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Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Like all speakers here today, I feel a real sense of pride at the way we have celebrated Easter 1916 this year and I commend the Minister and everyone involved because it was a job well done. It brought back a sense of national pride and celebration of what happened 100 years ago, that moment, that inspiration, that violent spark for the establishment of our freedom as a republic. I would...

Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: St. Valentine's Day is not a public holiday. I accept St. Valentine's Day has a connection to this city. Is St. Valentine's heart not in the Carmelite church on Whitefriar Street? However, St. Brigid is the core patron saint to our country. It is not only a Catholic or Christian tradition, although Brigid is someone who is revered, not only in Ireland but in Wales, I understand, in the...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: First Stage (3 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: First Stage (3 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the election of a Mayor for the Local Government areas of Dublin City and the counties of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin; to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as the Regional Authority of Dublin, or in the Irish language, Údarás Réigiúnach Bhaile...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (3 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to consent to provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ahead of upcoming EU council meetings and the EU-Canada Summit. [30968/16]

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party also supports the contents of that motion in looking for the House to accept, among other things, 200 unaccompanied minors from the Calais camp as a signal of our intent. I hope that the Minister, who, as someone said previously, I do not think are without compassion or concern for this issue, will be able to agree and see that motion put into action next week. There have...

Other Questions: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The political waiting for this dates back to 2000. I was a member of the Dublin transport advisory committee at the time. A presentation was made which stated that the first priority in Dublin had to be the public transport projects and that the metro north and the DART interconnector had to be built before the M50 was widened, as otherwise there would just be sprawl around the road. A...

Other Questions: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: We could start the application for the rail order. We have been working on this project for 17 years. More planning has been done on this than on the Apollo mission. Instead there is lots of "could have", "if", "but" and "maybe". In view of that, the investment community is correctly making the call that this is a country that does not believe in public transport and that this is a...

Other Questions: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the Dublin metro and the DART east-west interconnector. [32780/16]

Other Questions: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: As much as I understand the traffic problems the Minister and Deputy were just speaking about in the town of Maigh Chromtha, I draw the Minister's attention to the fact that the capital city, Dublin, is about to gridlock. We are facing a real transport crisis. The M50 cannot be further extended. All the roads that lead to Dublin will hit that motorway and the city will not work. We suffer...

Other Questions: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Why does the Minister say the National Transport Authority has responsibility? This is a political issue. The former Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, made one of the worst mistakes in his career, which should rule him out as a potential Taoiseach, when he shelved a project that was ready to go, had financing available and was in the four-year plan. We knew...

Other Questions: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It was in the four-year plan. The money was there and it was ready to go.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Pollution (2 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to regulate to allow local authorities to restrict the movement of high emission vehicles in urban centres to reduce air pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32781/16]

Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: This is an historic day. It is an historic day for the environmental movement because it is a real victory. I thank Deputy Tony McLoughlin for helping to make it happen and everyone else here who spoke in support of what will be a very radical, important change that will affect our country now and into the future. It is a victory for the local people in Leitrim in particular. I do not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Regulations (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I do not disagree with the Minister, but I call to his mind the bigger picture, to which I referred at the very start, that we have seen something like a 60% reduction in wildlife. At some point, the bigger picture, the ecological truth, has to come in. If we keep killing nature, it will come back and bite us.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Regulations (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the Government opposed a proposed ban on the use of pesticides in ecological focus areas which was discussed at the recent European Council Agriculture Ministers' meeting. [32510/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Regulations (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On a day when the Zoological Society in London has estimated that we have lost 58% of global wildlife since 1970, why did the Minister oppose the Commission proposal at the recent European Council meeting for the introduction on restrictions on the use of herbicides and pesticides within ecological focus areas on large arable farms? Surely that runs completely contrary to our whole...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Regulations (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: As well as being concerned about the standardisation with regard to bean crops, we should also show concern about the loss of bird life, the loss of invertebrates and the loss of insect life in the State which has been happening continually over a long period of time. We should be concerned that we have one of the lowest levels of organic agriculture despite it being a very lucrative and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Regulations (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It is not just about the whole agricultural and food system, it is also about the consumer. I believe that the Irish consumer will start to say "Please, Minister can we have our peas without pesticide on top?", even if it is a fodder crop. My point is that we need to actually start preserving areas of Irish countryside and even if this is about 300 farms they are large farms that are very...

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The signing of the Paris climate agreement was an historic and momentous occasion. The fact that it is being ratified at speeds never seen before with any international agreement is a signal of how significant, important and urgent the task before us is. I was in Paris during the talks and I remember the day before the final agreement was reached I asked one of our officials what she...