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

Eamon Ryan: 101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if adequate temporary accommodation has been sourced to facilitate the remainder of the 4,000 refugee target before September 2017. [5491/17]

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

Eamon Ryan: 103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when and the way in which post-September 2017 targets will be set at an Irish level and at the European level with regard to the refugee protection programme. [5527/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Elections (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to initiate a new boundary commission for local election wards; the proposed terms of reference; if it will consider increasing or decreasing the total number of seats in each local authority; if it will consider reducing the geographic size of wards; if it will consider reducing the number of seats...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Banking Sector (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 365. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received a submission from an organisation (details supplied) requesting that her Department establish a working group to investigate the establishment of a local public banking network here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 390. To ask the Minister for Health further to the Topical Issue debate of 7 December 2016, if he will provide the timeline mentioned in the debate. [5526/17]

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

Eamon Ryan: 562. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the draft bioenergy plan and the strategic environmental assessment of the plan will be put to public consultation; and the reason for the delay in this process. [5464/17]

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

Eamon Ryan: 563. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether, in view of the volume of complaints to ComReg regarding the activities of PRS providers, the regulatory framework governing telephone companies debiting the accounts of consumers for services of such third-party PRS providers is adequate; his further views on whether there should not be an opt-out...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Minister that the system is deeply flawed and has been so for years. I have seen aquaculture licensing which beggars belief in terms of what was allowed to happen. As the Minister said, the process is not working for anyone. This community is not opposed to the development of oyster farming in the area, rather it is opposed to the scale of the proposed development without...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We are talking about a 99 acre site.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the planned increase in size and number of oyster farms in County Donegal; if an environmental impact assessment has been carried out; the local consultation that has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5066/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Speaking at the launch of the national planning framework, the Taoiseach stated that planning would be all about community and bringing the community with us. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, promised a new marine strategy. I understand the Minister recently approved applications for a large number of new aquaculture licences in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Aquaculture Licence Applications (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I cannot believe the Minister did not ask for an environmental impact statement on this occasion. In my constituency, a pedestrian zone proposed for College Green required an environmental impact statement. The site affected in Gweedore Bay, one of 45 locations where it was decided an environmental impact statement was not necessary, covers 99 acres and is the most sensitive and beautiful...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (2 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the action he will take to mitigate harm caused by supertrawlers on fishing communities in view of a recent documentary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5067/17]

Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to share time with Deputy Seamus Healy. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the critical issue of how we develop our transport system and how we improve our infrastructure, particularly in rural Ireland. I am conscious that this debate follows on from our debate on Bus Éireann and how we invest in it. The reality for any Minister in Government is that hard choices have...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I was glad to be able to look in on some of the PAC hearings held on the Project Eagle sale. I attended the gallery on occasion as I am not a member of the PAC. My sense in listening to the questioning of the chairman, Mr. Frank Daly, in particular tallied with my wider sense that the key issue in the sale is that to a certain extent people do not trust the connection between the business...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am pleased to follow Deputy Seamus Healy because he represents Clonmel which, in public transport terms, is a hugely historic and important town. Bianconi had the laborious job of carrying picture frames around rural Ireland to sell and he saw rich people flying by in their coaches and resoled to set up one that would carry everyone. He did that and his first route was from Clonmel to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is a strange situation because there is consensus. In the Second Stage debate, we reached an important decision so it is strange that we are stepping back a bit. However, it is not a permanent step back. In fact, we have respect for this process and for the submissions that various people with an interest in this matter have been asked to present and the work they have done on them. Two...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I add my voice to the calls for a debate on the ban introduced by executive order of the US Government. I was taken by what the Taoiseach said to the effect that we could look for a common agreed motion across the House, expressing our concern about the nature of that order. If there are ways in which the entire House could come together and agree such a motion it would give a very strong...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is important to stand with and support those women, particularly those who have not got anyex gratiapayments. For them this problem continues. We have not given what we should have given, an upfront apology, a recognition that what went on was wrong and recompense for the huge damage, loss and pain that occurred over their lives. I listened to the Minister for Education and Skills,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Jan 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to implement sustainability clauses within the public procurement process in order to incentivise companies engaged in public contracts to act in as sustainable and environmentally friendly manner as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3625/17]