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Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: What has Fine Gael done?

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I was trying to be helpful.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy should get on with the Bill and not put the taxpayer——

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is at sixes and sevens.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I will remind the Deputy——

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Bill is being discussed by the committee but the Deputies do not want to hear the answers.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: Make it to the committee tomorrow.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: We will discuss the Bill tomorrow at the committee meeting. Deputy Perry is in the pocket of the fishing industry. He is the mouth of the fishermen.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is correct. It will not.

Written Answers — Metropolitan Area Networks: Metropolitan Area Networks (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The metropolitan area networks are interconnected with two networks for the supply of backhaul. ESBT has a 1300-km network. BT Ireland installed 1,900 km of cable on CIE's track network. The management services entity, eNet, which holds the concession to manage, maintain and operate metropolitan area networks on behalf of the Irish Government for a period of 15 years, recently announced...

Written Answers — Natural Gas Grid: Natural Gas Grid (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The regulation of the gas market is delegated to the Commission for Energy Regulation, CER, under the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002. It is open to any intending supplier of gas to any town to apply to the CER for consent to lay the necessary pipe work, and for a licence to supply natural gas. The CER must be satisfied that a proposal to extend the natural gas distribution network is an...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The priority issues to be addressed by the legislative proposals that will form the basis of a new broadcasting Bill are as follows: the establishment of a single content regulator for commercial, community and public service broadcasters; the establishment of RTE as a company under the Companies Acts 1963 to 2003; the provision of a statutory mechanism for future adjustments to the level of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: It is not and was not the function of the TAG to have input into the Advantica report. That said, the Geological Survey of Ireland, where one of the members of the TAG is employed, furnished to Advantica specific information relating to landslides to enable it complete its investigation into pipeline safety in peat. The role of the TAG was to select world-class gas safety consultants to...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The EU Commission has been informed of certain information that has come to the attention of the Irish authorities in regard to undeclared landings by Irish fishing vessels. A meeting has been requested with Commissioner Borg to advise on the information that has been received and on the actions taken and planned by the Irish authorities to address the matters arising.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I have no function in the matter raised by the Deputy. The issue of pension entitlements to retired company employees is a matter for the company in question.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The regulations in question were drafted and approved in the Office of the Attorney General before signature by my predecessor. As the Deputy will see from the legislative proposals for the Electronic Communications (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, which are available on my Department's website at www.dcmnr.ie, it is proposed to provide for a civil administrative fines regime in relation to...

Written Answers — Metropolitan Area Networks: Metropolitan Area Networks (7 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The provision of telecommunications services, including broadband, is a matter in the first instance for the fully liberalised private sector, regulated by Comreg, the independent Commission for Communications Regulation. The Government is addressing the infrastructure deficit by building high-speed open access metropolitan area networks, MANs, in 120 towns and cities nationwide, on a phased...

Leaders' Questions. (8 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: We will.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: We will.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy should listen to the answer.