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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Electric Small Public Service Vehicle (eSPSV) Grant Scheme is in place to support the greening of the SPSV, or taxi, sector. It is aimed at improving air quality in urban areas, reducing the CO2 emissions of a sector which typically has very high mileage, and also can positively influence the uptake of zero emission passenger cars by improving general perception and awareness of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Advertising (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The total amount expended on advertising and promotion in the Department of Transport is €217,344.42 in 2022 and €29,187.48 in January 2023. In 2022, the above figures include €115,926.50 spent on the promotion of the public consultation on the draft EV infrastructure strategy and €38,466 for social medial and online campaign concerning the safe manning of shipping...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: At the end of January, there were 11 staff employed in the Press & Communications Division of my Department. The Division is responsible for press relations, social media engagement, event management, internal departmental communications, stakeholder engagement, behaviour change campaign development and support public consultations and citizen outreach programmes. The costs for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As part of Action 6 of the Government’s Road Safety Strategy a review is underway to examine the framework for setting of speed limits in Ireland including specific consideration of the introduction of a 30km/h default speed limit in urban areas. As part of the work of the group an assessment was carried out on the existing framework of speed limits including the current guidance...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy may be aware, as Minister for Transport I have responsibility for policy and overall funding of public transport, including rail. The operation, maintenance and renewal of the rail network and stations on the network, is a matter for Iarnród Éireann in the first instance. As the Deputy may be aware, an All-Island Strategic Rail Review is currently underway, having...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally. The NTA also has national responsibility for integrated local and rural transport, including TFI Local Link and the Connecting...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure and services in the Greater Dublin Area. This responsibility includes parking facilities, commuter rail services and implementing public...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from Councils’ own resources supplemented by State road grants, where applicable. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is a matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Programmes (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy may be aware, a whole of Government approach has been adopted regarding the response to the Ukrainian crisis. Within my own Department a high-level group was initially established to work in collaboration with the Senior Officials Group (SOG) lead by the Department of An Taoiseach to develop solutions to issues in the transport sector with the potential to inhibit the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Legal Cases (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In the past 10 years, my Department’s Human Resources Division has responded to 4 cases taken to the Workplace Relations Commission by individual employees under the Employment Equality Acts 1998 – 2015. I set out below, in tabular form, the information being sought by the Deputy in respect of these individual actions. Year No of cases Grounds ...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: It is difficult when in the middle of a crisis or a very difficult situation not to have a sense of being overwhelmed by it, or not to feel it will never end or that it is hard to see how it will be resolved. We are in that at the moment. As the Tánaiste said, the change that is happening across Europe because of the war and also in the wider world is unprecedented, with the movement...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I will be brief. I want to particularly thank my colleagues, the Minister, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, and the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, who is helping him. I believe they have done a remarkable job in organising that in a calm, humane, compassionate, all-hands-on-deck way. It is not just that Department but also the Department of Justice, given the way we welcome people at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chair and committee members for inviting me to speak today about the Climate Action Plan 2023. The plan was approved by Government in December last year and provides an update on Ireland’s climate action, as well as reporting on the progress made with regard to meeting our national emission targets of a 51% reduction in emissions by 2030 relative to 2018 levels and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: It is going to be an immense challenge. The scale and speed of change are beyond compare. The climate law, this committee, local authorities and the Government Departments all have a role. The law sets out some of those accountability mechanisms. As the committee is aware, there will also be a whole tranche of European law with 20 pieces of legislation on the Fit for 55 package that will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I should have said in response to the Chair that part of the architecture and infrastructure of governance and accountability is the Climate Change Advisory Council. It has a critical role. It is independent. Its members are appointed initially by the Government but I do not think anyone would doubt its independence. It has a critical role and it will be reporting and reviewing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In the allocation of the sectoral emissions ceilings, there are certain sectors where it is very clear where the responsibility lies. Transport, for example, lies with the Minister. Even though it connects through to energy and other areas, and housing and transport are inextricably connected, in truth the Department of Transport has the real responsibility there. It is the same with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: That is the big question. We are starting to see the ship turning around. I am seeing progress across a variety of areas. It is not as fast as I would like but momentum is starting to build. If the Deputy does not mind me providing a lengthy answer to his question, which is broad, I will provide examples. It is in the context of an increasing challenge. One of the key issues is that all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We have to be careful because one of the complexities, as the Deputy will know, is that our climate plan and targets are based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, accounting mechanisms. That 7% target was from the time this Government came into office and measures back to 2018. There are different European timelines and targets so comparing one with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Correct me if I am wrong, and my officials will be able to do so, but I think it was roughly in June last year when we got a detailed sense of how far and how big the gap was on LULUCF. Last summer, then, we were faced with having to set sectoral emissions ceilings. The choice could have been to put something in which was just completely without any foundation of policy or scientific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: It is not just on paper. There are 33,000 ha of land being rewetted as we speak, which is reducing real emissions. I do wish to increase this and we are setting 80,000 ha or so as the target. This is not on paper, it is real. The forestry programme introduced in November is also not just on paper. It is hard cash and will be revolutionary in its delivery. We are going to start to see...