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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy is right. We have to ensure that the does not result in other areas falling back. As the Deputy asks, I will talk to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and see what plans he has in this regard. No one wants to see someone with cancer burdened with another worry about finances. Considering how we do that and how we deliver universal healthcare would be the best...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I assure the Deputy that the north side is just as much in our minds, attention and-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That does not come from any Government direction or an inclination on its part not to support the north side over the south side. The Deputy mentioned the active travel fund. I remember talking to an engineer who said he had not seen a previous example where pretty much everything Cork had looked for we had been able to deliver. Cork has been ambitious and a bit ahead of the curve in some...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: And the Government too.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I do not think the Government will ever share legal advice.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: They may, but we are not a British Government.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We have a Constitution and laws that are based on it, with certain protected rights, unlike others that I will not mention. This is a living issue and an immediate concern for people. There has to be a balance between the right to protest and to people being protected. The Government is committed to delivering the zones. My understanding from the Attorney General's legal advice is that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: My glasses are good but they are not that good. I ask the Deputy to send me the details. On Tuesday, €25 million was announced as being allocated to Meath County Council for local roads. The overall figure was a 4% increase on previous years. It is important that we maintain what is called steady state quality of roads. If they are let go, they cost more to repair, and there are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I commit to doing that. I am sure I will be joined by colleagues in saying how much people are inspired by the bravery and strength of people such as Charlie Bird. That vision of going up Croagh Patrick is poignant and powerful. We wish him and everyone else involved well. I will raise it with Government colleagues to see if there is anything we can do to help.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy makes a good point. I will have to look into it because I do not have the details of why it is so difficult to get that Covid certificate in place in time. The Deputy is right that people are now looking forward, as more normal life returns, to starting to travel. If they are restricted in that way, that would be a real problem. I will follow up and come back to the Deputy with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have the details but I will follow up and try to get the Department of Education to respond to the Deputy with urgency. It is not right that the school is in such an uncertain place.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will give my personal view based on real experience in Dublin. In 2018, we came very close to drought in Dublin. There is undoubtedly a real issue with water supply in Dublin. I was in Shannon and Ennis last week and I also have long held the view that we need better balanced regional development. A lot of water use is industrial. People do not see it or notice it, but it is huge. If...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: One of the measures announced last week was a change to the rules on school transport. That applies more to rural than urban areas, but it was very much targeted at the parents of young children. There are also changes in prescription charges. In addition, the many parents who cannot afford a car will benefit most from a cut in the cost of public transport. It is very expensive to pay for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We clearly recognise that we have an issue with data centres. We cannot just have an open door whereby every new data centre that wants to get onto the grid is connected. If we did that, we would blow our climate budget and so on. We have introduced much-needed new arrangements. A data centre that wants to connect to the grid has to be part of solving the problem we have with managing the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to that meeting. About 25 people sought a meeting. It will be tricky to arrange everyone's diaries but I will happily do whatever I can to facilitate it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I met the council and the chair and chief executive of the Shannon Group. We are close to final arrangements involving the likes of Bunratty and the Cliffs of Moher retail unit going to Clare, King John's Castle going to Limerick and so on. There is remaining debt and those issues have to be resolved. It is appropriate that Clare County Council is taking over Bunratty. It will get revenue...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. We intend to introduce a circular economy Bill, which will have a whole range of provisions to help to reduce the amount of materials we are dumping or seeing going to waste. I fundamentally agree with Deputy Fitzmaurice. When I was originally a city councillor in Dublin, I remember the shock of realising that one third of our landfill then was demolition waste. It was often very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It will not be one year, it will be quicker than that. A lot quicker. This Government has three years to run and I believe that it has the necessary plans: Housing For All, the climate plan and the national development plan. The Housing For All plan also commits exactly to the sort of measures that Deputy Fitzmaurice was talking about. Across all Departments we now have to focus on...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We need to spend about €12 billion per year to really tackle the problem. Some €4 billion of that will come from the State and €8 billion from elsewhere. My job and my role, and what I want to do, comes back to what I said about Dublin Port: do we need all of the land with the expectation that it would double the amount of traffic in the port? I would say "No". We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Deputy Grealish. He has been raising this issue privately and publicly consistently with me over the past two years. He has raised a very valid concern for the 54 families in a very difficult position. I absolutely understand and see the argument in the case he is making on their behalf. This is a controversial project that has been long delayed like many other transport projects...