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Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On behalf of the Green Party, I am happy to support the Labour Party motion. It was interesting to read the Minister's speech. I will make two arguments in terms of postponing the one quarter sale of AIB in the proposed IPO. In his speech, the Minister stated that the establishment of a rainy-day fund would be an important example of measures which will help to maintain competitiveness and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid Development Strategy 2017 and Proposed Celtic Interconnector: EirGrid (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Mr. Slye for his presentation. I have some brief questions and will unfortunately have to leave the meeting shortly. There have been some significant developments in the area of offshore wind in recent weeks, years and months. Denmark, Holland and Germany are starting to see offshore wind coming in at five cent per kW hour, which is a fraction of what it was even three or four...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Mitigation Plan (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: By 2030, the balance of peat will have been burned and we will have lost the carbon store. Where is the Minister's economic analysis? Am I to take from his response that the economic analysis is being provided by the RPS Group or, as mentioned in the middle of his response, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? Let us have this debate. I will bring out Lord Nicholas Stern and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Mitigation Plan (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Minister, but the cost benefit analyses within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are out of date and at fault. We need a whole-of-Government approach, but if the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport does not seem to have the slightest interest and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine wants to be counted out, we have a problem. If so, why is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Mitigation Plan (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the modelling which underpins the national mitigation plan; the key assumptions regarding the use of biomass in power generation; and his views on the future of carbon capture and storage. [21887/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Mitigation Plan (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister recently described our climate ambition as economically reckless. I will throw his criticism back at him by asking where his economic analysis is. It is clear that we have no mitigation plan with which anyone agrees. The head of the climate advisory committee stated the plan lacked substance, analysis and detail, while the head of the Environmental Protection Agency described...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will add to the Chairman's comments in commending Deputy Tony McLoughlin for being the first person in the history of the State, as a non-member of a committee, to have a Bill reach Committee Stage. It is a real relief as approximately 26 Bills have proceeded through Second Stage but none has reached Committee Stage. It is important that we be the first, but that it has taken us five...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Does the provision include gas? In everyday parlance, one would take petroleum to mean petroleum oil. My one concern about the definition of petroleum is that it does not include gas as a fuel to be extracted.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: As a petroleum?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Smith asked a valid question on CETA. We should start thinking about counter suing Canada for the destruction of our planetary atmosphere through its use of fracking, which is truly scandalous. It is a proud day when Ireland stands up and declares we will not do the same. We should sue Canada for its activities.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for being outside for a few minutes. I was asking the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment a related question on the lack of cost-benefit analysis from the republic's system of climate projects, but it related to infrastructure also. I start by disagreeing, with every respect, with Deputy Barrett. The IMF had nothing to do with us not building the metro....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: If I could just make the point, it was a critical project we had spent ten to 12 years planning and preparing. We would have got it for half nothing in the middle of the recession and it would be opening now. It was the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that killed the project through a supplicant and unfortunate Minister with responsibility for transport, who was one of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I agree fully that we should not do it piecemeal. As will happen now, we should not be retrofitting the pedestrian and cycling facilities 18 months after we finish the Luas tracks. The Luas project is long enough in the making to have allowed us to do the two at the same time. The same problem exists with the Liffey cycle route which we should be introducing at the same time the Luas...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There is no funding for that in the capital budget, which is our responsibility. It is our job to get the funding for that. We should have €100 million for those projects next year. They have to go in next year because if they do not, we will get none of the joined-up thinking and will have to wait another two or three years with the Luas tracks in place but none of the ancillary...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Management Plan (9 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 347. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the rewetting of midland bogs. [21886/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (4 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We have to look to the long term. The Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, has opposed my view of economics in his climate paper. I fundamentally challenge his economics and one of the ways in which I would challenge it is that we are not thinking long term. If we go the direction the Minister of State is suggesting, where this is just a minor research project and a couple of sites will do and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (4 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered continuous cover as an alternative, in view of the afforestation his Department has planned; and if he has carried out a review of the potential for higher value output derived from continuous cover. [21383/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (4 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We are at a point of real change in the forestry industry. There was a massive increase in afforestation to meet our climate change targets. We need to learn from what has happened in the past 50 years and move to what I believe is a form of forestry with a higher value, with a higher value product, with far more jobs and where we protect biodiversity and the long-term quality of soil. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (4 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad that our timing is good in advance of the event to be held in Stradbally tomorrow. I wish the Minister of State the best of luck in that regard. What I hear is recognition of the fact that continuous cover forestry has a real role to play but in marginal conservative research on native forestry; however, not necessarily on the scale in respect of which I believe there is...