked. I commend RTÉ for what was really good investigative journalism and an important public service. That we are not strong on environmental regulations enforcement is something we can see at Government level. There is another report out today, the latest from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Another major international report published today, from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, calls out shamefully Ireland for its failure in green environmental issues. On many of the sustainable development goals we are doing well but in the red zone, where we are failing or going in the wrong direction, it cites our waste planning, waste management, climate action, ocean...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Will the Taoiseach not issue the money order and allow us to introduce or even just debate a waste-reduction Bill or does Fine Gael insist on dragging Ireland into the red zone-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: -----when it comes to looking after our environment? Yet again the Government has been called out and the country has been called out-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)
Eamon Ryan: -----for our lack of action. Will the Taoiseach allow us to debate how we might cut the waste?