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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chair for allowing me to speak now because I am due to attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment which will shortly begin. I very much welcome this discussion, which is a good example of the work this committee can do. I asked the Taoiseach earlier today about the Government's approach on this issue. Perhaps the officials could...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was not involved in 2012. The tax commission believed that there was real economic rationale behind a site value tax but that administrative difficulties would arise. In 2012, it feared that the real concentration was on the immediate task of getting a very quick revenue boost for the State, which was in significant financial difficulty. Is there not a case, on the basis of what the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Hogan is not going to look at the idea of a site value tax.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I add my words of sympathy to the family of the late Dolores O'Riordan who was a great artist. As John F. Kennedy said, great artists are often solitary figures who have a lover's quarrel with the world, but we will miss her now that she is gone. We think of her family who must miss her the most. Ten days ago the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy,...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Not true.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1315. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the outcome for the majority of licencing options which will be concluding between the end of February and the end of June 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1812/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1324. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of the 28 granted licensing options that are progressing to frontier exploration licences, in tabular form. [1821/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1316. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of extracting oil from Irish marine waters that his Department is using as a basis for the national energy projections. [1813/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1329. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of extracting oil from the Kish basin and the Porcupine basin. [1826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1330. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which oil deposits from the Kish basin will be processed, if onshore or offshore; and the details of his discussions with the industry, including a company (details supplied) on this matter. [1827/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1317. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation including particular fields have been afforded the status of national strategic importance; and the reasons for designating or not designating the sector as such. [1814/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1318. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated yield from oil and gas deposits by barrel and price; and the likelihood of finding deposits in each field in terms of a ratio, for example, 30 to 1 chance and so on. [1815/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1319. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which Ireland’s EU and UN commitments to mitigate climate change are considered as part of his Department’s efforts to promote exploitation of offshore hydrocarbon resources, including the commitment under the Paris Agreement to engage in global efforts to keep a global temperature rise...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1320. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of consents to drill his Department will be issuing in 2018, by month, day, name of licence, name of company and contractor, name of field and the stated likelihood of finding oil or gas deposits, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1817/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1321. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of consents to drill his Department issued in 2015, 2016 and 2017, by month, year, name of licence, name of company and contractor, name of field; if oil or gas was found in each well, if appropriate assessments or environmental impact assessments were conducted for that particular licence; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Seismic Surveys (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1322. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of seismic acquisitions conducted by the State and others from 2010, by month, year, survey area name, project code, name of relevant licence, survey identification, company and contractor conducting the survey, in tabular form. [1819/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1323. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process by which his Department considers if an environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment is required for offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation; if impacts in terms of carbon emissions are considered (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1820/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1325. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the processes in place to independently monitor the environmental and climate impacts of the offshore oil and gas industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1822/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1326. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if companies engaging in offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation are required to guarantee supply to the State or sell resources at a reduced rate to the State or Irish companies. [1823/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Corrib Gas Field (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 1327. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of tax revenue the State has collected from the Corrib gas project by tax on labour, tax on profits and tax on resources; the amount of tax that has been written off against company costs related to the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1824/18]