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Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Citizens' Assembly today published its report on climate change. Anyone who was present for its work on the issue would say it did a fantastic job. It got the best people in to give an overview of the relevant science and solutions, and came up with practical solutions in the areas of transport, agriculture and energy commensurate with the scale of the challenge we face. What does the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (18 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take in relation to the requests from Dublin City Council following the receiver seeking to reduce the amount of social housing in the Poolbeg SDZ; if all materials, correspondence and records related to the Poolbeg SDZ within his Department will be released; and if he will attend Dublin City Council...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am love-bombing the Rural Independent Group.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: They have to come around. I hope I can bring them around to the thought that I hear from different people, including people in Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party, the socialist parties and Sinn Féin. There is an understanding. We hear it in the House and I have heard it on the radio as well. I have heard farmers saying they are over-stocking, that it is not working and that they have...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Let us look at higher value products rather than trying to compete with others. Yesterday on "Morning Ireland" I heard someone say it was great that we will be competing with Brazil. Those in Brazil will have their own problems because climate change is a global issue and everyone is going to have to grapple with how to change with the natural world. For those of us on this green island,...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I follow that by saying that those of us in urban Ireland do care-----

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: -----about rural Ireland. I agree fully with the Deputy that when farmers are doing well, this country does well. We have to protect our farming community. We support the motion from Fianna Fáil. That comes from personal reflection. At Christmas, I visited a sheep farmer in County Donegal. He is a hardworking, capable individual and he was just broken as he split open another bag...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have heard it-----

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will tell the Kerry Deputies why I think is the way to go. Much of our money comes from the European Union. Many of the cheques that farmers receive originate from measures relating to the CAP. I listen to the European Commissioner, Mr. Phil Hogan, when he comes back here and says that. He would not, from a Green perspective, be my favourite persons but he came back and gave a clear...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will start with water if the Deputy wants. I think we should be paying for-----

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am not distracted at all.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No, I would happily answer on the issue of water. We should be paying farmers in respect of four things and we should start with water management. Earlier today, we published a river management study that shows we are going wrong. We will not acknowledge our flooding problem simply by draining every river or by concentrating on drainage in general. Really clever management of the land...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is exactly what I am saying. Farmers should get paid for managing our water systems.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Farmers should also get paid----

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: -----for restoring biodiversity to our land. We are having an ecological crisis. We are losing our birds, insect life and mammals. That has to stop. Farmers should be at the forefront and are the perfect people to be there in terms of looking after our natural system. They should be paid for that. We should also pay them for storing carbon. The great advantage with storing carbon,...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am not antagonising at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Chancellor Merkel. [13952/18]

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Forget what?

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will happily account for my time in office if the Taoiseach answers my questions.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Taoiseach still has a minute and a half of his time left; perhaps he might use it to say something more on the issue.