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Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The independent analysis in relation to the electricity transmission assets being carried out by Frontier Economics Limited is being finalised and will be submitted to me in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Electric Vehicles: Electric Vehicles (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Electric vehicles will play an increasingly important role in reducing the transport sector's Greenhouse Gas Emissions and in reducing our reliance on imported fossil fuels. There is now very significant global investment under way in research and development in the electrification of transport. The technology is maturing to a point where large scale commercial deployment of electric...

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: An invitation to tender was issued on the 10th May 2010 for consultants to assist in selecting a body to implement and manage the delivery of a working National Postcode System (NPS). These consultants have now been appointed and are working with my Department's Steering Group to introduce a six digit alpha numeric model that is also capable of being refined into a location based code. I...

Written Answers — Energy Efficiency Programmes: Energy Efficiency Programmes (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The table below gives a breakdown of monthly expenditure to date in 2010 on energy efficiency progammes administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). € Warmer Homes Scheme 12,541,000 Public Sector Energy Efficiency 393,000 Industry & Business 1,643,000 Retrofit Programme 121,000 Home Energy Saving 28,720,000 These programmes are directly funded through my...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The REFIT scheme, which guarantees a minimum price for certain classes of renewable electricity generation, is designed to underpin the business case for investors in the renewable generation sector. A key component of the scheme is the requirement for Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) between renewable energy generators and suppliers. The PPAs create certainty for generators and incentivise...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Article 35 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union forbids any quantitative restrictions on exports and all measures having equivalent effect. This Article would prevent Ireland or any Member State from placing any restrictions on the export of electricity whether the power benefits from a feed in tariff or otherwise. Under the terms of the Renewable Energy directive, the...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: A range of international, EU and national analysis underpins the case for support schemes, such as REFIT, for renewable electricity technologies to provide greater certainty for investors thus facilitating the financing of the investments. As set out in Ireland's National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP), it has been estimated by the Commission for Energy Regulation and EirGrid that...

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Liberalisation of the postal services market is required under the third Postal Services Directive by the 31st of December, 2010. The Directive is based on an EU Commission study on the impact on the universal postal service of the full accomplishment of a liberalised postal services market. This study concluded that full market opening is achievable in all Member States. The postal market...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1589 to 1598, inclusive, together. The table below shows the current status of proposals in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes relating to my Department and to Bodies and Agencies under its remit about which the Deputy is inquiring. As the Deputy is aware the Report of the Special Group on Public Service...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The provisions in relation to the submission of the Authority's three-year estimates and expenditure proposals and their publication are set out in section 37 of the Broadcasting Act 2009. In relation to the estimates for the period 2011-2013, which are due to be submitted by the Authority no later than 30 September, I can confirm that these estimates have not yet been received in my...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1601 and 1602 together. Under the terms of the National Broadband Scheme (NBS) contract, 3 is obliged to provide coverage in all of the 1028 Electoral Divisions (EDs) within the NBS area by 23rd October next. I am happy to report that 3 is on track to deliver on this contractual obligation. In relation to the status of the NBS roll-out in Kildare I can...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to spend on mobile communications from 2007 to 2010 is set out below. This includes mobile phones, Blackberrys and modems. Year Total spend € 2007 138,065.46 2008 79,466.94 2009 64,423.46 Jan – June 2010 32,239.45 There are 108 staff within the Department with an official issue mobile device. The contract for the provision of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I can inform the Deputy that the number of persons employed in my Department by grade is as detailed in the table below. There is a further table that details the number of Non Commercial Agencies under the remit of my Department, together with the number of staff employed in each Agency. The grade structure varies across each Agency and is a matter for the Agency. Department of...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: In accordance with Section 32 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002, as amended, the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) shall present its Annual Report and Accounts to me and I shall cause copies of the accounts to be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas. ComReg's annual report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 2009 is currently being examined by my officials and...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I look forward to this opportunity to speak on the statement issued by the Minister for Finance today on the banking crisis. No doubt it is a real crisis. As the Minister for Finance stated this morning, the figures that have been revealed are horrific and numbing in the sense of their scale and their implications for every person in this country. There is deep regret, and rightly, deep...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Unfortunately, I do not have a script. I am speaking extempore. On the argument that we should just let our whole banking system go, we must have regard of a number of points. First, much of our expert advice, for example, from the likes of Professor Patrick Honohan in his report into this banking crisis, stated such an approach would have lead to catastrophic social consequences - massive...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I believe we can recover from our situation.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I am confident we will as a people. The other factor to take into account is that the European and other international institutions at the time had all set their direction against such a course - the experience, it would seem, from the 1930s, having scarred into people's minds in the European Central Bank and elsewhere that such an approach of letting things go merely leads to much wider...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Crucially, such an approach would not have provided what following a NAMA approach has done, namely, a clear, independent, thorough, rigorous and in many ways ruthless assessment of the extent of the problem and the scale of the losses. That will be important when emerging from this situation, because as horrible and difficult as are these losses, I prefer to know what they are rather than...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Eamon Ryan: No, we are one of the worst examples but there are many examples.