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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (17 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. Last November I published a national high speed coverage map for 2016. This...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The National Broadband Plan is delivering high speed broadband to every home and business in Ireland regardless of its location. This is being achieved through a partnership between Government and commercial telecommunications companies. Last November I published a national high speed coverage map for 2016. This map is available at . The map shows Ireland with two colours, BLUE and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Projects (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: This is an operational matter for the consortium involved and not a matter in which I, as Minister, have any function.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: As I outlined to the Deputy in my recent reply to him, my Department has been active in engaging with as many stakeholders as possible during the planning phase for the state intervention under the National Broadband Plan. This includes many community and voluntary groups as well as Local Authorities and various agencies tasked with promoting regional development. All have been very...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Expenditure (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The State only becomes involved in investing in the provision of broadband services in instances of clear market failure such as in the case of the National Broadband Scheme. Such interventions require EU clearance to ensure that the State’s investment does not adversely distort competition. Under the former National Broadband Scheme (NBS), which expired in August 2014, some...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The Government recognises that access to high quality, high speed broadband is important for businesses and households throughout Ireland and is critically aware of the issues raised by IBEC in the Midwest and Kerry region and elsewhere in Ireland. The National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: As we are discussing amendments Nos. 1 and 10 together, I will address both amendments. Section 66C(2) clarifies that section 6A of the Data Protection Act 1988, in other words, the principal Act, which relates to the processing of personal data that is likely to cause damage or distress, which is the issue Deputy Colreavy raises, does not apply where the processing is necessary to undertake...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I repeat the point that I must respectfully disagree with Deputy Colreavy's suggestion that the complaints procedure here would be, to use his phrase, replicating the role of the Data Protection Commissioner. That is not true. It is simply not the case. The Data Protection Commissioner's powers under the principal Act remain and they are considerable. Absolutely nothing is being taken...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I do not understand the Deputy's point.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The answers to the Deputy's question is that, as stated in the Title, this is a Bill entitled An Act to amendment the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011; and to provide for related matters. Section 1 states: "In this Act [the] "Principal Act" means the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011." That is what we are amending here but all of the existing data...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The Deputy is correct that this reflects on some of the discussion we have already had. The complaints procedure set out in the Bill refers to the process that owners or occupiers of property can follow with a postcode-related complaint. The complaints procedure is set out in the postcode contractor's code of practice and, as I indicated earlier, the postcode contractor has consulted the...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: Yes. It is on our website and was put there some time ago.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: Yes, it is the privacy impact assessment that I directed should take place. There is no statutory requirement to do it but the Deputy is correct in that it is good practice in a development like this.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Media Mergers (18 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 264 and 265 together. As is already on the record of the Dáil, my predecessor Deputy Pat Rabbitte T.D. met with Mr Denis O'Brien in the Department on 27 April 2012. Also present at the meeting were Minister Rabbitte's special advisor and the then Secretary General. The meeting was requested by Communicorp to discuss the media merger provisions of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (23 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos 628 and 632 together. Following on the Dáil Éireann debate on the 9thof July 2013 on the May 2012 Report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Wood Mackenzie, a UK based international advisory services company specializing in the energy, metals and mining sectors,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (23 Jun 2015)

Alex White: ​I propose to take Question Nos 629 to 631, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (23 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The six point action plan by the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) aligns with this Government’s consistent message that a strong, modern and commercially viable post office network, that is responsive to changing consumer choices, is essential for urban and rural communities alike.I established the Post Office Network Business Development Group earlier this year, on which the IPU...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (23 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 635 and 636 together. My Department has not received funding from the National Lottery Beneficiary Fund.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (23 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The Government recognises that access to high quality, high speed broadband is important for businesses and households throughout Ireland and is critically aware of the issues raised by IBEC in relation to the Midlands. The National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Grant Payments (23 Jun 2015)

Alex White: The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) administers the Better Energy Warmer Homes scheme on behalf of my Department. I have no function in relation to individual grant applications. Queries in relation to individual applications are an operational matter for the SEAI and a dedicated hotline can be reached at 1800 250 204. In addition, the SEAI has established a specific email...