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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (16 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 1431. To ask the Minister for Health if the agreement regarding the sale or lease of land at Merlin Park to Galway Hospice conforms to the approved process for such sales or leases; and if he will put into the public domain the agreement. [26098/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (16 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 1432. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the strategic development plan for Merlin Park Hospital, if it exists, which identifies future building plans within the current grounds of Merlin Park Hospital. [26099/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (16 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 1433. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reported plans to allow Galway Hospice to build on meadows adjacent to Merlin Park Hospital which have been classified as ecological sites of international importance and which likely meet the definition of EU annex 1 Lowland Hay Meadows. [26100/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (16 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 1839. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has consulted the National Transport Authority regarding the decision to postpone funding support for the design phase of the Dodder greenway and the design of new cycling routes along the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and the Liffey quays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26102/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (16 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 1838. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the board appointments he has made since taking office; the board vacancies which exist within the agencies and authorities his Department has responsibility for; and the process within which new board appointments have been made. [26101/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Bike Schemes (16 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 1840. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had any consultations with Dublin City Council with regard to the funding for an expansion of the Dublin Bikes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26103/16]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Ladies first. I am happy for Deputy O'Connell to go next.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am still trying to work out what I am going to say.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the witnesses for their amazingly wide-ranging responses. It must have been a terrible summer to be a macroeconomist. It has shattered and the shards are on the ground. We spent years thinking that GDP growth figures were gospel and now we suddenly realise that E = mc2 is E = mc3 in physics terms. It must be very difficult. Perhaps there is an opportunity in it. I apologise for...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Tutty is itching to speak.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: No. I would like to see the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council spread its wings and broaden the interpretation of the implementation of its mandate. We had an election that was defined by the relatively narrow issue as to what the fiscal space is. This budget debate will be defined largely around narrow figures of €1 billion one way or the other, which sounds flippant and is the marginal...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It could refer to it, in the same way as the council brought up Brexit as being a valid risk to the future of the State. It would be no harm for it to do that. The council recognising it as a risk would in itself be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Digital Single Market: European Commission Vice President for Digital Single Market (8 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I will start by welcoming Mr. Ansip. From working with people from the Estonian Government over the years, my experience has been that Estonia is a very enterprising country that has very close ties with Ireland. In such circumstances, Mr. Ansip, as an Estonian politician, is very welcome. I agree with his comments on the benefits from advancing this digital single market. I represent a...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 6:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann:” and substitute the following: “(i) commits itself to the highest international standards in transparency in the taxation of the corporate sector; (ii) resolves that no company or individual shall receive preferential tax treatment contrary to the Tax Acts; (iii) notes the decision of the...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Minister indicate what contact or discussions he has had with the US Government in this regard and whether he expects that Administration or European governments to take up the suggestion within the Commission's PR that the final tax paid in Ireland might not be €13 billion, in that the US Administration might collect an amount of that or European governments could change...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Donnelly is taking seven minutes so I have two minutes left.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: What the Taoiseach said today was similar to what Deputy Barry said. That is a rarity. The Taoiseach argued that we are not good at developing our own business. Deputy Barry said something similar for some Trotskyist reason I do not quite understand. He indicated that our capitalist system in this country is not working. I understood the Taoiseach when he said that Ireland as a country...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It is a terrible pity we do not have the final judgment from the European Commission and that we only got the Department of Finance's arguments late last night. However, I think we know enough to call it here between right and wrong and to make the call in terms of whether we should appeal or how we should appeal. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, set out in his speech, as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Economic and Social Research Institute (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: What about equality for someone who might want to take a break? The tax system, through individualisation, very much steers people towards working and two incomes. I agree it should be left to the mother or father. Why would we make that decision for some parents who may have a different view?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic and Fiscal Position: Economic and Social Research Institute (7 Sep 2016)

Eamon Ryan: No, I will come back to that previous argument that the Fianna Fáil decision to invest in child benefit left it to the parents to decide, rather than economists, what was good for kids.