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Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On behalf of the Green Party I extend our sympathies to the family of Captain Duffy on their tragic loss and commend him on his heroism in the work that he and the other members of the Coast Guard have done. It was interesting watching the Garda Commissioner in the Oireachtas committee this morning, and I have a number of questions for the Minister on the Government's position. This mess...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: British-Irish Co-operation (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has raised issues or concerns regarding Irish sovereignty in the context of foreign agents, with particular reference to British operatives involved in the incidents which have led to the Pitchford inquiry in the UK, with her counterpart; if so, the details of that discussion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8757/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (30 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 66. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason 47.1% or €3,933,413 of the €8,244,939 allocated to Ireland from the European fund for the integration of third-country nationals in each of the years 2007 to 2015 was returned to the EU; and the reason for not accepting integration funding in view of her Department's contributions to the EU migrant and refugee fund....

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It seems that for a long time, the key question is what might be the appropriate discount rate to apply to inform pricing in terms of assets in Northern Ireland. To a certain extent, discount rates in respect of the cost or price of capital assets in any jurisdiction depends on intangible issues that are hard to put an exact figure on. The dysfunctional political system in Northern Ireland...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Well it would in my case, Deputy McDonald. It would help tremendously because we would have the facts in an open and transparent way. I still put the case for that amendment to the NAMA legislation as one of the ways of uncovering what exactly we got on all the different deals.

Northern Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On behalf of my party, I congratulate our two MLAs, Stephen Agnew and Clare Bailey, on their election to a much reduced Assembly. Holding two seats was a hugely significant and important victory for the Green Party on this island and it sends a message of hope that there is a non-sectarian view of the future which is about Ireland going green and all the benefits that would bring for...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There is an ongoing debate between Lorcan Sirr, a lecturer in housing, and the Department on the number of houses completed last year. The official figure is 15,000 based on ESB connections, but he argues that if one looks at building control management system completions, one gets perhaps half that number. Can the CIF give us an accurate figure? How many housing units were completed in 2016?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Where is the demand for housing? If I read the NPF correctly, it is all about going back into the centre and strengthening our towns, villages and city centres. It is about stopping the sprawl and going back to the centre. Does the CIF see that? Where are the houses that are being completed being built and what is the CIF's submission to the NPF in that regard? Will construction be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is it in city centres? Everyone abandoned Cork and evacuated to Douglas, Carrigaline and Ballincollig. The population in the city centre collapsed. The same happened in Dublin. In most of the old suburbs, population declined. Is development in Cork and Dublin going back into the real city centres or is it still out around ring roads on the outskirts?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is that because of the cost of land?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: People have said that in London and elsewhere there are brilliant new building technologies and prefabrication solutions that can be brought on site very quickly. They say that the Irish construction industry is old-fashioned and has not advanced with the times. Are there any examples of cutting-edge and new technologies being put in place in house building?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I was particularly interested in house building.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I attended the annual conference of chartered surveyors and all of the talk there was about build to rent. It was interesting to hear the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, suggesting yesterday that there is a need to move to a cost-rental housing model of social housing. I agree. Is there any example from the CIF's perspective of a real pick up in the build to rent or cost rental...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: When the witnesses talk about PPPs for the next three or four years, I presume we are talking about roads. Out of the €220 million, how much was in roads funding?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is all roads.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Nothing changes. We are just doing the same thing we have done for 30 years - sprawl, roads, sprawl, roads, sprawl, sprawl, sprawl.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Some believe in public transport.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full-time employee with a third level college who is due to reach the age of 65 years in March 2017 and therefore faces mandatory retirement in September 2017 will be able to agree an extension of their employment contract for an additional period; and the flexibility which exists for the extension of such public sector employment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the report of the committee to review the reports of the Cork local government committee; and when he expects to know of its recommendations. [14851/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (28 Mar 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expert advice he has sought and received in regard to the likely impact of aviation growth internationally on the achievement of the Paris Agreement temperature goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14848/17]