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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (31 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: MetroLink is a key project under the National Development Plan 2021-30 that the Government is committed to delivering. A significant milestone in the progression of the MetroLink project was cleared in July 2022, when MetroLink received Decision Gate (DG) 1 approval under the Public Spending Code (PSC) from the Government. This decision enabled the project to move to planning application...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (31 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 and 235 together. A significant milestone in the progression of the MetroLink project was cleared in July 2022, when the project received Decision Gate (DG) 1 approval under the Public Spending Code (PSC) from Cabinet. This decision enabled the project to move to the planning application stage and on 30 September 2022 Transport Infrastructure Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (31 Jan 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 in the Greater Dublin Area, including, in conjunction with TII, MetroLink.  Noting the NTA's responsibility in the matter, I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (31 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: MetroLink is at a relatively early stage of development and final construction costs will not be known until after the planning and procurement processes. Approximately three-quarters of the total MetroLink construction expenditure is expected to be funded by the Exchequer, with the remainder funded through public-private partnership (PPP) which will be repaid after services begin operation....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I go back to what I said to Deputy Doherty, namely, it is about quality and not just quantity, and we need to get balanced and good quality planning and development. I believe the national planning framework is correct in that we need more balanced regional development, more compact development and low carbon development. That means we need to see Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Again, I am afraid I am not as knowledgeable as the Deputy on the particular issue. I am uncertain as to whether it is the Minister for Justice or the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who should take this.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I might ask the officials to contact both the Minister for Justice and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to address the points the Deputy raises.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I know the heartbreak would not diminish despite the time that has lapsed. If, as the Deputy suggests, there is new evidence that might lead to resolving the family's anguish in this regard, I am certain that the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and his Department would make representations. As I said, they will have to make the most appropriate assessment of that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy suggests, I will have to ask the officials to ask the Department to come back on the specific issue of where the funding for that centre is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I was talking to the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, about this as he has responsibility in the area. We both agreed that the current situation is totally unsatisfactory and that the agencies, such as the Road Safety Authority, and all of the operations of the State need to make sure it is resolved. The operator has committed that, by the end of May, there will be a return to the 12-day...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We launched our recharging station strategy with Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland, ZEVI, last week. A critical element of that is new mobility car sharing centres. The reason Deputy McAuliffe is interested is because we have already introduced one in Finglas village, and it provides a model that we need to roll out across our cities in particular and across the country. It is the council...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Again, I will have to refer to the Department of Health and the Minister and ask them to respond on what the timeline is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In response to an earlier question, I mentioned the Castlemartyr bypass as a specific example of the type of project we want to accelerate. The consequences for villages and towns across the country where there is that volume of through traffic are very disruptive, and that stops what we are doing on the other side, with Croí Cónaithe and other projects, where we want to get...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We are all concerned about the situation that has evolved. It has been there for some time but was particularly acute in the first weeks of January this year.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: That concern over a period of time is why there has been an additional 1,161 staff in University Hospital Limerick in the past three or four years. One thing I am glad of is that, in that two-week period since that first crisis, the numbers, as I understand, have come right down. That should not-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: That should not make us complacent. We need the additional beds and resources. We need to support the management of emergency departments so that we do not have that bottleneck-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The policy decision by Government is clear. We are going to introduce the ability for private lines so that industry will be able to generate its own power and have battery storage and other systems that will allow it to be part of not just meeting our immediate energy security needs, which are very real, but also the need for decarbonisation. I will have to come back to the Deputy on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I had a meeting with the board of TII earlier this week. I said to it, as I will say to the Deputy, that we have a huge volume of projects. There are projects worth more than €70 billion, and that was before the inflationary period, with a €34 billion national development plan, NDP, pool and a pool where we have committed 10% funding to active travel and 20% funding to public...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The instruction we gave to CRU last April was to reverse that approach, and that has been done. In 2010, if I recall rightly, our economy was at real risk. The price of electricity for industrial providers was historically much higher than other European competing countries. There was a real risk of major job losses at a time when our economy was in real difficulty and in danger. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I believe it was appropriate at the time when our economy was at risk to make that change. I believe it is appropriate now for us to have directed CRU to reverse it.