Results 9,321-9,340 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I was down in Kerry last week, as it happens.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I was in west Clare the previous weekend.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will be heading back out west again this weekend. One thing I believe to be absolutely true is that it is in all our interests to stop the destruction of the natural world which has occurred over the past 50 or 60 years - within our lifetimes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We are not disconnected from the natural systems. If we lose them, we will not be able to restore them easily. We need to protect our water, our soil, our air quality and our land and the ecosystems within them. That is good in the long run for farming, forestry, tourism and so many other industries that bring wealth and prosperity to our country. We will work collaboratively and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: However, ignoring the biodiversity crisis and ignoring the destruction and loss of the natural world that has occurred in the past 50 years serves no one's interests. We have to look forward, restore nature and ensure that we maintain our prosperity in that manner.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It will be accepted if we provide an income-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: If I may make my point, it will be accepted if we can, in restoring nature, provide an income-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----to a new generation of farmers, foresters and people to look after the natural world. That will be a far more secure, a far more profitable and a far more prosperous future.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That is absolutely achievable. It will not work-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I have just as much an interest in the prosperity and the future of the Irish family farm-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That is absolutely connected to protection and management of that land.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We will need people, young and old, who see that the care of their environment and of their local area is central to what they do. That aspiration and that instinct belongs to everyone. It does not belong to any single party one way or the other, but we will not-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We have to work now to find a mechanism whereby we can do this in a way-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----that guarantees the future of the family farm, and that is what we will work towards with the European Union.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Meetings (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Chair for facilitating the question and the response. The extraordinary energy council meeting on 9 September in Brussels was to exchange views on the energy situation in the European Union. The meeting was split into two parts, with the first session covering policy options to alleviate the burden of high energy prices. The second session was on the state of play of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Meetings (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: While that was a key matter for discussion, there were different consequences for three members of the European Union: us, Malta and Cyprus. At an earlier meeting of the European Energy Council there had been agreement that we would not have to apply in Ireland the same mandatory reduction. It was also recognising the reality in our case that we are connected to the UK and Norwegian gas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will read out some of the response because it has been thought through. The first message is that the current high prices are caused by the war in Ukraine. I hope that is agreed by everyone in this House. Failure to understand that is really challenging because I do not see any other explanation. We face particular challenges because we are a price taker on international markets...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Those high profits and high prices are because the price of gas is ten times its historical average.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: If I can answer the Deputy's question as to what to do about those profits, certain generators who are not generating with gas will get a supernormal profit because the market price is way above their production price cost. We are working with the European Union, which is the appropriate way to do it. We address this as a wartime measure in response to what the Russian Government is doing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: To answer the Deputy's question as to why we are above the other European countries in price levels, it is because we are so dependant on fossil fuels. Other than the Corrib gas field, we do not have any of those fossil fuels. We have to import them all. It is because we have the most dispersed population in Europe and the price of getting electricity and getting gas and getting other...