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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure for a divorced person to revert to their original surname; the documentary evidence that is required; and if there is a consistent approach to the matter across all public bodies. [35166/22]

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...I cannot give the Deputy an answer as to why any particular takeover was approved but the reasons will be on record as each case will have gone through the process that has been put in place. I will revert to the Deputy on broadband for Tipperary.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...because we want gas to continue to be explored in our waters, just as we want offshore wind facilities to be developed in our waters, and the policy references both measures. I will have to revert to the Deputy with a date on the NECP, which is a work in progress. Emission reduction pathways for each sector are already set out in the climate plan. The issue is that if there is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...matter. I presume it is tied up with the licence issued by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to the relevant local station. I do not know what is the process for amending a licence. I will revert to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Obligation Levy (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...accruing from biodiversity provision, water quality, and increased carbon storage and sequestration. The proposed scheme is not a tax on carbon. It is a scheme to support biodiversity and to ensure the bogs revert to their natural state as the most efficient carbon stores.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ..., Climate Action and Environment is considering the recent report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and the Environment in relation to the National Broadband Plan (NBP) and will revert to the Government shortly in relation to the recommendations in the Committee report; - the advice of the Attorney General is that it is not legally possible to change the...

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...asset throughout and there would only be a concession for five years. A commercial stimulus, gap-funded model was also considered, as was a concessionaire agreement, under which ownership would revert to the State after 25 years. The then Minister ruled out a public utility, a State-owned asset which would be owned throughout the process, and narrowed down the options to either the...

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...Ireland would not have a high depreciation value. The only value will be in the business that will have been built. That is why ComReg was always of the view that there should not be an asset reverting to the State that had been run into the ground, as will be the case. What is needed is an asset that will be kept up to a standard because the company will have a continuing interest in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (11 Jul 2019)

Richard Bruton: Further to the Question No. 571 of 2 July 2019, I can confirm that my Department and its NBP advisers are in the process of concluding their analysis of the information provided by eir and will revert to me shortly in that regard. I would note that my Department appeared before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment on 3 July and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies Data (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...in electricity distribution and transmission, networks upgrades, extensions, operations or routine maintenance, are primarily a matter for the Board and management of ESB, I have requested ESB to revert to the Deputy directly with the historical information sought, where available. The most up-to-date financial information is contained in ESB Annual Report and Accounts 2018 which is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Bruton: I was not aware of this gap to which the Deputy refers. I will follow up and revert to him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...it accepted or rejected, this is the approach that we take. Without giving any notice on Leaders’ Questions, the Deputy cannot expect me to have consulted other Cabinet members so that I might revert to the House with a collective view on how a particular Bill will be handled. That is not a reasonable expectation. Like any other Deputy's proposal, Deputy Coppinger's must be...

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (16 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...in its service. That is the backdrop to why the ownership model was chosen. This company cannot just switch off the system and walk away because if it fails to complete it, the system will revert to the State. At that point, we will have what we paid for. If it is halfway through, half of all of the homes will be passed and the connections that have taken it up will be made. We will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: ..., the State chose this approach of not seeking to own it at the end. Rather than trying to install the poles, ducts and so on, it is more cost-effective to have that fibre erected on private infrastructure, which is the dominant format now delivering service. Not having it revert to the State by year 25 creates an incentive for the investor to continue to invest in upgrading that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...would acquire the network. If the company fails at various checkpoints, either by failing the viability test or by failing the roll-out test, the State can become the owner and it would effectively revert to the State in the event of ownership. The Deputy made the point that the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform pointed out that at different points...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: Under the contract, if the bidder abandons or is unable to complete the project, the asset reverts to the State, so the State will own the asset in that situation. At that point should that happen, the State will have only paid for the fibre that has been rolled out at that point. We pay in arrears only on performance. At that point, should that occur we will have the value of the fibre...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...to answer them. If the company cannot complete this - the asset - we will only have paid for whatever has been rolled out at that point. Those lines that have been rolled out at that point will revert to the State. We will have possession of the lines that have been rolled out. I can assure Deputy Doherty that no capital project will be displaced by this. The Minister has indicated...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: Let me say one last thing. The Deputy appears to favour the concession model, whereby this would revert to the State at the end of the period. In terms of the assessment of the deliverability of this project, that was assessed as being a far greater risk than the model we are now delivering.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Bruton: This is Questions on Promised Legislation and, obviously, I do not have a briefing on the details. I will seek to assess where the matter stands and then revert to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...broadband is available.  However, a number of premises in the estate itself are not yet indicated as having been passed. Officials in my Department will raise a query with eir in order to seek further information and will revert to the Deputy.