Results 23,221-23,240 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Why can I not ask my question?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I can ask my question.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Could the clock be stopped so that I have time to ask the question?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I am acting in a dignified fashion, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Can I ask the question?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Can we restart the clock because I have not had the time to ask it?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: We are drowning in plastic.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: The use of plastic has increased 25-fold in my lifetime.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: It is growing at 5% per annum. Some 150 million tonnes of that plastic is now in our seas. We are adding a dump truck every minute. We have to stop this and cut out the waste. It is not easy. It takes attention. This is vital to the question of how much people have to pay, because rather than having to pay for all that and work out whether it is recycling, which most of it is not when...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: -----such as bioplastic bases, which are usable.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Can I ask my question?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I am not being disrespectful. I am just trying to make a point. I also recognise that we have done a lot of good. We have increased our recycling over the last 15 or 20 years. However, at this point when the householder is going to have to pay for all that stuff that goes into the black bin, will the Taoiseach and his Government introduce and support the Waste Reduction Bill that we have...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Will the Taoiseach support our Bill, give a 10 cent deposit back on these bottles and containers and cut out these coffee cups so that we help people to reduce the amount of waste they create?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Investment Bank (5 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on proposed changes to the governance structure of the European Investment Bank that would allow the bank to lend to the armaments industries; and his views on the matter. [31483/17]
- Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: There are certain things about which we are in agreement. We want to stop putting material into landfill. That is something we agree with but we do not think that is sufficient. We need to go further, particularly in the promotion of recycling and reusing and creating a new circular economy that can create jobs as well as improving our environment. Our amendments today are geared towards...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Digital Hub Development Agency: Chairman Designate (4 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I welcome Mr. Holden and apologise for being a little late. I missed the very start of his presentation. I have always been a sympathetic supporter of the Digital Hub. I think it was in the late 1990s or early 2000s that it was initially conceptualised by, if I recall correctly, Mr. Ahern. It seems that the Digital Hub has always had involvement with over 90 companies and has always had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Will Brexit have implications for how media being beamed into Ireland from the UK are managed? Does the BAI have a role in regulating that? Are there British broadcasters or others who have come to the BAI looking for licensing or engaged in informal discussions with regard to establishing a business here if Brexit transpires, which it looks like it will? The witnesses do not have to name...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Does Brexit have implications for large satellite operators such as Sky? Will their regulatory situation change if Britain leaves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: The legislation does not quite go into the question of whether Sky should be able to carry RTE free. We do not give RTE the power to charge for use of its content. Does the BAI have a recommendation on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Eamon Ryan: It is the same for Virgin.