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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Naughten, on his elevation to the position of Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. I also congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, as it is the first opportunity I have had to address him as Minister of State. I wish both Ministers well in their jobs. My question is very straightforward. I ask that the solar power and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. Under the public service obligation, PSO, the current projection is that nearly 3,000 MW of renewable energy will receive €335 million in support in 2016-2017 while only 250 MW of fossil fuel will receive €140 million. The fossil fuel industry benefitted from €386 million in subsidies in 2015. That includes the PSO and the fuel...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: In regard to the PSO for the power stations, I recognise that reality. Until such time as we can supply them with biomass we have what we have. On the issue of the cost of solar, some people in the industry would question it. Other countries have more sunshine than Ireland and do not need sophisticated systems to get the benefit. We do have substantial sunshine and we have substantial...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: It is a good idea.

Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has estimated the future capital value of the national broadband network by 2043. [21518/16]

Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: The question relates to the roll-out of the national broadband plan. The establishment of a national broadband network will be welcomed in my constituency, which covers Laois and part of south County Kildare, and every corner of the State. The question asks what will be the value of the network.

Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: The national broadband plan is a major undertaking which has been compared with rural electrification. It will certainly be as important as rural electrification from a social and economic point of view. As a representative of a rural constituency, the Minister will be aware that the lack of broadband has retarded social and economic development in rural areas. While Sinn Féin wants...

Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: The key issues are the need to roll out a national broadband network and to secure value for money for service users and the taxpayers who will provide the funding for the plan. Control and efficiency are the key pillars on which the plan must be built if it is to succeed. On the last mile - I cannot think of a better way to describe it - the private sector will own the mains...

Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: At least one major company has serious concerns about the private sector controlling and owning the mains channels. Who will own the last mile, in other words, the hard to reach part for which the State will pay? Who will own that cable?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bord na Móna (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to request Bord na Móna to produce a plan for the future use of the natural resources that it owns at the Coolnamona group of bogs in County Laois and at Kilberry in south County Kildare. [21521/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for connecting community energy projects into the national grid. [21519/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Media Mergers (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has concerns regarding News Corporation's purchase of Wireless Group radio stations; and his response to the Broadcast Authority of Ireland report on ownership and control of media businesses in Ireland. [21517/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: 94. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his progress in implementing the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. [21520/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if he has commissioned a trauma steering group to examine the 29 emergency departments here, and if this group is now recommending the closure of the emergency departments in Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise in County Laois and in Naas General Hospital in County Kildare. [21901/16]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Energy Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 2:In page 7, to delete lines 30 to 41 and substitute the following:" 'major sanction' means a direction to a specified body that the specified body pay a sum, as specified in the direction, but not exceeding 12 per cent of the turnover of the specified body, to the Commission by way of a financial penalty for improper conduct, by the specified body, specified in the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Energy Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: It is a pity that we are bound by what Big Brother in Brussels decrees. While I disagree with the decision the British took a couple of weeks ago to cut themselves off from Europe, I can see why millions of British citizens voted the way they did. That is the type of reply, with no disrespect to the Minister, that drives people crazy. It drives the public mad, if any member of the public...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Energy Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: The Minister said that if it goes over 10%, it is likely to go into the criminal domain. He has got his legal advice. I did not draft that amendment on my own. I took legal advice from a barrister.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Energy Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Energy Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: I am pressing the amendment.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Energy Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Brian Stanley: The future will be thousands of micro-generators along with some of the bigger ones. That is the reality as we move away from the use of fossil fuels. At present, a queue of entities are waiting to get onto the national grid but they cannot get onto it. Methane gas is being flared, burnt off and going into the atmosphere from landfill sites because it cannot be used. I fail to see, and...