Results 1-12 of 12 for tenet speaker:Eamon Ryan

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...coming to our country in a way that makes sure we can deliver the services and what we are required to do under international law, under the convention for refugees, under the European law and under the basic tenets of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We will need to continue to evolve and within the coming weeks, the Government will look at how we manage on a more...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (9 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...the SPSV industry. Dispatch operators are regulated in Ireland by the NTA. They are permitted to provide bookings to SPSV licenced drivers using SPSV licensed vehicles, only. A fundamental tenet of Ireland’s SPSV regulatory regime is that only SPSV licenced drivers and vehicles are used for the carriage of passengers for reward. In relation to arrangements between...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (25 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ..., FreeNow and Lynx, as dispatch operators, are regulated by the NTA. Dispatch operators are permitted to provide bookings to SPSV licensed drivers using SPSV licensed vehicles, only. A fundamental tenet of Ireland’s SPSV regulatory regime is that only SPSV licensed drivers and vehicles are used for the carriage of passengers for reward. Ireland's regulatory framework requires...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...be nice to click our fingers and say, "I want 5,000 foresters tomorrow", but these must come in the context of training and financial support from the Government and we will provide it. The first tenet here is the need to get democratic consent. The second is that the State does not break contracts. I accept the Deputy's point about the data centres adding to our electricity demand...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...for reward, it is subject to the same regulations as other SPSV operators. Dispatch operators are required to only provide bookings to SPSV licensed drivers using SPSV licensed vehicles.  A fundamental tenet of Ireland’s SPSV regulatory regime is that only SPSV licensed drivers and vehicles are used for the carriage of passengers for reward, to protect the consumer and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (28 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...the same regulations. The NTA has licensed Uber as a dispatch operator. Dispatch operators are required to only provide bookings to SPSV licenced drivers using SPSV licensed vehicles.   A fundamental tenet of Ireland’s SPSV regulatory regime is that only SPSV licenced drivers and vehicles are used for the carriage of passengers for reward.    I met with Uber...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (28 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...Act 2013.  Dispatch operators are regulated in Ireland by the NTA.  They are permitted to provide bookings to SPSV licenced drivers using SPSV licensed vehicles, only.   A fundamental tenet of Ireland’s SPSV regulatory regime is that only SPSV licenced drivers and vehicles are used for the carriage of passengers for reward.    Ireland's...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (24 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...) transformation. Local communities will be key to the decision-making process of community engagement initiatives during Ireland’s offshore renewable energy journey.Public participation is a central tenet of the Maritime Area Planning Act (2021) which establishes a new planning regime for the sustainable development of our offshore...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...crisis. It must be a shocking profession to be in at the moment when no one really believes anything in terms of the economic analysis. Kate Raworth, who wrote Doughnut Economics, says the basic tenets of the textbooks should be thrown out. The first lesson I learned in economics is that people are profit maximisers. However, all the assumptions of all the models arising from that have...

Seanad: Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon Revenue Levy) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...in setting the rate higher, one would create a risk that the levy would start to claw back sums from generators in excess of the windfall gains they are making in practice. One of the fundamental tenets of the levy is that it can be justified because generators are, in effect, getting something for nothing. We should not lose sight of that in trying to increase the percentage rate at...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (24 Sep 2008)

Eamon Ryan: ...'s decision in the Energy Policy White Paper and the Programme for Government, to transfer the ownership of the electricity transmission assets from ESB to EirGrid. It is also a fundamental tenet of Government policy that we retain the electricity and gas networks as strategic national assets in State ownership. The unbundling of the transmission assets involves the resolution of complex...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Eamon Ryan: ...secondary schools. Children in my constituency do not have basic facilities to play a game of football in their schools or the curricula set out to rate sport where it should be, that is, a central tenet in the development of a child or young man or woman. While our country has advanced and modernised in many different ways, I see no real change in modern thinking or an emphasis placed on...