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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Jan 2016)

Alex White: I published the The Energy White Paper 'Ireland's Transition to a Low Carbon Energy Future 2015-2030' on 16 December last. The White Paper sets out a high-level framework for Ireland's energy transition to a low carbon economy and society and identifies a range of measures and actions to support this aim. One key measure is the design of a new renewable heat incentive (RHI) support scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Speeds (20 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The Government’s 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Warmer Homes Scheme Data (21 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The priority of the Better Energy Warmer Homes scheme, which is administered on behalf of my Department by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), is to use the limited funds available to the scheme to deliver the largest reductions in energy poverty to the maximum number of homes. To this end, the works that are typically undertaken represent the best balance that can be achieved...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB Networks (21 Jan 2016)

Alex White: This is an operational matter for ESB Networks and not one in which I as Minister have a role or function.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (21 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The Government’s 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (26 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The development of a renewable heat incentive (RHI) is an important action stemming from the draft BioEnergy Strategy, and reaffirmed in the Energy White Paper 'Ireland's Transition to a Low Carbon Energy Future 2015-2030' published in December last. The RHI will be a national renewable support scheme in the heating sector and will be open to participants across the country subject to a range...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (26 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The Government’s 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (26 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The Government’s 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (26 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The Government’s 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Speeds (26 Jan 2016)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 483 and 484 together. The Government strongly supports the importance of high quality Broadband connectivity as an enabling infrastructure for long term economic and social sustainability. The Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Projects (26 Jan 2016)

Alex White: I do not have any plans to commission a book on the history of the post office. However, should the person concerned be interested in pursuing the history of the post office further, the website of An Post has information on books already available on this subject matter. In addition, while the An Post archive collections are not publicly accessible, I can assure the Deputy that An Post...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (26 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The matters referred to by the Deputy are operational in nature and as such are the responsibility of individual State bodies and are not ones in which I, as Minister, have any function.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Staff Retirements (27 Jan 2016)

Alex White: I can confirm that for each of the last four years, there were no cases taken against my Department by civil servants in relation to being retired at age 65. Nor were there any formal objections received to retirement on age grounds.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony (27 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The European Parliament and the Council have adopted Regulation 2015/2120 which was published in the Official Journal of the EU on the 26 November 2015. The Regulation imposes further reductions in the maximum permitted roaming retail charges within the EU with the objective of abolishing such charges from June 2017. As interim measures, the Regulation requires mobile operators to further...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Funding (28 Jan 2016)

Alex White: Total capital expenditure by my Department was €486m in the period 2011 to end 2015. This expenditure is not broken down by county. The most significant component of my Department's capital expenditure is in respect of the Better Energy Homes and Better Energy Warmer Homes schemes which are administered on behalf of my Department by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (28 Jan 2016)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 357 and 358 together. While the precise cost of any shortfall in Ireland's target of 16% has yet to be established, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has estimated that the cost to Ireland may be in the range of €100 million to €150 million for each percentage point Ireland falls short of the overall 16% renewable energy target....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Gas Networks Ireland (28 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The development and expansion of the natural gas network is a commercial matter for Gas Networks Ireland (GNI), the successor of Gaslink, which is mandated under Section 8 of the Gas Act 1976, as amended, to develop and maintain a national system for the supply of natural gas that is both economical and efficient. The Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) is statutorily responsible for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Alex White: UPC Ireland has been rebranded as Virgin Media Ireland. This does not constitute a takeover as, throughout the process, the ultimate owner of the service has continued to be Liberty Global. Concurrent with this rebranding, the MMDS (Multipoint Microwave Distribution Systems) service now operated by Virgin Media, which was introduced in Ireland in the early 1990s to provide multi-channel...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Jan 2016)

Alex White: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. The information contained in the table is derived from the data provided by commercial operators to my Department in the course of the National Broadband Plan mapping exercise. This exercise was conducted by the Department in the period from July 2013 - December 2015. The target areas identified for State intervention...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Consultancy Contracts Data (28 Jan 2016)

Alex White: My Department administers a very diverse, complex and technical brief across critical and strategic sectors of the Irish economy. While it has a total complement of around 250 full time equivalent staff of whom a number are technical personnel, the technical, commercial, legal complexity and evolving nature of sectors with which the Department deals requires access to external professional...