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Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...greatest extent, with some counties now having no rail service at all; — Ireland has the lowest percentage of its rail network electrified of any European country, with 3 per cent electrified compared to an European Union average of 54 per cent; — underinvestment in rail infrastructure is continuing, reducing the quality of service on all lines and undermining the viability...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...of the change we need to make. We are all in favour of retrofit but we should recognise that the national development plan, which will have to change, states that by 2021 we will be deep retrofitting 45,000 houses to a B rating or higher. Last year we did 220. How will we go from 220 to 45,000 in two years? We do not have the workers or the financing mechanism set up. There are so...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We need to be forensic in determining what went wrong and how the Government blew €500 million of the public's money on this hospital, €500 million more than what was indicated in the contract in February 2017. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on 5 February, I asked Deputy Donohoe to provide to the committee a detailed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...that it is purely a social case. I would love to see us drive Bord na Mona towards the retrofit business. The economic cost to the State of Bord na Mona continuing to run peat-fired power stations to 2025, to give that as an example, must be some 5 million tonnes a year. If we stop that earlier, let us say in 2020, in that five years we are taking about saving 25 million tonnes. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...to make a submission. Surely, as part of this process, Mr. McCarthy will have to have an answer to my question. The figure needs to be a multiple of €3 billion because we are facing €600 million in fines in respect of the carbon gap we have. Professor John FitzGerald suggested €5 billion should be spent on the retrofitting of public buildings for social housing...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...where something is done right. I was glad to see the relatively significant increase in overseas aid funding. It is critical for this country, particularly when we are in receipt of €9.5 billion funds in corporation tax which largely comes from our location. As the domestic centre of companies that deal in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, we more than anyone else have an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...a good one and this national climate and energy plan structure is right because it says we have to think 30 years in advance. We have to think big and that we will be doing 20 GW of offshore and 5 GW of interconnection. A million homes are going to have to be retrofitted and we are going to have to spend €5 billion on social homes. It is that kind of big thinking. We have to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...not been funded and I am interested to know how we do this. Professor John FitzGerald at another Oireachtas committee said that for Ireland to meet its climate change targets we need to spend €5 billion retrofitting just the social housing we already have to make it zero carbon and into quality housing. This is the best low carbon mitigation and we have to do this because Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...or unfortunately, and one can pick which is the right word, I do not believe we will strike oil or gas. Relying on it as a security strategy is like relying on a gambler who is putting the last €5 in the slot machines in Las Vegas. That is the territory we are in. Where do the witnesses think oil and gas might be found? From which field will we get this great security? If I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...the Chinese as we could. That is why our figures are so poor. The graph is dramatic because it shows the possibility of more ambitious targets. I do not see how we can have any emissions in 2050 at the level of 5 million tonnes. That holds even if we accept the unambitious Government target, as Deputy Smith put it, of 800,000 tonnes per annum. The latest EPA figures show that the...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: .... What it does is to continue the doughnut tendency which we have seen in all of those graphic maps from ten or 20 years ago that show the number of people who are commuting long distances - the 250,000 people the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, referred to in his speech in the House, who are spending more than two hours a day on their commute and travelling 30 to 60 miles to our cities....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...system. On the scale, we should cotton on to land use, land-use change and forestry, LULUCF, and carbon sequestration. Even stopping peat production and the big power plants would mean that 5 million tonnes per annum of emissions from peat could be saved almost immediately. Doing the devil and all in grass management, we might get 1 million tonnes of carbon abatement or carbon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Mr. Sharkey. I am full of hope that we, as a country, will be brilliant at this. According to the EirGrid calculator, wind generates 2,951 MW, which is amazing, although it is a windy day. I think of the former head of EirGrid who swore to me only ten years ago that the maximum wind generation would be only 800 MW in the Irish system and that it was physically impossible and...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...repayments are in the order of €3 billion less than was expected three or four years ago. As is said in the finer detail of the budget papers that are worth reading through, we have about €400 million extra this year because, thankfully, the jobless figure is reducing. What is being saved in unemployment benefits is giving us a €400 million boost. Only the dark...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is growing at 5% per annum. Some 150 million tonnes of that plastic is now in our seas. We are adding a dump truck every minute. We have to stop this and cut out the waste. It is not easy. It takes attention. This is vital to the question of how much people have to pay, because rather than having to pay for all that and work out whether it is recycling, which most of it is not when...

Waste Reduction Bill 2017: First Stage (20 Jun 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...of plastic and aluminium cans which are currently being dumped rather than going into recycling. People may be familiar with the broad statistics. Our use of plastics has risen from approximately 5 million tonnes per year globally in the 1950s to approximately 110 tonnes today, 8 million tonnes of which is ending up in the oceans, polluting the natural environment. It is the equivalent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...something like €3 billion since 2009. I thought that was a bit of an under-investment. That was my concern when I was looking at it. It may be above international expectation, but over 15 years the price for the 3.6 GHz spectrum works out at €4 million or €5 million a year. I was slightly concerned when I saw the figures.

Other Questions: Traffic Management (10 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: My question is set in the context of the latest report, according to which the €350 million cost of traffic blockages in Dublin will increase to €2 billion unless we do something about the issue. I am keen to hear about the Minister's measures to reduce congestion. Everyone can see that, with the economy growing quickly, Dublin's traffic is like the Richter scale - when...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...part of those resources must tap into community resources to achieve a multiplier. Finally, what comes next after the autumn? What comes next in our commitment? Where do we go from here? This is 4,000 out 5 million or 6 million refugees and 11 million displaced people in the country, so it is only a drop. What is our policy on what comes next after this original commitment?

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: In September 2015 the Tánaiste promised, on behalf of the country, that we would accept some 4,000 refugees from Syria as part of a co-ordinated response from Europe to the refugee crisis, which in scale is beyond anything we have seen in my lifetime. In that country of approximately 23 million, 500,000 have died, with 2 million people disabled because of lost limbs or other...