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Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: It happens all the time.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Professor Joe Lee was on "Sunday with Miriam", Miriam O'Callaghan's radio show on RTE, last Sunday. He is one of our best historians and I listened with interest to such an impartial and reasoned observer. He was superb. He said something one does not often hear. He said that for all our stupidity and failings, we were battered but we stood back up. We looked up and out and maintained...

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On behalf of the Green Party, I want to express my view-----

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I attended the vigil last night and there was a sign displayed which made me think. It said, "It is all about love". I thought of those lines that every Irish married couple know from the letter to the Corinthians that "Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always [trusts, always protects,] always hopes, always perseveres". That was the mood at the vigil last...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Waterways Development (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 381. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has corresponded with Waterways Ireland on the disposal of the Grand Canal graving docks in the Grand Canal Basin; her long-term strategy for developing boating facilities on the Grand Canal; and if she supports the preservation of such dry dock facilities as part of the historic infrastructure in the Grand Canal Basin....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Authority of Ireland Inspections (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of the investigation of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and his Department into elevated polybrominated diphenyl ethers concentrations in milk samples, as outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency 2010 and 2012 dioxin reports on dioxin levels in the Irish environment; if he has identified the source...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postal Codes (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 537. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is a role for other postcode applications alongside Eircode; and the basis upon which he decides to promote any such technology via his Department's website and Twitter account. [15347/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has analysed the potential reputational damage for Ireland as a green tourism and agrifood country, given the introduction of hydraulic fracturing. [15349/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the circumstances under the Road Traffic Acts or regulations in which young children are allowed to cycle on footpaths due to the danger of mixing with motorised traffic on roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15348/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 555. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the assumptions in relation to global action to reduce greenhouse gases he has relayed to the Dublin Airport Authority in predicting future passenger demands and in deciding on increasing runway capacity. [15351/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (14 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the analysis he has carried out of the cap of existing airport infrastructure other than in Dublin Airport to meet passenger demand; the economic and cost-benefit analysis of these options. [15352/16]

Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Minister inform me now or later through my office as to when the Government intends to pick up again the employment equality (abolition of mandatory retirement age) Bill introduced in the Dáil last autumn? It fell at the end of the last Dáil. Does the Government intend to introduce it again?

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: In answer to Deputy Barrett, our job is to put in place the processes and in this respect the Government submission to the select committee on arrangements for budgetary scrutiny helps us to outline the milestones and the timelines. As the secretariat said last week, the best thing we could do is to slightly test the timeline and the process and the best way of doing so is to apply what we...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of order-----

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: I am sure there will be resistance. That is all the more reason to push against it. This committee's remit was given by the Dáil reform committee, not by the Government. There were extensive discussions at meetings of the Dáil reform committee on the legal aspects. We do not need to get caught up in a legal quagmire. We have already discussed a lot of the legal powers around...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: One cannot do it if it is not a real-world discussion. It must be done in real time and, as one we are doing that, we must be set up the full committee. This session is only going to last for one month or two months but we should do the June and July stuff.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: That is why I am disappointed that they are not here today. That is a delaying tactic.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his meetings with the Irish food industry regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the EU Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. [14245/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (8 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides and the State's monitoring of the reduction in bee numbers; the bee population in the years 2006 to 2016 to date. [14246/16]