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

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he plans to take to achieve the measure that 100% of plastics are recyclable and that 50% of such materials are recycled by 2030 as per the EU plastics strategy; and the timeframe for the introduction of such measures. [24175/18]

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

Eamon Ryan: I ask the Minister to outline how we will completely change our plastics system. The European Commission was out earlier in the week on one aspect, that of single-use plastic, but we have to go far beyond that and tackle a whole range of different issues. This morning we hear the plan of this Government is to burn our waste. An incinerator is to be built in Cork, there is one in Limerick...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: One of the things I learned in the last few weeks of the campaign was that compassion is not an exclusive commodity. By its nature, it is open and sharing and it belongs to everyone. The people I met canvassing, mainly young women who had not been involved in politics before and who were energised by the campaign, had such compassion for themselves, their sisters and friends who had been in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Transmission Network (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had discussions with the ESB regarding the potential use of the electrical grid network to deliver fibre broadband to homes as part of the national broadband plan; and the way in which the process would cater for such a possibility. [23964/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating Administration (31 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to meet the objective of 45,000 houses retrofitted in 2021 as outlined in the National Development Plan 2018-2020; the number of those 45,000 that will be classified as deep retrofits; and the plans or schemes he is putting in place to achieve this deep retrofitting. [23965/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay for a very interesting presentation. My comments are not in order of importance but just as they come to me. On the issue of labour activation and supporting the social benefits derived from it, there is a concern in some circles that the agenda being pushed by the European Commission and OECD discriminates against those who decide to stay at home and raise...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Martínez Mongay stated we should broaden our tax base to support environmental objectives. Does he have specific examples in mind?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I come back on that point? I agree fully and we should-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Parents who stay at home forego income. The cost they bear is the income they do not receive. If dual income becomes the standard in an economy, house prices increase to the extent that the person who forgoes income is unable to buy a house. For this reason, should the provision not be to support both parents or to leave the choice to parents? One side should not be neglected because in a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I very much agree with the concept of a rainy day fund because counter-cyclic economics make sense. We have a Parliamentary Budget Office, which did a good report on that. Its recommendation was that it only makes sense if, within the fiscal rules, such a fund can be used in future years to provide fiscal flexibility. I asked the Minister for Finance when he appeared before the committee...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The programme for Government should focus on the future. I will be seeking the Taoiseach's support over the next six months on the issue of climate change. The Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment will be considering the Citizens' Assembly report on climate change. I hope the committee's recommendation will be that we set up a short-term committee which...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Many of us shared the relief expressed by Deputy Clare Daly in the House yesterday on having got through the recent referendum. Perhaps the last thing we might want to face is the prospect of another referendum in October but that is what the Government has committed to on the wording around blasphemy in the Constitution, the role of women in the home and an instruction for a plebiscite for...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 30. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister in Sofia. [22705/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans in relation to forestry in the context of the new European climate and energy plan under preparation. [23800/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (30 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role of his Department in relation to the development of the European climate and energy plan. [23788/18]

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Yesterday the European Commission set out a whole series of new rules to discourage single-use plastics across the EU. The rules have been put forward to the Parliament and are proposed to be obligatory. They mirror exactly the provisions contained in our Waste Reduction Bill 2017. Last week the committee voted to put that Bill through to Committee Stage. 3 o’clock It is clear...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I want to back Deputy Coppinger. She is absolutely right. We should give it time.

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am sharing with Deputy Róisín Shortall. We have a chance to think big with these Brexit debates. I want to take that opportunity. This morning, I was watching a YouTube video of an interview that the BBC did last night with Mr. Steve Bannon. It was a fascinating 25-minute video in which he set out the case for economic nationalism and trumpeted the Trump regime as having...

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am sorry. No, he does not. He is a bit like President Trump. He has hair that would qualify as a hat on occasion.

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The weird fallacy is that the Brexiteers are looking after the working class; they are the economic nationalists and they will make Britain great again by going into the form of globalised trading that has caused the problem. There is a subterfuge happening in those arguments both in Britain and America. The Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, and the Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign...