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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: If the Deputy could provide those details I will certainly raise the case with the relevant Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have details on either the legislative or the specific circumstances of that facility. If the Deputy forwards them on, we can see if an answer can be found to the question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: A good town centre first strategy requires us to look at buildings that can be repurposed. It does seem that the courthouse in Tralee would be a very good example and there would be no difficulty from the Government side to look at how we can make best use of the building.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I am not aware of plans but if, as the Deputy says, the original proposal was from the Department of the environment, for which I have responsibility, I will go to my own Department to see if there is any mechanism or waiver system which we might be able to consider for such circumstances. They are very specific but the point the Deputy makes is a valid one.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I understand the Deputy is asking a direct question to the Minister for Education on that which she will be best placed to answer. On the broader point on investment in new school places, particularly in the move toward secondary, I recall that in the closing months of last year the Minister for public expenditure and reform, Deputy Donohoe, was at Cabinet agreeing on a significant...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As the relevant Minister, I will happily take the example the Deputy has raised and ask An Post why this is the case. We do not want State buildings lying vacant. I absolutely accept the Deputy’s point. I will raise it directly with the company myself.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I have been to every single council. What they were saying, and I agree, is that we need to protect our market towns and invest in them by taking out the through traffic. I will commit to making sure that happens in Tipperary as fast as anywhere else.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy that the forestry companies have a real responsibility and a legal obligation, subject to the conditions of licensing, to protect the area alongside power lines so they are not at risk from trees falling. If there is any specific instance that the Deputy might be able to report, that would be very useful. It should not be tolerated and it needs to change. I would...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with everything the Deputy says except the central contention that we should switch HVO into heating as well as transport. I say that having looked at and analysed it at length, along with other international colleagues. There is only a limited supply of HVO available in the world and we have to be careful of the land use implications if we rely on it further. That HVO is going to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy. To broaden it out, given it is a very fearful world and a lot of things are changing very fast in our world, there are understandable fears among our people. However, it tends to be supported by what I might call a nihilistic populist creed that tends to have certain key characteristics, particularly online. It does not believe in climate change, it is very...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: It is very distressing to hear of people in our community, who are by nature vulnerable, being in such a difficult situation and such an uncertain place. I do not have the details but if the Deputy can forward the information to me, we will definitely pass that on to the Minister for Health to see if the residents in this case can be reassured.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: One of the things the Government did was introduce the cost-rental equity loan scheme, recognising the high interest rate environment has changed the figures for cost rental regarding new building developments. We introduced that as a deliberate mechanism to support AHBs, in particular, to help reduce the cost. Cost rental is a fundamental and radical shift the Green Party in opposition...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: It is really difficult with the high interest rates. The Deputy could promise and not be able to deliver this magic money tree alternative.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I disagree with the assessment the Government kicked it off to the Oireachtas committee. The committee, in response to the citizens’ assembly report on repealing the eighth and in this instance, was the right place to assess, analyse and come to Government with recommendations of the report, which, as the Deputy said, it did in December, only last month. The Government will respond...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I am not aware of the steps but understand from the Deputy's question that the loss of the jobs has not occurred yet. I will follow up with the Minister, Deputy Coveney. In any instance of a large lay-off, redundancy or other arrangement, for example Tara Mines or a range of recent examples back through the years, this and any government works on a partnership basis and acts locally to try...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have a timeline and do not have a business case but we will review that when it comes in. We have seen significant increases in demand in Irish airports and have a dense network of airports providing international services compared to other countries. We have seen significant increases in Cork, Dublin, Shannon – all the airports, in effect. That makes a business case...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: No, not to my understanding.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I say to the Deputy what I said to him the other day. I look forward to going down to Tipperary town, a town I know well and one that needs a bypass. This is a complicated and controversial issue. Many Deputies have concerns about what roads we need to advance quickest. I have said publicly and in this House on many occasions our bypasses are the critical next investment we need to make....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: It is totally unacceptable if cloudy water is coming through someone's tap. We have to deliver to the highest standards particularly water so that people have confidence in the basic services. People should never have to buy bottled water in any part of the country. That requires an investment of €1.5 billion from the taxpayer, the same taxpayer who has to fund housing, the health...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I did not quite hear the Deputy's third question properly.