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Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...a baby born at 37 weeks or less is premature. Let us treat them all the same. Our estimate, when the social welfare benefits and other supports are included, is that the proposal would cost €5 million. The Secretaries General of the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform appeared at the meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and they batted off a...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...mothers and babies. I have seen oxytocin used as part of this active management of labour. Symphysiotomy was also part of that system. The Minister for Health said certain labours went on for 50 hours. We have created a managed system which tells a woman that if her chart is not going the right way within 12 hours, the doctors will intervene and apply oxytocin which has real medical...

Priority Questions: European Defence Action Plan (13 Dec 2016)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister of State says this does not affect our neutrality but at a certain point it does and we are at that point with a €500 million per annum research budget which we want to tap into, and a €5 billion capability window to build up a defence industry. As the Minister of State said, there are hybrid threats, cybersecurity threats and dual-use opportunities for which we...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (8 Dec 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...have to look after the 2,000 or so people in the midlands who work in the area. A practical, very realisable project to do that, which would benefit hundreds of thousands of homes, involves the 1 million oil-fired central heating systems in houses around the country. They have to go. This is the sort of change we need to make. We should set a ten-year plan to switch them. As we do so,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ..., which were genuinely universal, to target parents with young children, in particular, and support them. Admittedly, there was an increase to the home carer's benefit but it is marginal. Some €5 million or €6 million was allocated for hundreds of thousands of people so it is almost negligible. Therefore, what has been introduced is discriminatory by definition. I do not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Regulations (27 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...that are very heavy users of pesticide and herbicides. It is not unimportant for us to start managing our rural system. It is not as if the whole farm would be disadvantaged since it is only 5% of the overall land area. In those key areas, it would be right and proper for us to be truly Origin Green, to live up to the €364 million that we are providing in green subsidy supports...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...the budget today. Maybe I am missing something. I would like to hear chapter and verse of what it is tomorrow. There is a third issue for young people. There was a big hurrah over the €35 million to be given for third level education, which I welcome. However, Fine Gael’s manifesto acknowledged that our third level sector is in such a crisis that it needs an immediate...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...I fear, into the same conditions that caused the crisis in the first place. It is not all bad. Everyone welcomes the amount of money allocated here and there. It is great for pensioners to get €5. It could be more, but everyone agrees that it is good. It is a kind of one-for-everyone-in-the-audience-type budget. However, when it is such a kind of budget it raises the...

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...in which we made the mistake of cutting the capital budget too much, one real, terrible mistake in my mind was not going ahead with the metro north project. It was sitting there ready to go. A €500 million EIB loan had been agreed; we would have got the cheapest deal possible. The contractors had spent years and millions of euro setting up the bidding process. It was the perfect...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...that expenditure on water and wastewater services under the then Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr. John Gormley, was twice as high as it has been in the past five years. We spent €500 million per annum on this area because we recognised it as a priority. There is common agreement that the low level of capital expenditure presents one of the greatest...

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...good for the profits of the food processing companies but bad for the hearts and heads of the people of this country. It requires the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to take what is a €100 million investment out of a multi-billion euro transport investment budget to promote the forms of transport that makes us healthier, such as walking and cycling, and to start to...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (20 Jan 2011)

Eamon Ryan: ...full year of Exchequer funding in 2008 amounted to €6.5m. 3. Merge DHDA with EI/IDA(McCarthy Report) Review of DHDA currently underway 4. Merge ComReg with BAI(McCarthy Report) Not implemented 5. Transfer IFCO into BAI(McCarthy Report) Not implemented 6. Merge OSi and the Valuation Office with the PRA(McCarthy Report) Not implemented 7. Merge Regional Fisheries Boards(McCarthy...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...mobile and broadband communications markets. These reports demonstrate the significant progress in broadband roll-out over recent years. At the end of June 2010 Ireland had in the region of 1.48 million broadband subscriptions and narrowband connections had reduced to less than 5% of all Internet connections. The year-on-year growth in subscriptions over the preceding 12-month period...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ..., mobile and broadband communications markets. These reports demonstrate the significant progress in broadband roll-out over recent years. At the end of June 2010 Ireland had in the region of 1.48 million broadband subscriptions and narrowband connections had reduced to less than 5% of all Internet connections. The year-on-year growth in subscriptions over the preceding 12-month period...

Written Answers — Energy Prices: Energy Prices (30 Nov 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...the all-island wholesale electricity price. This wholesale price reduction should be taken into account when quoting the cost of the wind-related PSO for this tariff year. In this regard, €43 million is the extra wind-related PSO cost in Ireland for the current tariff year. Against this cost, CER modelling shows that the all-island wholesale electricity price (the System Marginal Price)...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ..., mobile and broadband communications markets. These reports demonstrate the significant progress in broadband roll-out over recent years. At the end of June 2010 Ireland had in the region of 1.48 million broadband subscriptions and narrowband connections had reduced to less than 5% of all Internet connections. 85.8% of SMEs are now using broadband speeds between 2mbps and 10mbp and of...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (16 Nov 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...of March 2007, for example, the number of broadband connections, at 600,000 approximately, first exceeded narrowband connections. At end June 2010, by comparison, Ireland had in the region of 1.48 million broadband subscriptions and narrowband connections had reduced to less than 5% of all Internet connections. 85.8% of SMEs are now using broadband speeds between 2mbps and 10mbp and of...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (10 Nov 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...of March 2007, for example, the number of broadband connections, at 600,000 approximately, first exceeded narrowband connections. At end June 2010, by comparison, Ireland had in the region of 1.48 million broadband subscriptions, narrowband connections had reduced to less than 5% of all Internet connections and of the homes with broadband access, 77.8% of them are using broadband speeds...

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...and early 1990s when it experienced a property bust, albeit not as dramatic or difficult as ours. At that time however, interest payments there as a percentage of disposable income was closer to 15%. Consequently, while the costs are high and the legacy for certain key groups are very difficult, it is not impossible. I will provide another figure from a macroeconomic perspective to give...

Written Answers — Energy Efficiency: Energy Efficiency (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...the Home Energy Savings Scheme (HES), the Warmer Homes Scheme (WHS) and the Energy Efficiency Retrofit Fund (EERF) for Public and Business Sector. The table does not include current costs of 47.5 million associated with the administration of these programmes. Programme/Project 2010 Capital Budget Amount paid out in 2010 to date (€) Home Energy Saving (HES) Scheme 43.6 million 28.72...