Results 621-640 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Written Answers — Victim Support Services: Victim Support Services (18 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Government is taking steps to support victims of female genital mutilation here; and if this is already the case if she will explain the steps. [34922/07]
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (18 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government is taking steps to support victims of female genital mutilation internationally; and if this is already the case if he will explain the steps. [34922/07]
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the money allocated in budget 2008 to the greener homes scheme and to other conservation schemes for homes and businesses; the level of demand for the schemes in 2007; the level of demand he anticipates in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35784/07]
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: We are back to an issue which caused controversy last year when we did not have sufficient levels of capital set aside for phase one of the demand-led greener homes scheme. At the time, I was extremely unhappy, as were others in Opposition, that to bail out Sustainable Energy Ireland and ensure the bills committed to the greener homes scheme would be paid the Minister needed to find money...
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: I am discussing the greener homes scheme which is the flagship.
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: There is not enough money.
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: The funding has not been doubled.
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: We have not doubled the funding.
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Will the Minister answer the question?
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: I wish to correct the record. The facts are that the budget allocation under the heading of energy conservation grant-in-aid, which I understand includes Sustainable Energy Ireland's capital funding, will increase from â¬54 million last year to â¬63 million this year.
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Will the Minister accept figures from Sustainable Energy Ireland which inform me that next year it has an allocation of â¬26 million and not â¬28 million? Will the Minister accept he previously stated the greener homes scheme cost the State approximately â¬30 million and not â¬28 million in 2007? I am slow to accuse the Minister of massaging the figures to hide an effective cut in the...
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: However, this is what the figures tell us.
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Does the Minister state that the SEI has â¬28 million and not â¬26 million for next year?
- Environmental Policy. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: It has â¬2 million more than it believes it has.
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the money allocated in budget 2008 to the national broadband scheme, MANs phase II, and other information and communications technology schemes his Department may have identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35785/07]
- Telecommunications Services. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: I welcome the increase in funding in this area, which I hope reflects a realisation that we need to front-load money allocated in the national development plan for telecommunication infrastructure. When will the report on the next generation network consultation process be available? Why is the Minister unable to provide additional details on how the budget for next year will be split...
- Research Funding. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: My understanding from the last time we discussed the RTDI programme was that it was being wound down. When â¬6.2 million was reallocated from the energy RTDI programme to the greener homes scheme, with which I did not have a major problem due to the explanation given at the time, I understood this was because most of the research funding in the energy area was to come through Science...
- Electricity Grid. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Is the Minister concerned by private sector plans to build two 350-MW east-west interconnectors between Wales and Ireland? If the plans go ahead as scheduled, one interconnector will be delivered by January 2010 and the other by January 2011. Is he concerned, however, that that would make redundant plans for EirGrid's interconnector which is in the process of going out to tender? In that...
- Electricity Grid. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: That is not the question though.
- Alternative Energy Projects. (19 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: This is potentially an exciting area for Ireland. An allocation of â¬7 million has been set aside for ocean energy. A significant chunk of capital funding will be invested in advancing the wave energy prototype currently floating off the west coast. That is valuable and important work. How much capital investment does the Minister need to support tidal flow energy? My office has been...