Results 25,541-25,560 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Broadcasting Legislation. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: The legislation passed by this House gives the BAI that task. Yes, I would like to go back to 2006 and change the legislation-----
- Broadcasting Legislation. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----but one cannot undo legislation is such a manner. It is not appropriate for the Minister to ignore the legislation and the authority the BAI has to implement the task set out for it. When it is unable to complete the task and decides what the process should be, I will happily look at taking other action. It would not, however, be appropriate for me to ignore the legislation in the...
- Broadcasting Legislation. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It was set up by the previous Government.
- Broadcasting Legislation. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I have had a series of meetings with all parties involved on the State side including the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, the Networks company and ComReg, which has had a role in this on the spectrum side. At all stages I have done that on the basis of trying to get an outcome. I regret that that outcome has not come quicker and that the negotiations have taken so long. I have said that...
- Broadcasting Legislation. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I am deeply unsatisfied with the delays that occurred but that is the difficult commercial world we live in and I would not make that any easier by stepping inside-----
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: The Government has set a target of 10% of all vehicles to be powered by electricity by 2020, which equates to around 225,000 vehicles. Electric vehicles are an increasingly realistic option to the challenge of reducing the transport sector's greenhouse gas emissions and reducing our reliance on imported fossil fuels. There is now very significant global investment under way in research and...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: On the two questions, first, our intention is to bring in a number of different motor car companies to provide vehicles for this market as it evolves. I believe further agreements will be signed with other companies. I had a meeting with Mitsubishi recently and it seemed to me that we are close to signing an agreement with that company, among others. The real success we have had is getting...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy. I met with Shai Agassi of Better Place, one of the companies the Deputy mentioned, and said that we are open in that regard. This is new technology but we are at the frontier. We are the first country to put this out on a nationwide basis. This is one of the locations to which people will come to try to test out these systems. In terms of the way this will develop...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: The agreements with the leading international car companies are in effect exactly that. What we are seeing, with other companies such as IBM and its smart cities network coming in to work on the back of this, is a global tender. This is a global call from Ireland that we are going to develop this technology and inviting companies to test different systems here because we believe we will...
- Alternative Energy Projects. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: The Commission for Energy Regulation, CER, has statutory responsibility for grid connection offers and for oversight of EirGrid's grid connection process, including the Gate process for renewable energy. The CER decision on the Gate 3 round provides for connection offers for 4,000 MWs of renewable electricity capacity. Approximately 90% of these offers are wind powered capacity, including...
- Alternative Energy Projects. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: We must constantly review procedures to ensure we are delivering on our target to provide more secure, cheap and clean energy supplies. I take the point that we must constantly review the process. We must also examine what has gone wrong in the past. One of the reasons for our not developing as fast as we should was our stop-start policy. The moratorium introduced in 2005-06 had a huge...
- Alternative Energy Projects. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I disagree with the Deputy that the process is not working. If we are building 500 MW a year, which we will, I am told, do this year, that to my mind is what we need to be doing. Deputy Coonan implied earlier that I should allow the regulator to do his job. In a later contribution he stated that-----
- Alternative Energy Projects. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It is appropriate in a regulated market that the regulator and transmission grid company apply the proper planning constraints around the grid, which is the big constraint, and that the regulated market be allowed to make some of those calls. I do not have any involvement with any one wind farm or developer. It is best that this is approached on a scientific regulated basis, learning the...
- Alternative Energy Projects. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I do not have any time or interest in a speculative model. By and large, what we are seeing is a series of companies engaged in a proper market. The ones of which I am aware are reputable and are often State companies. I believe we must have good planning, regulation and grid management to make this happen.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 51, 63 and 75 together. The progressive introduction of electric vehicles into the road transport fleet is being promoted and supported in a number of ways in line with the Government target of 10% by 2020. These include the agreement with Renault-Nissan together with anticipated further agreements with other car manufacturers, the roll-out of infrastructure...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I expect serious numbers in the second half of this decade. As I have stated all along, we are deliberately placing ourselves at the forefront of what is happening. There is an element of experimenting and learning by doing. No country knows exactly how this will progress because no one has done it yet. No country is ahead of us but there are several countries alongside us, including...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Britain, for example, is developing the idea in five cities. However, there is a world of a difference when one is only considering short runs in and out of a city.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Yes, but it is not providing a national network. We must consider the proportion or the scale of the country. I am satisfied that we will have approximately 2,000 vehicles next year. At that stage, we will have the crucial test bed in place that will allow us to learn how it will work and how to make it work. There are risks attached and there will be difficulties but by learning by...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I suggest the Deputy stops for coffee half way.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I refer to the use of bus lanes by electric vehicles. I take the view "No, nay, never". Bus lanes are for buses.