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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Sub-committee on Infrastructure, Environment and Climate Action last met; and when the next meeting is to take place. [31825/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Taoiseach for accepting a delegation of the environmental movement yesterday - Trócaire, Environmental Pillar, the Jesuits, Friends of the Earth and the Climate Gathering - and allowing it to make a presentation last night on the national dialogue on climate change. I hope I am not speaking out of class here, but the Taoiseach's comments in that meeting in which he...

Other Questions: Consular Services Representations (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the update. Is it possible for the Minister to give any further indication as to the discussions with his counterpart, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, in New York in September? I realise that a decree No. 140 applications is one of the few ways in which the political system might be able to have an influence in this area. Did the Minister have any sense from talking to the...

Other Questions: Consular Services Representations (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister. I understand that it may be possible for a visit from the Oireachtas to take place in Egypt to consider a wide range of relations between Egypt and Ireland as well as to visit Ibrahim. I would be keen to hear whether the Minister thinks that might be a useful part of the diplomatic process in which he is engaged. In general, how is this case affecting diplomatic...

Other Questions: Consular Services Representations (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action his Department is taking to secure the release of a person (details supplied). [31811/16]

Other Questions: Consular Services Representations (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The Ceann Comhairle will be aware of the motions that were brought before the Dáil and Seanad calling for the release of Ibrahim Halawa. I am particularly interested in hearing an update from the Minister on what the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is doing to help secure his release, given Mr. Halawa is approaching his 21st birthday, having been imprisoned without trial for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for leaving the meeting. I had to ask a question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade; it did not indicate a lack of interest in this subject. I read the presentations and saw the briefs and found it all very interesting. I am not satisfied with the response from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to Deputy Stanley's question. I am surprised at it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. How did we lobby on that or was there lobbying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Surely, we are counting it in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, as mentioned earlier. Given the accounting mechanism is there, we have to do it anyway. My understanding is that many of the reduction targets could come from re-wetting. My understanding of the science is that how a restoration of a habitat like that stores carbon is far more certain than the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: My fear is we will have cut away every square inch of bog by the time we come to that conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Is it likely there will be an increase in ambition as part of the Paris Agreement?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the details and outcomes of his discussion with Mr. Michel Barnier following their recent meeting. [30640/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the previous speaker as such a strategy would be misguided if that is what the Government is pursuing. On the wider strategy, I have a concern that the Government is looking for a side-deal, as it were, between Ireland and the United Kingdom in any talks on invoking Article 50 which we might then present to the 26 remaining countries for them to treat us as a special case....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the trade deals that have been signed with the Egyptian Government in the past five years; and the primary export industries are from Ireland to Egypt. [31812/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Tribunals of Inquiry Data (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 72. To ask the Taoiseach the policy for the archiving of materials from the Moriarty tribunal; and the locations in which they are currently stored and will be stored in future. [31309/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the reason visa processing has been outsourced to a company (details supplied) in the following eight countries: China, Peru, Nigeria, India, Ghana, Pakistan, Turkey and Hong Kong; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32134/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to explain the reason there is a discrepancy in the addresses stated on some embassy websites and visa summary sheets in respect of where applicants send their supporting documentation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32135/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements that exist regarding the collection of tax from internet purchases made here from the UK; where the tax is collected; and if the Government monitors purchases and sales on the Internet. [32129/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the result of the recent patronage competition for secondary schools in County Dublin, Firhouse, Lucan, Swords, Carpenterstown, Castleknock, Malahide and Portmarnock will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there has been an increase or decrease in the average domestic usage of water, outwith usual variations, since the suspension of charges was implemented; and if so, the amount per person on average. [31866/16]