Results 8,401-8,420 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postal Services (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The purpose of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2015 is to put in place a statutory data protection framework for postcodes to ensure that the public interest is satisfied in the undertaking of legitimate postcode activities. The exercise of these activities is fundamental to the establishment and implementation of postcodes and includes the development,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Charges (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: enet acts as the Management Services Entity (MSE) for the State-owned Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs). The MANs consist of fibre rings around 88 towns across Ireland. The MANs are now used by over 60 licensed telecoms operators to provide services in those towns. It is estimated that in excess of 600,000 users are benefiting directly from services provided through the MANs. The MANs have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Biofuel Obligation Scheme (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The 2009 Renewable Energy Directive sets all Member States a binding target that at least 10% of the energy used in the transport sector must come from renewable sources by 2020. Ireland aims to meet this target mainly through the use of sustainable biofuels with electric vehicles also making a contribution. In this regard, biofuels are readily available in Ireland and regulations on fuel...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This will be achieved through a combination of commercial investments and a State led intervention in areas where commercial services will not be provided. The commercial telecommunications sector is currently investing approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This will be achieved through a combination of commercial investments and a State led intervention in areas where commercial services will not be provided.The commercial telecommunications sector is currently investing approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The latest advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) in 2014 states that while the annual recruitment of juvenile eels (glass eels - elvers) to Europe has increased over the last 3 years from 5% to 12% of historic levels, recruitment is still well below the reference levels of 1960-1979, there is no change in the status of the eel as being critically...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I have received no communication from Leitrim County Council in the matter referred to. As for the appointment of CDM Smith, and the involvement of that company in the multi-agency trans-boundary programme of research commissioned by the EPA on the potential impacts on the environment and human health from Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction projects, I would like to comment as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licence Fee Collection (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: As the Deputy will be aware, the Government gave approval for the preparation of legislation to enable the TV Licence Collecting Agent (currently An Post) to access the subscription data held by TV service providers, including Sky and UPC. The legislation will be designed to allow the Collecting Agent to have access to the information solely for its statutory functions in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This will be achieved through a combination of commercial investments and a State led intervention in areas where commercial services will not be provided. The commercial telecommunications sector is currently investing approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The Government's National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This will be achieved through a combination of commercial investments and a State led intervention in areas where commercial services will not be provided. The commercial telecommunications sector is currently investing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This will be achieved through a combination of commercial investments and a State led intervention in areas where commercial services will not be provided. The commercial telecommunications sector is currently investing approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Exports (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: Intensive discussions took place in 2013 and 2014 between my Department and the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK to establish if it would be possible to export renewable energy in order to allow the UK meet its 2020 renewable energy target. Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Energy Cooperation with the UK Government in January 2013, a joint programme of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Media Mergers (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: On 9 June 2015 I published the finalised Guidelines on Media Mergers and the associated Notification Form in accordance with Section 28L of the Competition Act 2002 as amended by the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014. The draft Guidelines were developed by my Department working with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Sea Angling Sector (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has extensive interaction with the sea angling sector both in the terms of supporting the relevant sea angling Federations and also working directly with providers such as Chartered Skippers. In addition, IFI is working with many local authorities and has communicated with all authorities in relation to their Local Economic and Community Plan to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector Regulation (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: Part 7 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 provides for public service broadcasting in Ireland and the provisions relating to the public service broadcasting corporations, RTÉ and TG4, including their principal objects. These objects provide the companies’ statutory mandates, including the specific objective of providing national, free-to-air public service broadcasting services, as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: It is Government policy that An Post remains a strong and viable company, in a position to provide a high quality postal service and maintain a nationwide network of customer focused post offices in the community. I established the post office network business development group earlier this year. The terms of reference for the group are to examine the potential from existing and new...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: At the outset, I would like to confirm again that no exploration involving hydraulic fracking has been authorised in this jurisdiction and I can also confirm, as I have done on numerous occasions, that no decision will be made on any proposal for the use of hydraulic fracturing in exploration drilling as part of an unconventional gas exploration programme, until there has been time to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Charge (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The Programme for Government commits to examining the role and collection of the TV licence fee in light of existing and projected convergence of technologies and to transforming the TV licence into a household based Public Service Broadcasting Charge to be applied to all eligible households and applicable businesses, regardless of the device used to access content or services. In the context...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I refer to the reply to Question No. [22963/15] on today's Order Paper.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Alex White: It is Government policy that An Post remains a strong and viable company, in a position to provide a high quality postal service and maintain a nationwide network of customer focused post offices in the community. Social welfare payments comprise an important component of post office business irrespective of the size of the office. The Department of Social Protection recently amended a...