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Other Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which her Department is working with the Departments of Justice and Equality, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Education and Skills and Health to ensure that concerted adequate provision is made for refugee minors in all aspects of State responsibility on entry into Ireland, in view of the complexity of the integration process; and...

Other Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I do not know if the Minister read theSunday Timesmagazine, because she had a busy day yesterday. However, Christina Lamb had an article in that paper about unaccompanied migrant children. Some 25,800 unaccompanied minors arrived in Italy last year, half of whom have now gone missing. Some 91% of the children on those boats coming across the Mediterranean do not have their parents with...

Other Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister for that reply. I have some specific follow-on questions but if she cannot answer them directly perhaps her Department could write to me. I am keen to know whether children will be entitled to family reunification rights after they have been relocated to Ireland. If so, will this extend to their parents, siblings and grandparents? In many cases, these children only...

Other Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am sorry. There were a few questions.

Other Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a slightly wider front, I understand that those unaccompanied minors from Calais are, in a sense, going to be treated in the same way as the 160,000 refugees from Italy or Greece the European Union has agreed we would take as programme refugees. In that regard, however, I understand that only 8,000 of those refugees have been relocated, and there are only 171 unaccompanied minors in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. Vice President Šefovi was in Dublin two years ago setting out the approach the Commission would take. In the 2020 package, all the political agreements were done in advance before the poor Ministers of Finance knew what was going on. They learned of it in a state of shock. We had these targets and so on. This time, because there is less...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will just come in on that. Did Mr. Confrey say the Commission thinks that between now and 2020, which is in three years, we will go from 9% to 15%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will that €100 million fine kick in straight away in 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is the witness saying people from our Department have yet to meet personnel from the relevant UK Department and speak about the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Senator raised a very interesting point on the detail. Does this effectively mean peat-fired power stations would not meet sustainability criteria? Mr. Confrey indicated it applies to new biomass plants but the wording seems to indicate that any support for biomass-fuelled power generation that would not meet sustainability criteria - I cannot see any of our peat-fired plants passing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: This information is very useful. I take it we have not yet got money from the EIB or Junckers investment fund. Have we drawn down money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is a long time ago. Has there been anything since?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The EIB last year lent €3.5 billion to the UK. It has lent €30 billion to the UK in the past five years, I think, or seven years - I cannot recall exactly - but it will not be able to do so next year. It is crying out for people to lend money to. The UK is doing very well. We, on the other hand, are one of only four countries which will not meet our renewable energy targets....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The consultation for that started in 2015, I understood.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have one very last short question. Our energy efficiency target is not binding. It is 20% by 2020. What is our progress in this regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Regarding Mr. Brady's last point, the UK has apparently just signed a memorandum of understanding on the North Seas countries' offshore grid initiative, which the Dutch Government introduced last June. The fact that it did it in November is not insignificant. It will not sell electricity to Singapore, India or effect any of their mad-capped notions about trading globally. It will have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to make a last point, if I may.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Effect of proposed withdrawal of the UK from the EU on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion. (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The transmission infrastructure should be publicly owned. We want connectors, but I am nervous around that going down a private route. We saw what happened in the midlands project where we lost our public support. I think that the Commission and others believe that major transmission infrastructure such as that should be publicly owned as it gives us control and flexibility. It can be...

Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I do not think anyone I met at the Business Committee meeting at 1.30 p.m. who thought that we were actually going to follow the Order of Business I had the great pleasure of reading out at length. We agreed that we would have to come back at 4 p.m., reorder the business and start the process again. We should be seeking to prioritise statements from Ministers who, as best they can, should...

Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: This refers to business agreed last Thursday. The Business Committee will convene again at 4 p.m. today. Today’s business shall be No. 9, motion re Parliamentary Questions rota change, without debate; No. 10, motion re report of services by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2015, referral to committee, without debate; No. 16, National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017 -...