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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: There has been a significant increase in public transport. As I said, 1,000 buses a day are going to and from the airport. This is a 10% increase on the bus services available last year. As the Deputy said, we have further bus improvements planned. There has also been a 20% increase in the number of taxi permits operating at the airport. The vast majority of passengers using taxis are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Significant bus enhancements are coming. The first we want to see is the planning decision on the Swords bus corridor. As soon as that is delivered, we will go into the process of implementing the BusConnects programme. A series of new services are planned that will come in with that initiation. These include the L81, L83 and L85 services, which are planned to serve the airport and go...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As I am sure the Deputy will be aware, the all-island strategic rail review has been undertaken by my Department in co-operation with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The review will inform the development of rail on the island of Ireland in the coming decades to 2050, in line with net-zero carbon targets in both jurisdictions. Work on the review is now at an advanced...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: This is an incredibly important day for the families who lost loved ones in the Stardust fire, but I am conscious that any sense of relief today's apology may bring is tempered by the fact they had to wait for far too long to hear it. Most of us in this Chamber know what it is like to lose a family member, but few of us will have experienced the devastation of losing a loved one in such...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (17 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: One of the key issues, the most important issue we all need to consider here, is how we protect the natural world, which is under threat.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, and the two go together. We just heard yesterday, that last month was the warmest month in recorded history. That was previously the case with February, January and December. We have never seen anything like the past ten months in a row----

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: -----in recorded history in the context of the scale of climate change.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The programme, if I can explain----

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Apologies.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: A Cheann Comhairle, this is deadly serious.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As well as those monthly increases, global ocean temperatures have jumped completely beyond what the scientists expected. The average temperature increase is more than 1.5°C. The best scientists tell us that when you go over 1.5°C, you risk crossing tipping points into runaway climate change that cannot be stopped, and that imperils us all. We know this at home because it has...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The uncertainty that we can have drought followed by flood is what is of such concern. That is why it is key to this Government's approach that we put that at the very centre of everything we do. Deputy Bacik is concerned that some of the comments of the new Taoiseach about people speaking down to farmers might possibly have been referring to someone from the Government side. That is...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The truth is that in the detailed surveys we have carried out, 85% of the Irish people have indicated that they understand this climate risk and want it addressed. Less than 5% are what we would describe as sceptics. The truth is there is no difference between rural and urban, young and old or rich and poor, because it is an existential threat to all of us.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The role we have for farmers is by the €1.3 billion agri-forestry programme and other programmes which we have agreed already in government.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We have been going around the country. I have visited every single county and every single council. I listened to what people think we can do. Government supports that. In two weeks' time, I expect to bring a memo to Government which sets out how we develop our just transition and that came from the farming organisations as well as the unions, employers, environmental NGOs and social...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We have rural bus services taking off incredibly, particularly in Kerry.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We have agreed only two weeks ago that the new measures we need to deliver in terms of active travel have to be decided-----

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: A Cheann Comhairle, if you would stop the clock.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We have agreed a first principle in the other change in transport. Everything has to change because of the scale of the challenge. The principle is that it comes from the bottom up. The local authorities will have to decide, and they are starting. Dublin City Council is to change the city this summer. Dún Laoghaire is doing the same. I will be encouraging every single councillor in...