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Seanad: Electricity Prices: Motion (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, and the mechanism it proposes, namely, abolishing the PSO, would stop investment in wind and result in the immediate closure of peat fired plants. Is that the intention of the Fine Gael Party? If not, I ask the Senators to amend their motion.

Seanad: Electricity Prices: Motion (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I did read it.

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (5 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The regulation of telecommunications operators, including regulatory issues surrounding the quality of broadband services provided to customers, is the responsibility of the independent Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). Surveys undertaken for ComReg during 2010 indicate high levels of satisfaction with residential and broadband speeds. Additionally, less than 2.4% of...

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (5 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The Warmer Homes Scheme (WHS), which is administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) on behalf of my Department, provides energy efficiency improvements to homes in, or at risk of, energy poverty. The scheme is delivered through a combination of community based organisations (CBOs) and a panel of private contractors. The SEAI and the CBOs identify and address...

Written Answers — Electricity Transmission Network: Electricity Transmission Network (5 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The planning and construction of electricity transmission infrastructure is a matter for EirGrid as Ireland's statutory State owned transmission system operator and I have no role nor intervene in the day-to-day planning and operational decisions by EirGrid in relation to transmission infrastructure. The planning process for strategic energy infrastructure is the function of An Bord Pleanála...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (5 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: There are eight EU Directives awaiting transposition by my Department. None of these Directives is overdue for transposition. Details of the Directives are shown in the following table. Title of Directive Due date for transposition Directive 2008/6/EC, amending Directive 97/67/EC, on the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services. 31 December 2010 Directive...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (5 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The provision of broadband services is in the first instance a matter for private sector service providers. ComReg's website www.callcosts.ie provides detailed information on the various private sector telecommunications products and services available on a county by county basis including County Wicklow. The Government does however, intervene in the market in instances of clear market...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (5 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The regulation of telecommunications operators, including regulatory issues surrounding bill collection and billing by operators, is the responsibility of the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) in accordance with its functions under the Communications Regulation Act 2002. Eircom has indicated to ComReg that it is in ongoing discussions with An Post on issues arising from the...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to this opportunity to speak on the statement issued by the Minister for Finance today on the banking crisis. No doubt it is a real crisis. As the Minister for Finance stated this morning, the figures that have been revealed are horrific and numbing in the sense of their scale and their implications for every person in this country. There is deep regret, and rightly, deep...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Unfortunately, I do not have a script. I am speaking extempore. On the argument that we should just let our whole banking system go, we must have regard of a number of points. First, much of our expert advice, for example, from the likes of Professor Patrick Honohan in his report into this banking crisis, stated such an approach would have lead to catastrophic social consequences - massive...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I believe we can recover from our situation.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I am confident we will as a people. The other factor to take into account is that the European and other international institutions at the time had all set their direction against such a course - the experience, it would seem, from the 1930s, having scarred into people's minds in the European Central Bank and elsewhere that such an approach of letting things go merely leads to much wider...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Crucially, such an approach would not have provided what following a NAMA approach has done, namely, a clear, independent, thorough, rigorous and in many ways ruthless assessment of the extent of the problem and the scale of the losses. That will be important when emerging from this situation, because as horrible and difficult as are these losses, I prefer to know what they are rather than...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: No, we are one of the worst examples but there are many examples.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Indeed. It was driven here by a property bubble.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: There was a property bubble at the heart of our problem and everyone must learn some lessons from that regarding our obsession in the latter part of this decade-----

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I guarantee Deputy Durkan-----

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I was indeed and I remember-----

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I remember listening to voices sitting in front of me in the Chamber, at that time who were calling for the scrapping of stamp duty to keep the property prices up.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: They also came from the Opposition side of the House.