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Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Through the Chair and on a point of order, to save the Deputy, I will just protect my corner first and then let him protect his. My understanding is that a priority question cannot be grouped. We are entitled to our time. If the Deputy has a similar question he is entitled to pursue it with the Minister. I have been around the House a while and I may be wrong on this, which is why I seek...

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Can I propose a suspension of the House until we examine the facts?

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Will I get my final round as well?

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Will the Minister be straight with the House? I am not suggesting that the Minister is not normally but I think he could on this occasion. He speaks about the money and what it will do. There is a series of events that will have to take place, and the provision of ten digital gateways on a pilot basis will not use up €30 million. The Minister should come clean and talk about the...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implementation status of the national broadband plan; and the date by which the contract for the State intervention area will be awarded. [49412/17]

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The regular update from the Minister to this House relates to where we are at in the procurement process of the national broadband plan. He will be well aware that the programme for Government, to which he is a signatory, and of which he is a significant beneficiary as a Minister, sets out a commitment to have an agreement in place to sign off with a contractor for the project in June 2017....

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister's response is as ridiculous as if José Mourinho, when asked about the performance of Manchester United, were to respond by telling us how Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool are doing. I asked the Minister to outline on numerous occasions in this House where the Government is at in respect of the national broadband plan in providing high-speed broadband to those 542,000...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: We thought it would be done.

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I do not know if the Minister's constituency office is as inundated as is mine with people who are concerned about the issue. I am sure it is but I do not intend to offer such a solution to anybody. I refer in particular to families where children come home at the weekend from college or with secondary schoolchildren. I do not want to say that they should toddle off to the community centre...

Priority Questions: Mobile Telephony Services (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister was well able to take the credit for SIRO and Eir and so on.

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I have no objection to them being taken together.

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures his department will take to address the lack of availability and poor management of Ireland's electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49105/17]

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister is well aware of the importance of getting a shift in the way in which people use private vehicles. In particular, we need to move away from the burning of fossil fuels and electric vehicles would seem to be an appropriate method of addressing our climate change obligations and improving citizens' behaviour in that regard. I ask the Minister to give us some understanding of how...

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The budget did little to support a greater uptake of electric vehicles. The elimination of benefit-in-kind on a one year basis is a disincentive. Companies, as the Minister knows, seek certainty around their asset base and how they are taxed and very few will invest if it is just for one year. The Minister could nearly substitute the words "electric vehicle" for "broadband" in what he...

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I support everything that my colleague, Deputy Stanley, said about home parking. We do not need pilot projects for a couple of aspects, only common sense. People need to be able to charge at home and where they go ultimately. The majority of trips are to work or shopping centres. People park in the environs of their workplaces or public or private car parks. The Department and the...

Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Grid access is needed for that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address the fact that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has refused to play a role in the Government's monitoring of waste collection charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he will take to increase Ireland's renewable energy stock; the date by which a renewable energy support scheme will be launched here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49106/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason his Department continues to primarily fund shallow retrofits for homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49104/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Implementation (21 Nov 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of studies that his Department has commissioned or conducted into the impacts of carbon taxes. [48754/17]