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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Dublin, BusConnects is about to come out of the planning system and we need to build that, subject to political support. It is not just BusConnects but also the other road space reallocation we need to do which will require political strength and courage at local government level to make some hard decisions to make the public transport system work. It is the same in Cork where I expect...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...problem we have within our UN institutional structures. It is in that tradition we would also recognise that the work we are doing, as I said earlier, such as in the Common Security and Defence Policy is, in effect, an agreement among EU states to improve their defences. It is not yielding our military neutrality. It is looking to co-ordinate in order that our troops, our sailors and...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...January last where a quarter of the workforce was out due to Covid. It was a choice of going the way of other European airports and cancelling a significant volume of flights or looking to get the Defence Forces to help. It is true that where the real bottleneck was, particularly that skilled work of screen monitoring baggage, was not something for which anyone, the Defence Forces or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: .... This is something the Government discussed at the Cabinet subcommittee the other day and we would be very open to it, but it has to be led by those on the front line. The Minister for Defence and I have had lengthy discussions on the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. We have to deliver on it. We have to deliver additional resources to our Defence Forces. The report...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The Green Party is opposed to Ireland's entry into PESCO. It runs contrary to Ireland's tradition as a neutral non-aligned country and it will not serve our people or armed forces well in the great work that the latter have done representing us in peace missions overseas. We regret that the process by which approval is being sought - at incredibly short notice and without proper debate or...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I met the partners of people in the Defence Forces outside the gates of this House today and yet again I am hearing the same story, that our defence forces are at point of real crisis under the Minister of State's watch. That extends from officer level down to private level. We are all rightly proud of our Defence Forces, the work that 790 or so of them are doing in overseas missions and...

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...headquarters of the United Nations mission in Chad, which was a joint mission involving European and non-European armies. It was an incredibly complex, dangerous and difficult mission which the Defence Forces carried out with great professionalism and skill. Our military showed great intelligence as regards its position. The Defence Forces headed the mission and an Irish officer was...