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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: This amendment goes to the heart of my argument. What is the problem the Minister is seeking to address in this section and the Bill as a whole? That is what I am trying to tease out. The Minister can correct me if I am wrong in my understanding that her intention is to address road safety issues. This is a proposal to improve road safety. I do not understand. I do not believe the...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am trying to understand what the Minister is saying. Why is she seeking to harmonise legislation and reduce confusion in August without applying the same harmonising provisions in March, April, May, June and July, as well as August? Why is there a specific need to harmonise in August and not in the other months?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Why are we amending the relevant provision in the Wildlife Acts to change the provisions that apply in August?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is the Attorney General saying we have to remove the provisions that apply in August-----

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Minister expand on that? I know that we cannot obtain the advice of the Attorney General, but I do not quite understand. The Minister has said the advice of the Attorney General is that we need to harmonise the legislative provisions included in the Road Acts and the Wildlife Acts.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: To be clear, what is the policy imperative behind the change in the provisions that apply in the month of August? What is the policy objective in that regard?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I worked in tourism for 15 years. I never met a tourist who did not like hedgerows and did not feel a slight sense of loss when we were taking them out. It seems from what the Minister has said that the main argument in favour of this measure is to facilitate contractors to get the work done. The Minister has mentioned that another of the reasons for making this change is the fact that the...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I question the statistics just quoted by the Minister. I have been told, and I believe the research was done by the national hedgerow database, that 19% of randomly selected hedgerows were found to be roadside hedges, not 2%. Having spoken with people involved in the preservation of our hedgerow system, which is under threat for a variety of reasons, there is recognition that roadside...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No, anyone can do it.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Where would the 6.5% figure come from?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: From where did the 2% figure come?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment no. 27:In page 12, line 28, after “to” to insert “paragraph (2)(b) or subsection (9)”.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017 to require landlords to test for radon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19872/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Mitigation Plan (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the term "non-zero emission vehicle" in regard to the commitment in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 encompasses vehicles equipped with a combustion engine regardless of fuel and other propulsion systems which may also be installed, such that no new hybrid propulsion vehicles that include a combustion engine...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Mitigation Plan (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 411. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for delaying the ban on sales of non-zero emission vehicles until 2030 in view of the large and accumulating overshoot of carbon dioxide emissions from the transport sector relative to EU targets and the temperature goals for the Paris Agreement; and his costed plans for drawing down the corresponding...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 412. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department's planned renewable energy system's capacity estimated to be installed here in percentage of the power mix for the years 2030 and 2035. [20113/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycle to Work Scheme Data (8 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 426. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the latest figures for persons cycling to work; the amount the bike to work scheme costs to run; and if he has carried out a cost-benefit analysis of the scheme. [20112/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (3 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount his Department is projected to spend in each quarter of 2018 in local authority builds, approved housing body builds and acquisitions units under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, in tabular form. [19326/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the presentation. I may have got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning such that the witnesses should take what I am about to say with that caveat. I love the Irish Civil Service. If I was advising my children on their career options, I would tell them to into the public service or the Civil Service because young people can avail of major opportunities and learn a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: May I speak briefly?