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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: In a competitive and challenging market, TG4 achieved a national audience share of 1.8% in 2014. In 2013, it was 1.7%. The national share should be viewed in the context of the decline in the viewing share of the major channels broadcasting in Ireland and increased competition arising from multiple channels offered on cable and satellite. I must say that I think TG4 has really tried to...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: I thank Deputy Lawless for the suggestion. On RTE, perhaps we could bring it back to its home in Athlone, where it initially broadcast from.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: I would be quite positively disposed to that suggestion. We still have the old Marconi transmitter in Athlone and are hoping to make a museum and visitor attraction out of it. I look forward to bringing the committee down to visit it when we get it up and running. At the moment the objective is to consolidate the Montrose site. We are examining the possibility of disposing of part of the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: The focus of programme C is on energy and the delivery of the key elements of the Government's energy policy to ensure a security of supply, competitive energy supply and environmental sustainability. The programme provides €7.3 million to cover the operational costs of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, and more than €61 million for the better energy grant...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: Overall responsibility for issuing the new guidelines rests with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government but my Department has a significant role to play in that. When I was on the other side of the committee room, I grilled my predecessor and the previous Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government about why this was not happening. There is a...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: Our objective is to try to achieve the 2020 targets. They are challenging but I am not taking my foot off the throttle on this, nor is the Department. I do not intend to throw in the towel on it. Based on the provisional outturn for 2015, with regard to electricity, for which the target is 40% by 2020, we are at 25.3%; heat, 6.8%, with a target of 12%; and transport, 5.7%, with an target...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: We have put a figure for potential risk in the stability programme. The Deputy would rightly criticise me if I did not acknowledge the potential risk if we do not reach our targets. As he will be aware, having sat on this side of the table, if I am going to leverage the investment I require, I need to have a carrot and a stick. If we meet bills like this in 2020 I will have far greater...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: If tomorrow morning we had the capacity and the funding to replace every single oil-fired central heating system with heat pumps, people would refuse to put them in because they would be afraid of the technology, wondering whether it would fail or it would work, whether it would keep the house as warm as it should be, whether they could rely on the contractor putting it in and whether the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: I am not 100% sure exactly when the licences were signed. I will come back to the Deputy on the matter.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: Yes.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: We do not have a specific note on programme F, appropriations-in-aid, but we are happy to answer any questions on it. The Estimate covers proceeds from fines in respect of offences relating to inland fisheries, receipts relating to the Minerals Development Act, the petroleum infrastructure support group, broadcasting licence fees of €22 million, Geological Survey of Ireland income,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: The ECAS comes under programme A. Does the Deputy have a specific question?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: Yes, but I am quite happy to answer a question. Does the Deputy have a specific question or does she want me to elaborate on it?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: It should not be blank. Give me a moment.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: Yes, sorry. There is no income coming in from that. There was income in previous years. That is why it is blank for this year. Appropriations-in-aid are income into the Department. The big income we have in the Department is from the television licence, which passes through us. The Geological Survey of Ireland has fee income and the petroleum division has income where people access our...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: By all means, the Deputy can come back and we will get our officials to talk with her in respect of the matter. On 10 May, the CWU advised Conduit, the contractor, that it was seeking the assistance of the advisory service of the Workplace Relations Commission and disengaging from any further industrial action. We are monitoring that. It is going to the Workplace Relations Commission...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: I am happy to answer any questions.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: I thank members for their assistance. We will try to facilitate the Chairman, clerk or individual members in any way we can. If Deputy Bríd Smith or anyone else has a query on a particular issue, he or she should feel free to make contact with my officials. We will try to provide as much information as we can. As I have said privately before, I am willing to have debates in the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: We have not seen that request yet but will try to facilitate the committee in any way we can.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services Provision (30 Jun 2016)

Denis Naughten: The provision of electronic communications services, including landline services, occurs within a fully liberalised market, which is  regulated by the independent market regulator,  the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). The regulatory framework obliges all providers of electronic communications networks and services  to adopt and implement a code of...