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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Collins referred to the ObSERVE programme. I had the great privilege of visiting High Island of the west coast, near Clifden where they were monitoring Manx shearwater, but it is the same with the puffin population or any other sea birds. They had to fly out hundreds of miles to their feeding grounds. It is complex. It may be changing because of climate or overfishing, for instance,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We are really in much deeper trouble than we thought we were. The International Energy Agency acknowledged that for the Paris Agreement we might have to consume 500 plus gigatons, and on known existing reserves there were 3,000 gigatons of fossil fuels accessible to us. In countries such as Venezuela, Canada and the US we know shale gas is extractable at $40 a barrel. The Professor is now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The atmosphere cannot tell where the gas comes from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If a gas field was found out in the Porcupine Ridge - not Slyne, because I am told there is nothing close to that - how would it be brought to shore? Would it be brought via a pipeline or on board a ship?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have asked producers how a pipeline would work economically if it was that far out, and have been told that it would not be economic. If it was oil brought ashore on a ship, where would it go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: There is no guarantee it would land here. I understand that Whitegate takes very light crude. Is that the case?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Human Rights (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken or will take over the widely reported issue of migrant family separations in the United States of America to help alleviate the situation. [29420/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 26 April 2018, when a reply will issue. [29419/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 476. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a digital copy of his Department's monthly expenditure report to the end of June 2018. [29425/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Papal Visit (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the papal visit in August 2018. [26557/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Papal Visit (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Taoiseach for those details. With regard to the reception in Dublin Castle where the President, the Taoiseach and the diplomatic corps will attend a visit by Pope Francis where he will give a speech, is it expected that leaders of party groups here will be invited to the event? What is the mechanism if someone is interested in going? Obviously, space will be limited but I am...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I too was glad to be at the national economic dialogue. I heard the Taoiseach's speech setting out the vision for the country. I thought it was disgraceful that the Taoiseach never once mentioned the need to protect our environment or change our reputation in that regard. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, who also spoke, tried to restore the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is a small thing.

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is really small.

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: There are many others.

Other Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received further correspondence from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in regard to convening the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28057/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (27 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the new initiatives the EU plans to pursue; if the EU will take a stronger role in seeking resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following the announcement made by the United States of America that its embassy would be moved to Jerusalem. [28058/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (26 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the leader of Fianna Fáil for that courtesy. We need a land use plan that sets out how we will protect and develop diversity. Critically, if we get it right it will champion human diversity and life in rural Ireland. There was a meeting on Friday night in Leitrim, where communities are utterly despondent and do not see a future. They see their area covered in tree plantations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (26 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Look at the Burren.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (26 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: They go together.