Results 25,941-25,960 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----to stop this infrastructure from being delivered.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: That is the reality.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: That is happening.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It is bizarre to see-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It is bizarre to see Sinn Féin-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: One would expect Sinn Féin to be in favour of a project that involves North-South co-operation-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----rather than blocking it.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It is bizarre to see Fine Gael and Sinn Féin-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----working together to block the critical infrastructure they say they want.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I agree that we need to be ambitious with regard to broadband. However, I question Fine Gael's proposal to spend â¬50 million of State money this year in a way that would threaten the private sector's expenditure of between â¬600 million and â¬700 million on alternative networks. Fine Gael wanted to give money to Babcock & Brown, but I am glad I made a different decision. If the...
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It would risk everything in the State. Fine Gael wants to get rid of all our successful State companies in one fell swoop and replace them with an unbelievable construct - the quango to end all quangos - in the Department of the Taoiseach. Fine Gael suggests that this body would run the construction, electricity, gas, forestry and water sectors. The proposal simply will not work. The...
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I am prepared to have hours of debate on it.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Will the Deputy help me to get it delivered?
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Will he support the delivery of that grid? Will he act it out on the ground in reality?
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: The holding of everything company.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I regret that the information requested by the Deputy is not readily to hand. I will write to the Deputy as soon as it is available.
- Written Answers — Computerisation Programme: Computerisation Programme (18 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Cloud computing is one of the fasting growing IT sectors and offers significant benefits to users by allowing access to high level business applications and reduced costs. I am keen to see the development of such benefits in the management of information services within my own Department. In the development of such a new approach we would of course carry out the necessary due diligence to...
- Written Answers — Television Licence Fee: Television Licence Fee (17 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: An Post acts as my Department's agent in regard to the issuing of television licences and collection of licence fees under section 145 of the Broadcasting Act 2009. In undertaking this service, An Post provides a range of payment methods that can be availed of by the public. These include television licence stamps, which are available for purchase at all post offices, and a direct debit...
- Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Question Nos. 205 and 208 together. The proven environmental benefits of wind power include reduced greenhouse gas emissions and reduction in fossil fuel consumption while also enhancing security of energy supply. Once constructed, wind turbines produce no harmful gas emissions, no effluent, no waste products and no radioactivity. Every megawatt (MW) of installed Irish...
- Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (17 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I have requested by Department, in consultation with the Department's legal adviser, as well as ESB to review the relevant provision in the Electricity Amendment Act 1945 in light of national and EU environmental legislative developments.