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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (8 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...2024. Key questions posed in the issues paper include those seeking the views of wider transport and energy sector stakeholders on the future demand for alternative and advanced e-fuels in the land transport, aviation and maritime sectors, and seeking to identify what supporting measures should be established to meet the required infrastructural targets mandated under AFIR. ...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy may be aware, any aspirations or proposals in relation to integrated land use and public transport in Counties Laois and Offaly are set out in their respective County Development Plans. As Minister of Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding of public transport. The operation, maintenance and renewal of the rail network and stations on the network,...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...our time delivering a future broadcasting funding mechanism to deal with one of the biggest challenges of our time, which is the misinformation and disinformation that is widespread across the land and across the world. We have to deliver that before the summer recess, as we have all agreed. We have to deliver what the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has set in train, that is, a way of...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Government, knowing when was the time for a deal and what that deal would be, as something to be recognised. Similarly, the critical moment early in 2020 when fear about Covid was so strong in the land, his words to reassure people showed real leadership. That record will travel with you whatever you do next. As the Tánaiste said, I am absolutely convinced that you will continue to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...publication/c8749-offshore-wind-delivery-taskf orce/ The Taskforce has met fourteen times. In addition, the Taskforce has held sessions with the offshore wind industry, represented by Wind Energy Ireland (WEI) and Marine Renewables Industry Association (MRIA to exchange updates on the latest policy and industry developments. The Taskforce published its key actions for 2023 in March 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Ireland is committed to achieving a 51% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 2018 levels, and climate neutrality by no later than 2050. These objectives are set out in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021, and are legally binding. Successive annual Climate Action Plans, required under the Climate Act, set out the policies, measures and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Licences (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Department have no plans to change the rules in relation to driver licensing for tractors. The current licence category, W, will continue to be the licence category that covers work vehicles and land tractors. Agricultural vehicles are any power-driven vehicles running on wheels or tracks, having at least two axles, the principal function of which lies in their tractive power, which are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...in the city over the short, medium and longer term. This type of approach is exactly the type of long-term planning needed to ensure good transport infrastructure delivery and integration with land-use planning.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...system. Electricity storage systems increase the volume of renewable electricity on the grid as well as providing grid efficiency functions. Electricity storage systems in this way support Ireland’s legally binding greenhouse gas emissions reductions, as set out in the latest iteration of the Climate Action Plan. My Department is developing an electricity storage policy...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...of Education Representation from the Regional Assemblies Representation from the County and City Management Association (CCMA) National Transport Authority Transport Infrastructure Ireland My Department also engaged extensively with a number of other departments including the Department of Health, the Department of Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Department...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...of it. Anyone of a certain age can notice the difference and can see it happening in our own country. The personification of it for me was last summer when I was out on a kayak in the west of Ireland. I saw two trawlers follow the coast. They were inshore, hugging the coast, with a ginormous net scooping up every single minnow and sprat and every bit of wildlife and natural systems....

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The timelines are roughly similar. To go back to what the Minister of State said, this review of land is not to tell an individual farmer or forester this is what they must do or else. It is to try to get an assessment of what is happening and to try to make sure we align our incentives with rural development, the future of farming and the protection of the natural world and system. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...right. HVO comes from a variety of different sources such as waste oil from the restaurant or other industries but in relatively small volumes. The international trade volume causes concern about land use, so that too is limited. Last week I was in County Meath and met a number of producers who are currently using a lot of tallow and other product that they convert into HVO. That is an...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2021 commits Ireland to a climate neutral economy no later than 2050 and a reduction in emissions of 51% by 2030. Following the process set out in the Act, the agriculture sector has been set the target of a 10% reduction in emissions by 2025 and a 25% reduction by 2030. Responsibility for meeting this sectoral target sits with the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) performs the role of inventories and projections agency in respect of greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland and is responsible for preparing Ireland’s annual National Inventory Report (NIR) and periodic projections submissions in accordance with EU and international requirements. In relation to inventories and projections reporting, domestic...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...will have an impact on that. In the first instance, it is up to Fingal County Council, and an Bord Pleanála if called upon, to assess the cap. My expectation is that their assessment would be based on land transport issues rather than aviation or the national policy. I hear the Deputy's concern. I do not think the cap materially impacts on things one way or the other. There is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: .... I say that having looked at and analysed it at length, along with other international colleagues. There is only a limited supply of HVO available in the world and we have to be careful of the land use implications if we rely on it further. That HVO is going to be needed in transport because we do not have alternatives. In areas like aviation, we are going to have to switch to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...both carbon capture through technologies that allow for the long-term geological storage of carbon (Carbon Capture and Storage, or CCS), and carbon sequestration into biomass and soil through land management, or ‘carbon farming’. The Climate Action Plan recognises the importance of CCS as a developing means of mitigating emissions from hard to abate activities. Several...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...half the homes in the country if we really went for district heating at scale. Other options including biomethane can be developed as a heat energy source that is sustainable. We can manage the land use implications of it. There is a variety of solutions, as I have outlined. We absolutely must target the houses that are the least efficient and have the highest smoky fuel content....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: .... Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. This is also subject to the Public Spending Code and the necessary statutory approvals. I welcome the new agreement on...