Results 12,401-12,420 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I agree that every Department has to see cybersecurity as central to its operational capability and its own security. The NCSC has a particular role, however. It does work with Departments and-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That is a very sensible suggestion. I do not wish to comment too much on the second issue raised by the Chairman. The Government has agreed to give it a number of months before we respond to the report of the commission. It was independently published, in effect, today. The one point I will make is that the biggest economic development of this country in the coming two decades will be...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: In particular, and probably initially, it will be out on the entry to------

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: -----Shannon or from Shannon Port out and from Cork Harbour out. The ability to know what is happening with aviation in that zone where we will have a real economic interest is important, but also the kind of provision-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. I refer to the ability to have speedy turnaround times for naval ships. The proposal is to have dual crews such that the ship can come in to harbour, swap crews and sail straight back out again. It is about ensuring that whatever number of naval vessels we have, they can be turned around quickly and spend most of their time at sea, manned by alternating crews. Either of those will...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to consider all the analysis and information but it is probably going to be one of the issues at the centre of the debate in respect of the report of the commission. I would be surprised if the economic imperative for it does not support the case the commission seems to be making.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: On the last question, it is going to construction. Contracts have been signed. My understanding is that it is proceeding. On the Eircode, one of the other innovations or investment here is having shorter update and renewal of the Eircode system. Previously it was quarterly, and it is moving to monthly. A lot of people used to give out that it took a long time to be registered. One of...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate what Deputy Smith said about active travel. He is correct about where the people of Ireland are, in particular younger people, but not only that group. I will be honest. My frustration is that we need to go faster. The Government must come out of Covid with the same sense of urgency and speed of delivery that we showed during Covid in three areas: housing, further healthcare...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: What we heard from the Taoiseach yesterday is a clear commitment. We want the big transport infrastructure projects built. It does take a long time to build. The physical reality of getting from Lissenhall to Ranelagh is not a small project. It is huge and the complexity of it is not insignificant. I do not believe that people should look on the 2035 date as an inevitability. I believe...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: With regard to electric buses, as Deputy Smith stated, the 165 electric buses are going to go into operation in a very public and visible way. They are very much city orientated. To date, electric buses are not working on the long distance Bus Éireann routes. That is one of the reasons we put three trial hydrogen buses on the longer distance routes. To date, the battery electric...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That is due to Covid support. We had an enormous budget and as that declines, the budget decreases but not in the underlying sense. In the national development plan, a political decision was taken that for the first four or five years of the plan, housing will scoop the full pot. That is an appropriate political decision. However, in the second half of this decade - and my colleagues from...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will answer the Chairman first and then broaden out my reply. We have a Cabinet sub-committee meeting tomorrow. I was asked a similar question on the radio earlier and I said I cannot discuss the issue in advance of that meeting.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There would be no harm in the committee members sharing their thoughts with my colleagues the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, or the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to it.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There is sometimes strength in holding one's counsel and I will have to do that in this case, if I can, for the moment. On the wider point, Deputy O'Rourke is right. I will go back to what I said about this moment as we come out of Covid-19. Hybrid working and working from home have become realities, which is a positive development for towns and suburbs around the country because people...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I happened to have discussions with some of my officials on that topic this week. Everyone recognises that the old system, which assumes everyone is commuting five days a week for 30, 40 or more weeks per year, is no longer most people's lived experience. The NTA is engaging with partners to look at options to deliver more flexible projects. Everyone wants to do that. I was explaining one...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I agree fully.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Omerta.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We are not meeting 2:1 because we have a massively long list of road projects, local and national, which have been many years in planning and preparation. Many are close to construction or in construction and there is ability to deliver on all those. It is not the same in public transport. We have not had a history or policy of promoting public transport in the State. As a result,...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I met with Irish Rail on this issue during the week. Could we not reopen the rail line so that when the Ryder Cup is in Adare, people can get seamlessly from Shannon to the golf course on high-quality public transport? I think that could, should and will be done.