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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postal Services (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: It is Government policy to implement postcodes. The procurement process to select a postcode management licence holder to implement a National Postcode System began in 2011 with the publication of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire on . That process is still ongoing, and it is expected to conclude in the first half of 2013. The final decision to proceed with implementation of a national...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I intend to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the energy sector between Ireland and the United Kingdom with Secretary of State Davey in Dublin on the 24th of January. The Memorandum of Understanding will result in completion of consideration of how Irish renewable energy resources, onshore and offshore, might be developed to the mutual benefit of Ireland and the United...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: On 30th August 2012, I published ‘Delivering a Connected Society - A National Broadband Plan for Ireland’. The Plan sets the following high speed broadband targets: - 70Mbps -100Mbps available to at least 50% of the population with a majority having access to 100Mbps; - At least 40Mbps, and in many cases much faster speeds, to at least a further 20% of the population and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The provision of electronic communications services is a matter, in the first instance, for private sector service providers operating in Ireland’s fully liberalised telecommunications market, regulated by the independent regulator, the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). The Government can intervene in the case of clear market failure. It has, in the past,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) provides a complaints handling process for users of electronic communications services in accordance with its objectives set out in section 12 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002. In implementing this obligation ComReg seeks to provide users with sufficient information to deal with their service providers effectively and to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government’s National Broadband Plan, which I published in August last, aims to radically change the broadband landscape in Ireland by ensuring that high speed services of at least 30 Mbps are available to all of our citizens and businesses, well in advance of the EU’s target date of 2020, and that significantly higher speeds are available to as many homes and businesses as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: On 30 August 2012, I published the National Broadband Plan, which contains ambitious targets for high speed broadband services across Ireland. The Plan is available on my Department’s website. One of the first steps in delivering on the commitments in the National Broadband Plan will be the completion of a formal national mapping exercise to determine the exact position in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (23 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The infrastructure that delivers the 100 Mbps broadband connection to post-primary schools is built on a platform that utilises local access service providers, national backhaul service providers and HEAnet’s national backbone infrastructure. The service provision is on a dedicated point to point basis i.e. from the school building to the service provider’s network and onward...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: St. Francis of Assisi.

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I remember a period like that a few years ago, where there was none for four years.

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The Deputy still has not read the Travers report.

Tax Compliance and Exchange of Information: Motion (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Agreement to Improve Tax Compliance and Provide for Reporting and Exchange of Information concerning Tax Matters (United States of America) Order 2013,a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 11th January, 2013."

Exchange of Information Relating to Taxes: Motion (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Exchange of Information Relating to Taxes (Montserrat) Order 2013,a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 11th January, 2013.”

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas Exploration (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The level of exploration offshore Ireland is low and as a result Ireland’s petroleum potential is largely unproven with only four commercial gas discoveries since exploration began in the early 1970s; namely the Kinsale, Ballycotton and Seven Heads producing gas fields off the coast of Cork and the Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast, which is currently being developed. There have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Postcode System (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: It is Government policy to implement postcodes. The procurement process to select a postcode management licence holder to implement a National Postcode System began in 2011 with the publication of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire on . That process is still ongoing, and it is expected to conclude in the first half of 2013. The final decision to proceed with implementation of a national...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Schools Refurbishment (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Overall education policy, including capital spending on schools, is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) administers the Better Energy Communities on behalf of my Department. Under the Better Energy Programme, Better Energy Communities supports sustainable energy upgrades to existing buildings, services,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Ministerial Meetings (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to advise the Deputy that neither I, nor officials in my Department, have met any representatives of the tobacco industry in the last six months.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services (24 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The provision of telecommunications network services, including Skype services, is a matter in the first instance for service providers operating in a fully liberalised telecommunications market. It is a requirement of EU telecommunications law that market regulation is undertaken by an independent market regulator. I am advised by the Commission for Communications Regulation, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (29 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I am advised by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), which manages the Lough Aderra fishery, that the fishery there is a “put and take” fishery and reared rainbow trout are stocked periodically throughout the year. The fishery operates throughout the regular angling season up to the end of September each year when most trout fishing ceases. Put and take rainbow trout fisheries are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Grid Connection fees (29 Jan 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 492 and 493 together. Supervision of the grid connection process is vested in the Commission for Energy Regulation. The Gate 3 Direction to System Operators (CER/08/260) published in December 2008 set out the list of projects to receive grid connection offers. As explained in the Direction, Gate 3 was designed to ensure the 40% target for renewable...