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Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ----- to develop those solutions.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: To Deputy Verona Murphy, I would say the ESB is one company that over the State's history has done a huge service to the Irish people and it will do so again now. It has a critical role in delivering all the solutions we need at local level as well as thinking big about large offshore and other projects. It is companies like the ESB, Bord na Móna and Coillte - semi-State, public...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is never too late. It is never the wrong thing to do for the Deputies' sons and daughters and all our sons and daughters. This is a better alternative way to go. This is the way the new global economy is going.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: They happen to have the best resource. We have an advantage that we can turn to.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Also from Sinn Féin, I agree with Deputy Gould about the need for the taxi fleet to be ahead of the game. I will check with the NTA about the new grant system and make sure that it is getting a fast turnaround. However, one thing is sure. The taxi drivers I have spoken to, and I get a lot of taxis, say that it is a fraction of the fuel costs and they are really good cars.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Well, it is correct. We need to lead by public example in the public service. I also agree with Deputy Ó Laoghaire. The public service has to lead by putting solar panels on our buildings and particularly schools. I will follow this up with other Deputies but I would say that the Port of Cork, more than any other place, with the Shannon Estuary probably second, is where we would see...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: No one seeks to divide or to speak down.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I do not mean any disrespect.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I am stating the reality of what we can do.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The reality of what we can do is what we are doing. Some 400 houses a month now, which has gone up from 170 a month last year, are part of the warmer home scheme. We clear that backlog. That is practical and real. It is happening in the midlands.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is happening particularly in the midlands because that is area we targeted first in terms of retrofitting.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is happening.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland has a role in meeting what we have set out in retrofit; that will be key. To Deputy Murnane O'Connor, we will deliver that bus service for Carlow. To Deputy Alan Farrell, it is not just Shannon and Cork harbours although they will be the centres of development. The other area where the offshore wind will come ashore first is in Dublin....

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ----- but at every stage in this process we are using the joint committee which Deputy Leddin chairs in the same way we did in the last Dáil.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Committees are critically important. The Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action more than any other committee -----

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----or agency has had huge impact on the development of climate policy in this country over the past five years. If we can do that in the same way in the next five years we will meet these challenging budgets and targets. When Deputy Fitzmaurice says that we will not go offshore until 2032 that is not good enough and those timelines are too long.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I thank everyone who contributed to the debate. I will respond to as many of the points raised as I can that I was able to hear in the Chamber. The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, was present for the earlier addresses. I will respond very quickly. It will be rapid-fire but that is appropriate. On the 2018 figure referenced by Deputy Paul Murphy, this Government started in 2020...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: St. Augustine.

Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: President Zelenskyy today is one of a small band of national leaders who have addressed this House over the past 100 years. I want, if I can, to take some of the words we have heard previously, starting with former United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who spoke here some 59 years ago. The words he spoke then are just as relevant today. He stated: And no nation, large or...

Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Senator Norris. It is great to see him here today. That is the spirit which has people from our country bringing humanitarian aid to the conflict zone, with medicines to tend to the wounded and meals to feed the hungry people President Zelenskyy spoke about. They bring defensive shields against the weapons of war. It is in that spirit that the Irish people have opened and will...