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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan Implementation (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: My Department recognises the value of each Local Authority having a local digital strategy in place in order to fully benefit from the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan. To this end, my Department has provided information and guidance to each Local Authority to develop local digital strategies, and has facilitated the provision of expert consultancy to assist with strategy development....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: The Digital Innovation Programme was launched in 2018. The purpose of the programme is to encourage Local Authorities to support digital development in their areas. Projects must promote, support, or otherwise advance at least one of the pillars outlined in the scheme criteria and must show the potential for public benefit. Applications are required to meet certain criteria that include...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Mobile Telephony Services (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: The Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce was established in July 2016 to examine broadband and mobile phone coverage deficits in Ireland and identify tangible actions to improve the quality of these services. The Taskforce Report was published in December 2016, and included 40 actions to alleviate barriers to mobile phone reception and broadband access. An Implementation Group was...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector Funding (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: My Department’s Community and Voluntary Supports and Programmes provide a cohesive framework of support for the community and voluntary sector. This programme supports 21 Volunteer Centres, 8 Volunteer Information Services in areas which do not currently have a full-time Volunteer Centre, as well as a number of national organisations such as Volunteer Ireland and Young Social...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Scheme to Support National Organisations (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: The Scheme to Support National Organisations (SSNO) has a primary focus on the provision of core funding to national organisations that demonstrate good governance and deliver services and supports that have a focus on one or more of the following: addressing poverty, social exclusion and promoting equality. The scheme provides multiannual core funding to national organisations, and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Participation Networks (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: Since 2015, current funding of up to €50,000 per annum has been allocated by my Department in respect of each PPN, provided this was supplemented by a minimum of €30,000 per annum from each local authority’s own resources. This funding is to be used for the cost of the employment of a Resource Worker, and ongoing operational costs such as office accommodation and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: The Charities Regulator was established on October 14, 2014. Audited financial statements for the first period were produced for the 14 months to December 2015, in accordance with Section 30(2) of the Charities Act 2009. Annual financial statements were produced thereafter. The accounts for 2018 are not yet available. 2014 14 months to Dec 2015 12 months to Dec 2016 12 months to Dec 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: The Charities Regulatory Authority was established in October 2014 pursuant to the Charities Act 2009. The key functions of the Regulator are to establish and maintain a public register of charitable organisations operating in Ireland and ensure their compliance with the Charities Acts. My Department has overall policy responsibility for the Charities Regulator. However, the Authority is...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: Section 75 (1) of the Charities Act 2009 provides for the establishment of the Charities Appeal Tribunal. The role of the Charity Appeals Tribunal is to hear and adjudicate on appeals against certain decisions of the Charities Regulatory Authority (the ‘Charities Regulator’). The Rules for the Charities Appeals Tribunal were made under the Charity Appeals Tribunal (Charities...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund Grants (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Canney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1024 and 1025 together. The 2018 Dormant Accounts Action Plan, which was published in July, approved funding of up to €39.7 million for 45 different measures across ten different Government Departments. In line with the provisions of the Dormant Accounts Acts, the measures identified in the Action Plan target social, economic and educational...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Licences (19 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 464 and 465 together. Each of Ireland's 147 salmon rivers, river sections and estuaries has a genetically distinct salmon stock. Salmon stocks are, therefore, managed on an individual river basis with each river having a Conservation Limit (CL) which is scientifically assessed on an annual basis by the independent Standing Scientific Committee for Salmon....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (19 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: With regard to transfers to and from the Dormant Accounts Fund for 2018, the most recent information available to me from the NTMA covers the period to the end of November 2018. At that point €68.75 million had transferred into the fund from dormant accounts within relevant financial institutions for 2018. A total of €20.35 million had been reclaimed from the fund. Therefore,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: Inland Fisheries Ireland, IFI, is the State agency responsible for the conservation, protection, management and development of Ireland’s inland fisheries and sea angling resources. It manages salmon stocks on an individual river basis as each of Ireland’s 147 salmon rivers, including river sections and estuaries, has its own genetically unique stock of salmon. It is supported...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: I do not question the local knowledge of the Deputy or the fishermen. I have been approached by several local Deputies on the matter. There are issues the Deputy has raised about the science or the counters with which we must deal. However, the public consultation process has closed. I presume strong submissions were made on behalf of the anglers to whom the Deputy has referred on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Waste (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: To give the Deputy some figures, according to the EPA, 60% of food waste is avoidable waste, such as leftovers and gone-off fruit and vegetables, 20% is potentially avoidable, such as bread crusts and potato skins, and 20% is unavoidable, such as chicken bones and fruit and vegetable peelings. We need to educate in this regard. I note the following initiatives. Stop Food Waste, which is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Waste (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: Globally, one third of all food produced for human consumption is estimated to be wasted each year. Per household, food waste is thought to cost €700 per annum in Ireland. Our ambition is to halve that by 2030. In Ireland, we waste close to 1 million tonnes of food every year. About a third of that arises in retail and catering, with a somewhat smaller share of waste accounted for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Waste (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: The agreements in place at the moment are effective. We have to keep monitoring them. When I visited the FoodCloud facility here in Dublin and saw the amount of food that is distributed from there every day, it opened my eyes to the amount of food that would otherwise be thrown in the bin. We will also be changing thinking, through education in both national and secondary schools, about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electricity Generation (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: The other thing I want to say is that communities and small businesses are also being supported through schemes led by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland like the sustainable energy communities scheme and the better energy community scheme. They are for smaller communities like the communities Deputy Moynihan is talking about and the communities I know as well. Communities can...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: The national broadband plan aims to ensure that every home, school and business in Ireland, regardless of how remote or rural, has access to high-speed broadband. This is being achieved through a combination of commercial investment throughout Ireland and State intervention in those mostly rural areas where commercial operators acting alone are unlikely to invest. Since December 2015 the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Canney: As a Deputy from a rural part of the country, I understand the frustrations. Everyone accepts that broadband is essential, just like water, electricity and sewerage. Broadband is now essential in every home. The Government commitment is to provide broadband to every house. The tender process is coming to a conclusion. The final evaluation is taking place. It will be concluded in the...