Results 23,581-23,600 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I have a concern that we are employing 800 new gardaí when we do not even know what the gardaí were doing. The statistics on what they were doing showed twice the amount of activity in one not insignificant area. It is a slight concern in terms of assessing that we need 800 gardaí when we do not know what the gardaí are doing. In terms of the digital identifier,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: That is fair enough. I will come back to it. It is a separate issue but it is relevant, as I said, because what has been exposed in the breath testing story is that it took three years to collect information. When we did, we found the level of activity was half what it really was. That has exposed a real problem within the Garda. With regard to the senior positions, the Commissioner...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I might come back on a future date to the national planning framework and investment in roads. I could not disagree more with Deputy Calleary on what our investment priorities might be. It would take too long to address it now. I have two questions for the Department of Finance. The information I seek may be publicly available but I would just like to be given a sense of it. I found...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: What are the questions Mr. Moran is thinking of answering this year?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Would Mr. Moran welcome suggested questions for the Tax Strategy Group? We might submit them in the coming weeks. My final question is on the judgment on the Apple tax case. I presume the Department of Finance acts as the lead agency within the State on that. Could I be given an update on the timelines for a judgment from the European Court of Justice and how the hearings are going?
- Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: At the outset, I wish to mark how sad an occasion the triggering of Article 50 by the UK Government was. In a sense, in that moment it became clear that the UK intended to leave and that our entire union was being undermined. It was a bad day for everyone in Europe as it means a diminished Europe and a diminished relationship between us and our nearest neighbour, with whom we have built up...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to ensure banks operating here are paying the correct effective tax rate in view of a recent report (details supplied) that shows that banks here pay an effective tax rate of 6% with some paying only 2%. [16465/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Freedom of Information Remit (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if business improvement districts established under the Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006 will be brought in under the Freedom of Information Acts in the interest of openness, accountability and transparency. [16577/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Nuclear Plants (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 622. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the correspondence he has received from the United Kingdom on the proposed nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C; and the response he has made. [16481/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Nuclear Plants (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 623. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the correspondence he has received from the United Kingdom on the proposed nuclear power plant at Wylfa; and the response he has made. [16482/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 650. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current or recent levels of greenhouse gas emissions, expressed in Mt CO2e, in the greater Dublin area which were used as the baseline emissions in the Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2016 to 2035. [16478/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 651. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the levels of greenhouse gas emissions, expressed in Mt CO2e, in the greater Dublin area which are predicted to occur consequent on the implementation of the Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2016 to 2035. [16479/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Regulations (4 Apr 2017)
Eamon Ryan: 652. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to release for public consultation the draft statutory instrument which will transpose EU Regulation 598/2014. [16480/17]
- Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)
Eamon Ryan: We have had real success in the past 25 years with a whole range of different measures we needed to introduce. The reason we need to invest in Dublin particularly-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)
Eamon Ryan: If I can just finish, the reason we need to invest in the cycling space in Dublin is not just for the safety issue but also to make the city work. Dublin is facing gridlock. I am on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to which various agencies and organisations come every week calling for more motorways to be built. There is no one championing investment in cycling expect for the likes of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)
Eamon Ryan: There are calls for motorways-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)
Eamon Ryan: The Minister has come to the nub of it. We are spending €36 million on trying to create safe cycling spaces. We absolutely need to do this in Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Dublin. The expenditure is out of a total budget of €1.8 billion, however. Therefore, 0.02% of our overall budget is being spent on cycling. I am sorry but we need to be spending something like 10% of our...
- Topical Issue Debate: Cycling Policy (30 Mar 2017)
Eamon Ryan: Approximately 25 years ago, Mike Curtis died on Merrion Square in Dublin. He was on his bike, was flattened and killed. A lot of us started campaigning then to try to make Dublin a cycling city. It is deeply shocking for anyone with a keen interest in cycling to look at what has happened here in the last few months. On 12 February, Ms Tonya McEvoy, a member of the Orwell Wheelers cycling...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)
Eamon Ryan: I agree that we need to look at the cultural background in An Garda Síochána that allowed this to take place. We should also look at the bigger, wider structural issues in terms of what An Garda Síochána is and should be doing. However, we also have a structural problem in our Government and public administration system. When senior members of An Garda...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)
Eamon Ryan: That is their argument.