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

Eamon Ryan: I would like the officials to be more ambitious and more wide-ranging. They should be measuring what we have stopped doing as well as what we have started. They should review the strategic decisions to actually change expenditure. That is just one example. I am asking them to come back with much more creative, imaginative details and not just a statistical checklist for each Department....

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister intimated in a response to Deputy Kelly that he is moving to thinking that we would need a wider commission of investigation or inquiry. Does he think that would work best in conjunction with the HIQA inquiry or following it? What type of vehicle does he think would be most appropriate for that type of investigation?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It appears that there is no difference between the number of false negatives or positives among those smear tests done in the US centres versus Irish centres. The point was made yesterday that the US one-year testing system is different from our three-year system. Does the Minister believe that is of consequence up to now, or to the quality of screening we were using?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister rightly said that shocking notes had been left on the files of those 162 cases where patients had not been informed. Has he had a chance to read the 46 where patients were informed? What characterised the different approaches, whereby a limited number of patients were given the history of the audit as against the 162 who were not? Is there any trend or pattern as to why some...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We owe it to Vicky Phelan, her family and her courage and honesty to correctly set up a means through which to find out what happened, who was responsible, and how we can avoid it happening again. I have listened to various views expressed in that regard. I have a concern about the view that we should opt for a commission of inquiry because all Members know that in spite of constant...

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The number of cases being taken against the State increased from 6,000 in 2011 to 8,600 in 2016, which are the latest figures we have, and the compensation paid out increased by 20% in the last year for which we have figures. Almost 90%, the vast majority, of the State claims and compensation are in this area of health and childcare, through Tusla and the HSE. Does the Government have any...

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Would the Minister think about it?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 May 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the administrative cost of means-testing each social welfare payment which is subject to means-testing in 2016 and 2017; the cost of administering all non-means tested social welfare payments in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19117/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Organic Farming Scheme (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Has the Minister of State a view on what our level of ambition should be? If the Minister of State opened an unencumbered scheme tomorrow, as he stated, he would see ten times that number applying. There are real questions as to how we would do it to develop horticulture and tillage, as well as beef and sheep, which have been particularly popular up to this point. In any consultation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Organic Farming Scheme (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will reopen the organic farming scheme; his plans for organic farming here; and the percentage of produce here that is organically grown. [18437/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Organic Farming Scheme (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We are advertising the country by means of the Origin Green programme, which is right as we have the potential to be a really green agricultural country, but that is not helped by the fact that when it comes to the league table for organic production we are second last in Europe. That beggars belief in a period when, according to a recent assessment by Bord Bia, the market is growing by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Organic Farming Scheme (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome the consultation which I saw on the website, although we must be quick as people are waiting. It is difficult to make a contribution to the consultation when one does not know the Minister's views. The Minister of State outlined that 1.7% of land in this country is in organic production at the moment. The average in the European Union is 7%. Does he think we should have that...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Amendments Nos. 10, 16, 23 and 24 have been ruled out of order, which I do not understand. The amendments relate to the function of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, in terms of managing the risks from radon, which is a radiological protection risk. I understand that an amendment which does not relate to the purpose of the Bill may be ruled out of order but the aforementioned...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How can I appeal this ruling? This is not an insignificant issue. In fact, it is probably the most significant issue in terms of radiological protection risks. It is estimated that there are 200 lives-----

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As I have to be in the Dáil Chamber to deal with parliamentary questions to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I will not be here for the whole meeting. I would welcome the opportunity to meet the Chairman and-or the departmental officials with a view discussing how the amendments could be resubmitted on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: As I may not be here when the relevant section is reached, I will follow up the possibility of resubmitting them on Report Stage with the Bills Office and with the Chairman, as suggested. It beggars belief that they have been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 3:In page 9, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:“and (iv) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (k):"(l) to report annually to the Oireachtas on the implementation of the National Radon Control Strategy or any successor strategy.",". I will broaden the point I made earlier. One of our concerns is that we are not paying...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I listened with intent to the Minister. I was slightly confused because he said at the start it is not possible to accept this amendment because the radon strategy reports are not statutory and therefore we cannot have a statutory provision. At the end he says he is willing to lay the reports he has to hand before the Oireachtas, which in a sense is exactly what we are looking to do with...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will press the amendment.