Results 22,461-22,480 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I hope I have not abused my position as Acting Chairman. It is my first time as Acting Chairman and it will probably be my last. I ask Mr. McDonald to forward the correspondence to which we referred to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Developments at Hinkley Point C Power Plant: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I thank the witnesses for attending in order to take part in this worthwhile engagement. I propose that the committee publish the opening statements and submissions on its website. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I have a short question.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I have another meeting at 3 p.m. It is an excellent presentation. The 13 companies paying 1% or less jumped out at me, along with the statement that the main element behind it is the double tax relief arrangements and the research and development tax credit, to a lesser extent I would imagine. The witness states the review of the tax cut last year indicated we should move away from the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Would that change satisfy European colleagues who seem to be calling for taxes on large digital companies to be paid in their jurisdiction? It would see an increase in the tax applying in other European countries where the European headquarters is in Ireland. Has the Government indicated a commitment to moving to such a territorial scheme? Is it agreed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I very much appreciate the opportunity to come in. As Deputy Catherine Murphy said earlier, we have been soldiering on this specific issue for 25 years and, trust me, it is not going away. It will be centre stage in this country and city and there is a huge amount of work to be done. I am never late, and I was not late in the morning, because I cycle in, but I dare anyone to take the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I am sorry but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Fair enough. I do not mean anything personal. It is the institutions and the policy that make me angry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: It is 25 years of frustration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I do not mean to be personal. It is the institutional policy leadership based on what I have been presented with here, which is the continuing investment in motorway upgrades on the approaches to the city in response to the congestion problem in the city. What is presented as the response is not the right response. It is that leadership-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I wish to finish my points. My frustration is due to the fact that if we went the alternative route and invested in cycling, as Deputy Troy said, with a high-quality, first-class network of cycling super highways in and around the city, it would do more than anything else to tackle the congestion problem. In all journeys from the centre of the city to a distance of 4 km a bicycle will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I am very glad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: It was not mandated by the inspector. The 2014 demand management report did not fulfil the inspector's conditions as set out in the initial report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I have a related question. Mr. Creegan says that he is responsible for overall strategic transport planning but as we have heard today the road section is the responsibility of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII. The National Transport Authority, NTA, has responsibility for public transport but not for roads. I return to my central point that we are tackling congestion in Dublin by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: According to Transport Infrastructure Ireland, all the investment in the next ten years is in road widening of approach roads.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: That is what it says here in the document I have before me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I will finish this point as it is critical. No one disagrees about roads investment for safety and so on, however, let us look at what is happening in the next ten years. There is BusConnects but we will widen the blackspot at Kilmacanogue which will increase the volume of traffic coming from Wexford and Wicklow into Dublin. We will widen the Naas to Newbridge -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I do not doubt that the National Transport Authority wants to promote cycling. I agree with Mr. Creegan that the BusConnects project offers us a real opportunity to get the radial routes and hopefully some orbital routes as well, but we should not underestimate the real difficulty of that. To date we have seen, for example, on the Clontarf route the difficulty in getting that right and not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Surely the chief executive of the National Transport Authority has authority over Transport Infrastructure Ireland, in the sense the NTA has to drive the strategic plan, which is stopping the sprawl, getting back to the core, building public transport and, critically, walking and cycling because that is the forgotten solution. Why is it that TII, and it seems from the body language that TII...