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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if different route alignments on the MetroLink proposal project that is in public consultation at the moment will be considered including a spur to Rathfarnham and alternative approaches to the upgrading of the green line to metro status. [25402/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Seismic Surveys (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1041. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and type of licences and seismic survey activities for which he has exercised his power under the European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Petroleum Exploration) Regulations 2013 to request an environmental impact assessment, EIA, or a stage 2 appropriate assessment, AA, for exploration...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Seismic Surveys (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1042. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and type of exploration activities for which he has exercised his power under the European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Petroleum Exploration) Regulations 2013 to request an Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA, or stage 2 appropriate assessment, AA; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Seismic Surveys (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1043. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has conducted a cumulative analysis of seismic impacts on Irish sea life from 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [25691/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Seismic Surveys (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1044. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of seismic surveys that have been conducted in Irish waters since 2011; the level of environmental assessment each received; if powers under European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Petroleum Exploration) Regulations 2013 to request an EIA or stage 2 AA for exploration...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Seismic Surveys (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1045. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of seismic surveys that will be conducted in 2018 in Irish waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25693/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1046. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the commitments his Department has made on work programmes for exploration licences and their extensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25694/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Seismic Surveys (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1047. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will be making changes to guidelines for ocean seismic testing in view of new evidence published in 2017 and 2018 on the deadly impacts it can have on krill and zooplankton populations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25695/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bioenergy Strategy Publication (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1048. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1146 of 21 March 2017 and 215 of 13 December 2017, when the strategic environmental assessment of the national bioenergy plan, which was drafted in 2014 and has remained in draft form since, will be published and put to public consultation; the reason for the disruption to the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seismic Surveys (12 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1353. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will be making changes to National Parks and Wildlife Service guidelines for ocean seismic testing in view of new evidence published in 2017 and 2018 on the deadly impacts it can have on krill and zooplankton populations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25696/18]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have always said it.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If I am the only person to say politicians should have some role, I will happily take that angle. From experience, Ministers do have something to offer. They are setting strategy and policy and want to take the country in a certain direction. Why would we abandon having any power at all? My understanding was that the final arbitration was at the Cabinet, that the Minister had a choice...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I feel compelled to contribute because it seems from what we have just heard that this Bill is getting worse. My concern all along was that our Judiciary would be insulted as an unintended, or maybe intended in some quarters, consequence of the process of this Bill. What I have just heard goes further, in the sense that we are demeaning politics now as well. Under the structure or process...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is a black day for the environment. This morning it was announced that in the Tánaiste's own Cork Harbour there is to be a 250,000 tonne incinerator. This is completely against modern European policy or any sort of circular economy. This afternoon we are hearing from the EPA that effectively we are going to have no emissions reductions by 2020. Everything this Government is doing...

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: What about peat?

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is not doing enough. We are not being ambitious enough. We are not thinking big enough. The sum of €1.5 million will not cut it. The climate figures being announced today are shocking in respect of how this State, this Government and the previous Government in particular have abandoned ambition. We are not thinking big enough and not thinking into the future. In my...

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Put in ten-----

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The symbol of one charging point for the Dáil is an example of why this is not the required scale of change. Perhaps people cannot see that at the moment. It is very hard to get an electric vehicle at the moment. A person who wants to buy one probably could not get one because the order book is so long. The whole world is going in this direction. That is now a rock solid guarantee....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Recycling Policy (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am very glad to hear that. I was also thrilled to hear the EU proposals this week because they mirror exactly what is in our waste reduction Bill. We were a year ahead of the Commission on the key things, including a ban on single use items like knives, forks and cotton tips, tackling single use cups and containers, the proposal for a 15 cent latte levy on plastic cups to fund the compost...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Recycling Policy (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We have to make sure the system is right for Irish circumstances, but we also have to make sure that we are not afraid of pushing the industry. In the case of a deposit refund scheme the latest research we have shows that our companies are paying only 0.2% per container towards the recycling system. We think that should rise to the European average, if not slightly higher. That is the...