Results 24,081-24,100 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Environmental Schemes (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 383. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role she has regarding the maintenance of ecosystem functions, including carbon sequestration and surface water management as well as the protection of biodiversity, in peatlands and cutover peatlands which are not subject to a nature conservation designation. [32132/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 498. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays being experienced by children in the Dublin 15 area in accessing occupational therapy assessment by the paediatric occupational therapy team in Blanchardstown and that a person (details supplied) has been waiting 15 months for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32133/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 537. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether it will not be possible, under current energy policy, to reach the 2020 renewable electricity target without deploying a broader range of renewable technologies, including offshore wind and solar, in view of the fact that Ireland’s 2020 EU targets for renewable electricity are legally binding...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether offshore wind has an important role to play in reaching our renewable obligations for 2020 in view of the fact that the cost of offshore wind is set to fall dramatically. [31865/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (25 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social work team leader and principal social worker positions within the child and family agency filled on an acting basis. [32130/16]

Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It is deeply disturbing that, more than 100 years since the start of the First World War, nothing seems to have changed. The big game still plays out. There are different views of history, but Britain's fear of Russia moving south to cut off the former's access to the east was one of the factors that created the conditions that led to the lunacy of the First World War. Russia is again...

Other Questions: National Spatial Strategy (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I encourage the Minister to include in her contribution on the national planning framework a look at land use strategy. In that regard, the potential exists to meet the objectives the Minister set in terms of employment and sustainable communities, to look at radical proposals taking both Coillte lands and Bord na Móna lands at scale and managing them in a different way, separating the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 5. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the protection of the Georgian graving docks in the Grand Canal basin; and if she will make a commitment to safeguard and improve the site, with a particular focus on Georgian heritage conservation. [31308/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The graving docks in the Grand Canal basin, near to here, are a very special place and arguably the most important point in the entire inland waterways system. All local representatives share real concerns over the plans of Inland Waterways Ireland to sell the lands to allow for development. This would be a fundamental mistake and would not just be throwing the baby out with the bathwater;...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Do I take it that Inland Waterways will not sell these lands? They are three individual docks which originally were for people to work on canal boats. There is a small one, a medium-sized one and a large one about the size of this room and all three are threatened with sale. Is the Minister saying these Georgian pieces of infrastructure, built in the late 18th century, are to be preserved...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I take it that this will be sold, because the SDZ allows for the development of the site. It seems that Waterways Ireland wants to spend the money in other parts of the network and does not care about the central core of the Georgian network in the centre of Dublin. Why will the Minister not intervene at this stage, rather than in the planning process? Why does she not listen to her...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: If this House ##called for Belfast docks or other key infrastructure in the North to be taken out, I have no doubt the Stormont Assembly would stand up for the preservation of its heritage. Why does the Government not want to stand up for the preservation of heritage in the centre of Dublin, which would be of huge economic value to the city?

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: There is a difference between Boston and Berlin so it is perfectly valid to use that in a question because in Boston, as in the rest of the United States, there is no statutory right to leave to help parents, whereas there is in Germany and Scandinavian countries. The Minister gave me no answer as to what fundamentally he would do differently. He seems to agree with the Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: How will they vote?

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Not for all families.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: This is a great opportunity to ask Deputy Varadkar a fundamental question. Where would he lead this country if he were Taoiseach? One aspect I wish to delve into is whether Deputy Varadkar is more Berlin or Boston in his attitude and thinking. A key example is where Deputy Varadkar lies on the issue of how we care for caring in this country. We know now that Fine Gael does not want...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Has Fine Gael locked us into a system that discriminates against parents in the home through our tax system and the provisions we have made? Does the Government have any plans for further improving parental leave or other measures that could help all parents equally and in such a way that the State does not determine or decide how people raise their children? Are these Government plans in...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: We can hear from Deputy Coveney next week and the Tánaiste the week after.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 15. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the protection of the Georgian graving docks in the Grand Canal Basin; and if she will make a commitment to safeguard and improve the site, with a particular focus on Georgian heritage conservation. [31137/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Archival Material (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the policy for the archiving of materials from the Mahon tribunal; and the locations they are stored currently and will be stored in future. [31309/16]