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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (2 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 1393. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that have been taken by his Department or agencies under its aegis to provide support to carrying out new experiments in road design, traffic management and use of space in urban areas, in pursuance of policy 2.11 of the National Cycle Policy Framework; and the locations at which such experimental approaches have been...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (2 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 1394. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schools for which audits of routes from residential areas have been carried out in pursuance of policy 4.1 of the National Cycle Policy Framework. [20857/17]

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I want to return to a point I think I have made to the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, in the past. It is worth repeating that I think our interests in this European Council and in the upcoming talks around Brexit are that we play a constructive role in trying to get agreements on some of the standards and working arrangements that are not necessarily the big headline issues around...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. We, as politicians, are better placed to decide what the policy is and what the broad legal approach we should take is. It is the lawyers who interpret it. If it is not constitutional, the lawyers come back and tell us that but we should not abdicate our responsibilities to the legal system just because we have got ourselves into a political knot. We need to untie it. We need to win...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party and green movement in general are based on one simple, clear idea, namely, that if we can be efficient in our use of natural resources, we will be successful, not just successful in being sustainable in a world of scarce resources but also secure because we are facing an insecure world. The climate will change. Some areas in this country face flooding and huge water...

Other Questions: Northern Ireland (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to Secretary of State Brokenshire since Mr. Brokenshire’s announcement that he would consider a return to direct rule if talks to restore power sharing in Northern Ireland fail. [17915/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister for accepting amendment No. 57. It is a pity the other amendments have been ruled out of order. I would like to see the details of that. The intent behind the amendments, to which I will return in a series of later amendments, is to strengthen the tension on core environmental objectives, particularly climate change and biodiversity but also other elements. A number...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: If I can, I will attempt to renegotiate amendments in that regard.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We also believe this Bill is a badly needed and welcome development in our planning architecture. There is a subtle line between having too much power going out of a Department, losing in-house capability, and having too much power remain there. In this instance it is right to transfer day-to-day regulation of the planning system away from the Department and the Minister. The overall...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister made the hypothetical case that there might be a Minister with responsibility for the environment who is rather aggressive or bullheaded - I think pigheaded is the word the Minister used. I cannot think of any like that in recent history. Looking back at our recent Ministers with responsibility for the environment, they are shy and retiring-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Tipperary versus Kilkenny hurling comes to mind, when they are going full tilt at each other. I have a couple of broad points to make. We have been quite good at regulation. It has not all worked. It came from Europe as a structure to force the Irish public administration system into use of regulators. Our former communications regulator is now the Permanent Secretary in the Department...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 14:In page 9, line 24, after “assemblies” to insert “in respect of”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 16:In page 10, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(b) the national transition objective established in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015,”. I will speak to my amendment No. 16 and I intend to press it. To a certain extent, what this amendment proposes involves a continuation of the previous debate on the overarching...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I accept the point about the national biodiversity action plan or the all-Ireland pollinator plan because, God almighty, our legislation is complex. Things are amended and plans changed. I appreciate Deputy Eolin Ó Broin being supportive on the likes of the Water Framework Directive and the floods directive. While it is possibly covered by the current wording, we all know that one of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will not press it with a view to discussing it with the Minister and his officials before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to keep it live, subject to-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am fine with that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 30:In page 24, to delete line 6 and substitute “as soon as practicable following submission to the members of the authority.”. The amendment relates to the reports on public consultations which chief executives of local authorities will be required to make. We argue that such reports should be made public and published before the councillors make any...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 39:In page 32, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(b) consistency with the national transition objective established in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015;". I will withdraw the amendment as I will discuss with the Minister's officials how we might deal with it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 50:In page 38, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following:“(c) is failing to achieve a desirable level of compliance with planning law in its area through the exercise of its enforcement functions in Part VIII,”. To a certain extent this relates back to what I was discussing earlier regarding the different performances of local authorities in the...