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Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I will not give way. I have five minutes.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: It will be democratic because at the very centre of it-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----because at the very centre of it will be the work of an Oireachtas committee that will be required first and foremost to help steer it in the right direction.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Second, when the initial reports are concluded, they will be considered and acted upon as we move into the proper phase of the commission's work. When that work is concluded, be it an interim report or a final report, we will conduct the necessary hearings-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----based on the facts that have been found, which an Oireachtas committee would not as easily be able to find, to hold people to account and to ensure we have a cost effective, timely inquiry.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The mechanisms set out will achieve those objectives.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: They will only work if we in this House stop playing political games and start working together in the interests of the people-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----to try to ensure that our banking system never again makes the mistakes that were made in recent years. The investigation needs to examine the regulatory side of the banks, what the banks are doing, while cognisant of the fact that it is the courts which have primary responsibility for convicting people, if appropriate, who have carried out illegal activities within the banks. It should...

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: We have to take account of lessons that we learned in the course of the mini-CTC inquiry, which came to a dead end because it did not have the right structure. We have taken account of the likes of the DIRT inquiry, in which Deputy Rabbitte was involved. One of the reasons that worked is that a similar process was involved whereby a report was delivered first to establish some of the facts,...

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----and how we can stop it happening again. That can happen with the structure proposed.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: There will be many occasions when the investigation will be done in public as well as being done on the back of investigative work to find the facts.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: It is a combination of public work and proper fact finding through the appropriate structure set up by the Oireachtas.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: It is an inquiry carried out by the right public bodies, in public and in the public interest. That is the crucial requirement we have to meet and we will.

Meath-Tyrone Interconnection Project. (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: While I have no direct role in the operational planning and construction of transmission system infrastructure, the Government's policy objective is to ensure that energy is consistently available with minimal risk to supply disruption, to meet the needs of businesses and domestic consumers. It is EirGrid's role, as the national transmission system operator, to develop and upgrade the...

Meath-Tyrone Interconnection Project. (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: The number of staff employed by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources on 1st January 2009 was 298 full-time equivalents. This number has decreased to 272 on 10th December 2009. This represents a reduction in staff numbers of 26, or about 10%, in that period.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: The details of the programme changes that will be made by my Department in order to achieve the savings estimated for 2010 are as set out on pages E. 64 and E. 65 of the 2010 Estimates for Public Services and Summary Public Capital Programme.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: The remuneration of the Chief Executive is in the first instance a matter for the board of An Post. In 1999 the Government introduced new arrangements for determining the salaries of CEOs of Commercial State Bodies. Under these revised arrangements the Minister for Finance periodically commissions independent reviews of the remuneration of the CEOs of Commercial State Sponsored Bodies....

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: The remuneration of the Chief Executive is in the first instance a matter for the board of ESB. In 1999 the Government introduced new arrangements for determining the salaries of CEOs of Commercial State Bodies. Under these revised arrangements the Minister for Finance periodically commissions independent reviews of the remuneration of the CEOs of Commercial State Sponsored Bodies. Current...

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 314 to 316, inclusive, together. The Warmer Homes Scheme, for which funding is being provided in 2010, supports energy efficiency improvements to homes in, or at risk of, fuel poverty. The Scheme is administered by Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI). SEI provides funding directly to local Community Based Organisations (CBOs) for the delivery of the Warmer...