27. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings and discussions he had with his counterparts at the recent European Council meeting. [45007/18]
615. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of affordable housing units to be built that will be for purchase; and the number that will be affordable cost-rental properties for rent in view of the comments made by the Minister of State with special responsibility for local government and electoral reform during a Topical Issue debate on 24 October 2018 (details supplied). [46664/18]
614. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the decision making process from inception to delivery for the development by public-private partnership of new housing in instances (details supplied); and the decisions taken by him, the local housing authority chief executive or his officials and by the elected councillors. [46663/18]
613. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if finance (details supplied) is available for Dublin City Council to develop the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ, fully without entering into a public-private development partnership. [46662/18]
299. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the necessary legal provisions are in place to enable local authorities approaching the development of large land banks such as Poolbeg and Ballymastone to provide cost rental housing on those lands in view of the support of Dáil Éireann for cost rental housing expressed in the approval of the motion of 6 March 2018 and his statement that cost rental is a key part of housing strategy. [46294/18]
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Coimisiún Náisiúnta um Thrasdul Cóir or, in the English language, the National Just Transition Commission to oversee the bringing together of workers, communities, employers and government in social dialogue to drive the plans, policies and investments needed for a fair transformation to a low-carbon economy; to require the preparation, by certain prescribed bodies, of just transition plans; to provide for the conferral of other functions on the said body; to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
1204. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the effort he has made to engage with and consult local citizens and political parties with regard to arrangements and powers for directly elected mayors in Cork and other cities on which it has been indicated plebiscites will be held in June 2019. [45578/18]
1203. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans with regard to arrangements and powers for directly elected mayors in Cork and other cities on which it has been indicated there will be plebiscites held in June 2019. [45577/18]
1202. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has received the report into potential arrangements and powers for directly elected mayors in Cork and other cities; and if so, if he will publish same. [45576/18]
982. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she has taken to publish both new play and recreation policies since the 2016 review of the National Play Policy 2004-2008 and the national recreation policy published in 2007 was completed in October 2016; the stage the development of these new policies are at; when the new policies will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45575/18]
660. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health the way in which interested parties including voluntary organisations in County Galway would be enabled to make an independent input into the proposed sale of the land at Merlin Park Hospital to the HSE officials that will make the final decision into the proposed sale. [45382/18]
659. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health if the internal audit conducted by the HSE into the sale of the land at Merlin Park Hospital recommended or demanded that the proposed sale of land could not proceed unless the planning permission granted by Galway City Council was confirmed by An Bord Pleanála. [45381/18]
658. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health if a new valuation of the land at Merlin Park Hospital was recommended or demanded by the internal audit; and when the new valuation will be released. [45380/18]
657. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health if a business case covering the proposed sale of the land at Merlin Park Hospital was recommended or demanded by the internal audit; and when the business case will be completed and released. [45379/18]
656. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health if he will release the outcome of the internal audit into the proposed sale of 14.2 acres of HSE land at Merlin Park Hospital to a hospice (details supplied). [45378/18]
655. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health if an internal audit was carried out by HSE into the proposed sale of 14.2 acres of HSE land at Merlin Park Hospital to a hospice (details supplied). [45377/18]
97. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role he is taking with regard to the review of the MetroLink project on the south side of the city; and if he has considered proposals for continuing the tunnel boring machine south of the Charlemont Street stop and amending the preferred route alignment to allow for such a development. [45642/18]
85. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the change in greenhouse gas emissions expected to result from each of the road projects included in the National Development Plan 2018-2027. [45641/18]
102. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance the status of the establishment of the stakeholder forum on foot of the conclusions of the public banking investigation report; when a tender for the independent evaluation of the local public banking concept will issue; if the stakeholder forum will be involved in the selection of the external evaluator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44524/18]
5. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to facilitate private businesses in transitioning to a low-carbon and more sustainable business model. [43004/18]
650. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to remove the requirement for planning permission for residential solar photo-voltaic installations (details supplied). [41962/18]
545. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the cost of an NC5 non-batch application will be removed; if the requirement for a planning application in order to make the application will be removed; and the guidelines and guidance on the costs of making the connection. [41963/18]
544. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if public health benefits are one of the criteria to be used in assessing applications under the climate action fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41961/18]
543. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the organisations which were notified of the climate action fund by letter or email. [41960/18]
542. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if State-owned companies such as Bord na Móna and Coillte which hold large landbanks of degraded peatland from which emissions could be cost effectively abated are eligible to apply to the climate action fund; and if so, if they were notified of the fund. [41959/18]
541. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received to the climate action fund by the deadline of 1 October 2018. [41958/18]
540. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the advisory board for the climate action fund has been established; and if so, the members of same. [41957/18]
390. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health if the drug osimertinib will be made available to persons with EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer; the cost-benefit analysis undertaken regarding the provision of the drug; and the reason it is not available here in view of the fact that it is widely available across the EU. [41956/18]
173. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance if the budget €50,000 limit on benefit-in-kind exemption for electric vehicles will apply retrospectively to vehicles purchased prior to budget day. [42369/18]
16. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland is supporting proposals for the EU to commit, in the context of forthcoming COP24 in Katowice, to increasing the commitments in its nationally determined contribution to bring it in line with the 1.5°C target in the Paris Agreement. [41106/18]
57. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, further to the increased direct funding to UNRWA already announced, he will also increase funding to grassroots and community groups. [40529/18]
40. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with the United States of America Administration in regard to the cancellation of President Trump's visit. [37581/18]
35. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the invocation of the Article 7 procedure following the Sargentini report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40102/18]
641. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to issue guidelines, directions or circular letters to ensure market places are provided and maintained; if his attention has been drawn to the recent closure of six weekend markets (details supplied) in summer 2018 in Dublin city centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40096/18]
359. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing combined oral and other contraceptive options such as the coil, implant, injection and vaginal ring free of charge on prescription; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39517/18]
9. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Taoiseach if he has met religious leaders in Ireland recently; and his plans for managing the transition to a new relationship between religion, religious institutions and the State. [37882/18]
250. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of revenue which would be raised if the vacant site levy was applied to all sites above 100 m and below 500 sq m; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39295/18]
236. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost of removing the means-test for maintenance payments, particularly for housing assistance payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39286/18]
232. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will expand the Creative Ireland social welfare pilot beyond writers and visual art artists to include the performing artists and makers (details supplied); the estimated cost of extending the scheme to these artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39294/18]
231. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the fuel allowance for vulnerable households to remove the extra costs of increasing the carbon tax to €20 and €30 per tonne, respectively; the estimated cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39287/18]
220. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the means-test for maintenance payments, particularly for rent allowance payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39286/18]
219. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of allowing lone parents in employment whose children are aged between seven and 14 years of age to receive both the jobseeker's transition payment and working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39312/18]
218. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the threshold for one-parent family payment and jobseeker's transition payment to an increased limit of €500 per week with a €50 increase for each additional child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39311/18]
217. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the jobseeker's transitional payment until the youngest child is 18 years of age and until a child finishes secondary school, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39310/18]
216. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the one-parent family payment and jobseeker's transition payment to €161 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39308/18]
215. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing universal child benefit by €5. [39307/18]
214. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the weekly allowance for children living in direct provision to the current rate for a qualified child including a €5 increase for over 12's and the adult weekly allowance to €38.80 as recommended by the working group on the protection process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39306/18]
213. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending statutory paid maternity and paternity leave to a year, both shared and unshared; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39304/18]
212. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of making child benefit payable to families with children over 18 years of age who are enrolled in secondary school reflecting the higher educational costs for families with adolescents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39291/18]