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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 28 of Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 1.The Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 is amended in section 28:(a) in subsection (1) by the substitution of “that postal service” for "a universal postal service" where it secondly occurs, (b)...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to reply to the Minister of State to tease out the point. He is right with regard to the original provisions of the Act on providing an exclusive universal postal service. In a sense, the thinking behind it was that competition would develop and people would have choices. In truth when looking at the business there is effectively no real competition in the widespread range of postal...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will return to the amendment on Report Stage. I will not press it now.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad the Minister of State reverted to this matter, as we did not have time to discuss it. Deputy Lawless may have a similar point to the one that I am about to make. Our purpose and wordings are similar. We have been speaking to similar people with an interest in the area. The point about not removing completely the capability of ComReg to have oversight is a valid one. In some...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: To be pressed on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 3, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:" "(bc) to undertake a review of terminal dues with particular regard to the requirements of section 29(1) of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 and to report to the Minister within 6 months of the commencement of this Act. Further such reviews shall be undertaken at least every two years,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: This is an area where we believe it is possible for An Post to recover significant revenue it is losing on current arrangements. This review might be very beneficial for the company in terms of raising revenue.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is very useful and will help us to develop our argument on Report Stage. If the Minister could inform us in advance of Report Stage about ComReg's views on this matter, it would help the Report Stage debate.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will withdraw it until Report Stage.

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for awarding the ObSERVE programme; the way in which its aim of surveying cetaceans such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises and sea birds offshore aligns with the programme's aim of supporting the sustainable development of the oil and gas industry; and the basis on which this programme was awarded a...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Is it the Government's intention to save the whale in the North Atlantic or to save the oil and gas industry? The Department has commissioned the ObSERVE programme with significant funding of €2.7 million to monitor the presence of whales, dolphins and sea birds in the area. Is that done with the intention of excluding areas from exploration or from seismic testing, which is known to...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I take it from the Minister of State's answer that this measure is about developing the oil and gas exploration industry. There is a certain irony for those interested in the whole protection of nature that the very industry causing such damage, changing the North Atlantic, altering the feeding patterns and causing immediate harm to these creatures due to the exploration work, is now being...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am concerned for several reasons. First of all we must leave four fifths of the fossil fuels underground. I am concerned that the only investments being made by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment are in fossil fuel scholarships rather than clean energy scholarships and that it is measuring nature so that those industries can go out and help to destroy nature....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There must be an election on somewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I should declare an interest in that my wife is a regular columnist in the Evening Herald, one of the INM main publications. I should say that. There is a side issue in that I have never had the sense that she has ever been under editorial control. It would not be easy to manage editorial control over the person in question, but it shows some of the good qualities and tradition of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: When was that approach made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I may have to leave the meeting shortly as I have tabled a question to the Taoiseach, which is due to be taken in the Dáil. Mr. Pitt said that INM has no interest in purchasing radio stations. Why did it look at purchasing Newstalk? What was the strategic imperative for purchasing Newstalk if now, as he says, it is not a strategic imperative?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Acquisition of Celtic Media by Independent News & Media plc: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What about my question?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason his Department is offering MSc scholarship opportunities in petroleum-related courses in view of the fact his Department's statement of strategy declares one of its objectives is to pursue and achieve transition to a low carbon, climate resilient and environmentally sustainable economy, underpinned by a secure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is still planning to reach the target of 4,000 refugees taken under the Irish refugee protection programme by September 2017. [5490/17]