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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Minerals Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: My question goes back to our recent Private Members’ Bill relating to fracking, which has gone through Committee Stage. A question arose relating to exploration at sea and whether it would apply. My question is more specific. An example might arise in the Irish Sea. Let us suppose there was a seam of coal in a sub-sea area and someone was looking to extract it by various means....

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Minerals Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The provisions of this Bill will apply in those circumstances. It is not a hypothetical question, there is apparently a coal seam out in the Irish Sea which has been considered for a long time. I do not think we should be doing any exploration for any fossil fuels any more. We have to put an end to all our offshore exploration for fuels from a climate perspective but that is a real...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Minerals Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a related matter, in answering questions raised during the debate on the Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016, we dealt exclusively with onshore fracking. I do not know if there is any example where fracking offshore is possible - it would seem to be technically impossible - but if there were an offshore fracking development, would that also...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Business of Committee (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I too commend the Minister and his officials on getting a long-awaited Bill through Committee Stage. I have one question, which I meant to ask earlier. Will somebody explain the difference between a mineral compound versus a mineral? I was particularly interested in this in respect of the amendment to the Tax Consolidation Act 1997. I would like to have a layman's understanding of the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Business of Committee (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is just a small quirky thing but I would be happy if the Department were to contact me before Report Stage.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to Canada and any discussions that took place regarding CETA. [22107/17]

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: As we speak, the Minister for Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, is meeting councillors from Dublin City Council on the issue of the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ, which is a huge site that is very important to the development of housing in this city.

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The city manager said last week that it is clear there could not be anything more than 10% social housing on the site because that was the legislative limit set. Is it considering or how would the Government introduce a raising of that legislative limit for other sites also but particularly for this SDZ site on which it is vital we have social housing in an area where the likes of Google,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action will take place. [20727/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (16 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the National Economic and Social Council will take place. [21883/17]

Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann: Sitting in Joint Committee - Exchange of views with Mr. Michel Barnier, Chief Negotiator of the Taskforce for the Preparation and Conduct of Negotiations with the United Kingdom (11 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Nous vous souhaitons bonne chance dans votre travail. Je suis avec les Verts. I am with the all-island Green Party, proud, united, part of the European Green Party and best of mates with our Green Party colleagues in Scotland, England and Wales. We are very glad that in the first phase of these talks, Mr. Barnier has agreed that one of the three conditions we have to work on is the border...

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am positive but I reiterate the key point that there is no point doing this consultation if it is not done at the same time that the Minister indicates the budget is there to deliver it. As I said, the problem lies at the heart of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, which historically, for many years, have had a flawed...

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate congestion in Dublin within the next four years, in view of the estimated annual cost of €350 million due to delays in traffic. [22109/17]

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: My question is set in the context of the latest report, according to which the €350 million cost of traffic blockages in Dublin will increase to €2 billion unless we do something about the issue. I am keen to hear about the Minister's measures to reduce congestion. Everyone can see that, with the economy growing quickly, Dublin's traffic is like the Richter scale - when...

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That initiative will be welcome. I agree that the main response to our traffic problem must be buses and cycling and pedestrian facilities in the first instance. We have been talking about it for 20 years and I am slightly nervous that if we are just saying we are going into a consultation process, it is not real. For this to be real, there has to be a budget allocation in 2018. This has...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Of the measures the Minister mentioned and that I specifically cited are some of the projects which could be built next year. They could be included in the 2018 budget. They include projects such as a Dodder greenway, a Liffey cycle route or a Clontarf-to-the-city-centre cycle route. All those projects, which have been designed and planned for years, have no budget. If the Minister wishes...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the expected emissions from the transport sector in 2020 and 2030; and the reason the national mitigation plan has a number of gaps relating to reductions in emissions from the transport sector. [22362/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am asking the Minister about his ambition in terms of the transport contribution to reduce climate change emissions. Everyone else is saying that they are going to expand. The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport was absent without leave at the recent formation of the national climate mitigation plan. We can see it in the plan. Large sectors are supposedly going to have plans to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The draft plan was published-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to hearing the details.