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Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am very glad to be able to join the debate on this critical issue for our country and our people of how to get affordable housing. I listened to the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Coveney, replying on Leaders' Questions to questions on housing. At several points in his answers, he said the Government was open to new initiatives and ideas. I was screaming in my office as I watched on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (29 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the DART underground is not included in the National Development Plan; and if the reports on which the decision was made not to include it will be provided. [14592/18]

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Politics sometimes boils down to yes-no questions and how one would vote on something. We are not voting on this issue of the expelling of Russian diplomats but, in effect, by setting out one's position, one has to answer in a sense here a yes-no question as to whether we support a particular measure or not. Sometimes one would seek a preferendum where one could have a variety of options...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings at the European Council. [14207/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The intervention on the planning matter was wrong for so many reasons. First, why did the Taoiseach decide to put this country on the same side as Trump? It was well known at the time that Trump had been in a ten-year war against wind farms. Taking a position on this said a lot about this country and our position. It was such a mistake, to my mind, and the process was all wrong. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The reason I bring the Ceann Comhairle into this is that the Speaker of the House of Commons said that such an invitation was not necessarily a privilege that would be easily handed out. Therefore, my question is, if President Trump does come, how do we decide whether he comes to this House?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with President Trump. [13951/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The UK Government has just announced that it will introduce a deposit refund scheme for glass and plastic bottles and aluminium cans. We are working at the joint committee on progressing the Waste Reduction Bill, which we presented last July and which reached Second Stage at that time. It is slowly coming to its end and I am confident we will have the numbers in the House to support a...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Our legislation is of perfectly sufficient quality.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to request the British Government to convene an Intergovernmental Conference between the British and Irish Governments in respect of Northern Ireland; and the proposed agenda for such a conference. [14460/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I seek as an honest an assessment as the Tánaiste can give on the possibility of calling a British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference as one of the potential mechanisms for unlocking the current impasse in the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. As we approach the 20th anniversary of the establishment of this incredible structure, it is particularly sad that the Good Friday...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Earlier this week. I spoke with my Green Party colleagues in the North, Stephen Agnew, MLA, and Clare Bailey, MLA, who gave a harsh assessment of what is happening. They are in constant contact with various community groups and other organisations that are effectively shutting up shop because the budgetary process is continuing and they are not receiving funding. The whole mechanism of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: While the Good Friday Agreement was a huge leap forward and set a great international example, it was not without flaws. For some time, the Green Party has been calling for a constitutional convention involving ordinary citizens in Northern Ireland similar to the Citizens' Assembly. We need to recognise that a range of mechanisms in the Northern Ireland administration and assembly need to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made a request to the British Government to convene an inter-governmental conference between the British and Irish Governments in relation to Northern Ireland; and if so, the proposed agenda for such a conference. [14220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Investigations (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's position regarding the EU Ombudsman’s recommendations of 9 February 2018 to end maladministration of the documents of Council; and his views on the EU Ombudsman’s recommendations. [12791/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (28 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will expel Russian diplomats following the nerve agent attack in the United Kingdom; the information the Government has received relating to the incident; and if the Government expects a response in kind from the Russian Government to action taken. [14461/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the arrangements for the papal visit in August 2018. [14206/18]

Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am very pleased to be able to support this Bill presented by the Labour Party and to reflect on some of its provisions. This legislation represents exactly the type of reform we should be looking to make to our public services. I will start with a couple of personal anecdotes that reflect my perspective. I studied business studies in UCD in the early 1980s. On my first day my first...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: This is an extremely important moment in the history of Ireland. As we find our former friends and allies in Washington and London drifting off in the direction of economic nationalism, we must reassert our place in Europe. Last week's events in Washington will be as important as the meeting of the European Council later this week. The controversy surrounding remarks made by the Taoiseach...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On the national broadband plan and the Minister's statement that he hopes to have a preferred bidder by September, is there a competitive element to the process such that a preferred bidder will be able to contract the use of telephone or electricity poles in providing fibre broadband for houses? If so, will the competitive element follow the selection of the preferred bidder or will it...