Results 11,001-11,020 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The sense I got when we were at that meeting in the boardroom of WIT with the directors of services of the university - there is now a university in Waterford - is that they are good people with real skills. I agree with the Deputy that funding ought to have been provided for the resources referred to. We agree on that point. However, the Deputy should not underestimate the skills in that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----under this green agenda. That is the story of our future.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the points the Deputy has made. It is important we recognise it when we increase payments because otherwise the political support for further increases will not be there. As the Deputy said, as part of the most recent budget, the capital disregard for carers increased from €20,000 to €50,000. That was not insignificant. The improvements in the income disregard...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We will take that into consideration. I understand the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, last year published a cost of disability report that might help to back up some of the Deputy's argument. I believe the Deputy is looking at a wider and important budget issue. Over the years, Social Justice Ireland has made a case similar to that the Deputy is making, that is, we could look at the use of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There has been and is, and the fact is that we have been able to manage 25,000 is unprecedented. There has never been a case of such numbers coming so quickly and we will manage the further numbers to come. It is not only Government. It is coming from the bottom up. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Anne Rabbitte, has informed me that in Waterford there are 20...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----and student accommodation. There is a plethora of different facilities being provided. It is difficult but my sense is it is working. We have no choice. It has to work. We have to provide an open door.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: No Deputy in this House needs to explain, burnish or think one is better than the other in terms of green credentials. Like in our country, there is broad consensus and understanding that the science is real on the likes of climate change and we must act. I read in detail, as well as attending, some of the debates yesterday, and while there was heated debate and discussion on some of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae's brother yesterday, in his contribution, as I recall reading it, recognised that electric vehicles are the better cars and that we need to make this switch.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae can read "the blacks".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: To make the point, this does not belong to any one party, Independent or otherwise.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It will not work if we are pointing the finger at one person versus the other.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Shanahan will recall I met him when we visited WIT a few months ago and I visited the local authority. My sense of Waterford City and County Council is it is absolutely up for it. They are committed. They were all talking about how we put in the resources to make this happen. There was an the event in Rosslare last week on the development of the port for offshore renewables. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ----- to develop as a sustainable centre. It is already happening. I note the amount of jobs that have been delivered in Waterford in the past year and they are the type of jobs, the type of people and the type of companies that want to be part of this green transition. I fundamentally disagree with the analysis that we are not looking to the south-east as part of this transition. My...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Some of colleagues words are ringing in my ears to point out the truth, as I understand it, that the emergency department in Waterford Hospital is the top-rated in the country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: But, if I am a patient, what I want is to be in the very best centre.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: What I hear told is that Waterford is the best.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The best. I am also told-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I understand the Deputy's statistics are from some 25 years ago but taking-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Taking them, there is a correlation. Some of those figures include the very same people I am concerned about. The deaths due to air quality are also connected to poverty. It tends to be the same people, so the two issues go together.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Does Sinn Féin accept the legal advice we have received-----