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Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The budget has missed an opportunity. Thank God we are in the situation of having a balanced budget and the ability to introduce additional expenditure and tax measures. However, the budget has introduced a range of small measures with no vision, purpose or sense of anything being done differently. Some measures are to be welcomed. It is very welcome that the idea of my colleague, Deputy...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad to say I am young enough, or I am not too old, that I cannot remember. My filter on Liam Cosgrave was through "Hall's Pictorial Weekly". When I think of Liam Cosgrave, that is where I go. God, I suppose it was not very flattering. It was interesting. I did meet him in recent years and it shattered that vision of a grey man. It is funny, he was very different. What Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On fines, will the Minister update the joint committee on the position regarding the agreement with the European Union on greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030? I understand that the imposition or timing of fines depends largely on whether Ireland, by 2020, is considered to have started from where we should have been or where are actual position is. The outcome of this assessment in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will it be a qualified majority vote or do we have a veto? I presume it will be decided by a qualified majority vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I understand the strong position of France and Germany, in particular, is that it should be determined by where we will be in 2020.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister plans to go from the current rate of 9% to 15% within two years. How much of that change will be accounted for by increasing the mandatory requirement for biofuels in petrol? Given the scale of the fines Ireland is facing for its failure to tackle climate change, if the Minister is negotiating with the French and German Governments on the basic premise that Ireland should not...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to develop offshore wind energy in Irish waters; and the way in which he plans to integrate the transmission of connectors to such wind farms with additional electricity interconnectors to other electricity markets. [41905/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (4 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to support the roll out of rapid charge points for electric vehicles. [41904/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that have been taken on the provision of an affordable housing scheme for the Poolbeg SDZ as agreed by his Department; the discussions that have taken place with Dublin city council regarding same; and the discussions that have taken place with developers on the progress on developing such a scheme. [41828/17]

UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will take that slot, if I may.

UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is either that or I do my impression of Deputy Catherine Murphy. I am happy to debate this critical issue. We are coming back to it again and again, and rightly so, because it is very important. I spend a lot of time giving out to the Government, which is a valid thing for an Opposition to do, but I wanted to compliment it on taking the correct approach this summer. It was right, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the talks he has had with the British Prime Minister on Brexit over the course of the summer recess. [39688/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chairman for letting me in early. I have to go to a meeting in UCD so will have to leave shortly after I ask my questions. I apologise for that. I am very conscious we are all men present with the exception of the Chairman, which is a bit unfortunate. I have very good friends on this committee but sometimes when I am listening to our budget analysis, I think it is all about...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, that is my first question. Will the Minister introduce a site value tax as recommended by the ESRI to stop the sprawl? Most economists come out with the need for a carbon tax. I have been in favour of a carbon tax but it will not give us the massive scale of change we need to meet the issue of climate change. We need to go beyond that with radical reinvestment or by changing our...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Minister introduce a basic income on a test basis by taking a couple of towns in the country where it would not cost us a huge amount, as was recommended in that book, to try it out and see how it might work?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Does the Minister see we have a long way to go?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will take the Minister up on that. We should set up a scheme where communities could come to the Minister. My understanding of the national planning framework is that it should come from the bottom up. Communities could come to the Minister and ask him to use them as test case examples. We need to start being innovative and think differently, outside the box. We should not just think...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Does the Minister mean the cycle lane from Clontarf outwards?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We cannot complete the cycle lane moving inwards.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The lane is stuck in planning.