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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Subject to the specific questions we have asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Getting David McRedmond as chief executive of An Post to increase TV licences is a fantastic example of poacher turned gamekeeper. That will not be easy. It has to be legislated for. It is hard to square the circle of keeping it the old way but the old way ain't working. I presume there is another short-term measure we must consider, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Where did that figure come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Can Ms Cronin answer my question about the must-pay versus must-carry rule on cable networks for public service broadcasting? Has that been considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: That would give a certain revenue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Is there analysis available of what we are looking at? I do not refer to who is watching RTE or TV3 and so on. I am sick and tired of realclearpolitics.comand I cannot wait to see the back of it. Hopefully, that will happen after tomorrow. I spend my time on that website or on The Guardianwebsite. Is there a baseline analysis available of where we get our news and what we are looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It would be great if the witness could share it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Therefore, it is five and five.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I do not recognise the OECD or the European Commission as neutral observers. They are biased, in the sense that they are obsessed with the whole notion of economic growth and, in the case of countries which have a falling population, with trying to get as many people into the workforce as possible. They are pump priming the dual income trap, as they did in the US. In response to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am a defender of the book and its analysis because I can see what it describes happening before my eyes in this country. Parents are experiencing rising mortgage, health insurance and transport costs because of the American economic model we are adopting. I fully agree with the Minister that we have to address the rising cost of child care, in particular for those on lower incomes....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I fully support the ECCE scheme and am very glad it is in place. That does not mean that we take an approach which all the experts says is not the right approach, namely 40 hours care. The Nordic model was mentioned by the Minister. There are brilliant examples from those countries.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way she will protect against the dual income trap, as articulated by a person (details supplied), the result of which is a greater level of support being provided for one parenting choice over another; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33818/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Why are we setting what Senator Elizabeth Warren has described as a dual income trap? In America, the experience was that incomes doubled because everybody started working, but disposable income fell due to a bidding war for property and the costs of health care, transport, tax and child care went up. Couples were left worse off. They were working all the time but were poorer and exposed....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I add my voice to those of the other speakers who have said to the Sinn Féin leadership that it should consider doing the unthinkable. This is not an ordinary time. Nothing would reflect this fact better than their presence at Westminster to defend the Good Friday Agreement. Deputy Gerry Adams is absolutely right - we all have an obligation to do this. What a message would be sent if...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with the leaders of the UUP, SDLP and Sinn Féin that took place on 3 November 2016 in Stormont; and the understandings that were reached regarding the legal and constitutional developments in regard to the invocation of Article 50 during the Brexit process. [33825/16]

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: We have a real problem with Thursday's business as we face the prospect on Wednesday that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are going to cut out the voices of smaller parties in the Dáil. I could not let Thursday's business go through without recognising that. Does the Taoiseach support the proposal that smaller parties would not be able to share time if they are in a common group and the...

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: -----if the motion on Wednesday is passed?

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: There is a danger that on Thursday we will not have the same speaking rights that we have today, if the Government and Fianna Fáil plans, working together, are agreed.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I wanted to flag my concerns. I will come back on Thursday if there is that eventuality.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 508. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the consultation on the new affordable child care scheme will include consideration of supports for alternative child care choices, including in respect of those parents raising children at home. [33831/16]