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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: My Department's remit includes complex policy areas, oversight of State regulation and service provision across key strategic services such as energy and public broadcasting, and regulation of sectors such as mining and hydrocarbon exploration. Given the technical complexity, economic significance and community interest in these areas, there is a requirement to disseminate information and to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to a high speed broadband service.  Within a year that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Appointments to State Boards Data (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The following table sets out the composition of the State boards under the remit of my Department, including the gender balance and vacancies on each Board, as at 31 January 2018.  The detail  of all the State Boards vacancies is available at www.stateboards.ie. State Board Number of persons on board Number that are male Number that are female...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The upgrade, installation or routing of infrastructure is a matter for the relevant commercial operator. My Department cannot intervene in the day to day operations of a commercial company and has no ability to compel a commercial operator to deliver services. The Deputy will appreciate therefore that I do not have a basis to intercede in the matters raised. The areas of North-east...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband.  Within a year that number will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The premises referred to by the Deputy is in a LIGHT BLUE area on my Department’s High Speed Broadband Map, which is available at www.broadband.gov.ieand searchable by address/eircode. It will be brought a high speed broadband service through eir's commercial plan to provide high speed broadband to 300,000 premises, predominantly in rural areas, by the end of this year. eir's...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today Close to 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland now have access to high speed broadband.  Within a year that number...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Administration (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband.  By the end of this...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: All premises within the area of Allagour are in the AMBER area on my Department’s High Speed Broadband Map, which is available at .  They are therefore included in the State Intervention Area under the National Broadband Plan (NBP). My Department is in a formal procurement process to select a company who will roll-out a new high speed broadband network in the State...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 533 and 535 together. The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location. The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband. By the end of this year that number...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: At the meeting referred to which I attended with officials along with my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, the Ratheniska, Timahoe, Spink and Surrounding Areas Substation Action Group presented a lengthy outline of aspects of the project with which they were dissatisfied. These aspects covered issues of concern from the origins of the project in 2009 to the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 537 to 539, inclusive, together. Enet manages, operates, maintains and markets the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) on behalf of the State and provides high capacity products and services on a wholesale basis to retail service providers. Retail service providers provide services to their customers which include mobile phone users, broadband customers, cable...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: My Department is developing a new Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) which is being designed to assist Ireland in meeting its renewable energy contribution to EU-wide targets out to 2030. The design of the new scheme has included an extensive independent economic appraisal. This appraisal compared the cost of supporting a range of commercial renewable technologies,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 541 and 552 together. The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location. The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location. The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband.  By the end of this year...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Administration (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The key personnel responsible for the National Broadband Plan comprise a senior management team from my Department supported by various work streams. Given the complex nature of the project, it was also necessary to acquire specialist advice, including external advisors. The external advisors, who are listed below, include a range of national and international...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The ESB, through its eCars programme, has rolled out both publicly accessible charging infrastructure and domestic charge points for electric vehicles. In March 2014, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities approved an application from ESB Networks to recover the costs of a pilot project to a maximum of €25 million from use of system charges to cover the rollout of this...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Agencies (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The information requested regarding the agencies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for each Agency. I will request the relevant bodies to reply directly to the Deputy with the information requested in respect of their organisation.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: My Department has committed to updating the Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff (REFIT) and other electricity support schemes funded by the Public Service Obligation (PSO) so that they are compatible with the new wholesale electricity market design on the island of Ireland, the Integrated-Single Electricity Market (I-SEM), which is due to go live in May of this year. ...