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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 4. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the latest update on the Government’s application to the Commission for state aid approval of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16437/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: My question asks the Minister for the latest update by the Government to the European Commission for state aid approval of the national broadband plan.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: When will this be submitted to the European Commission? The Minister gave a date of June 2015 at one stage for state aid approval but where is that now? This looks like a never-ending saga. The broadband plan was announced this time last year, before local and European elections, to great fanfare. It was to resolve issues but, to my mind, nothing has yet happened. When will this formally...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I have followed the issue. When will this come before the European Commission? I know why it must go before the European Commission and that work is ongoing. In my previous comments I asked when it would come before the European Commission. Why was it not put in the April 2014 announcement that this would have to go before the European Commission? This is probably one of the most...

Other Questions: Post Office Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I want to put this on the record of the House. I received a letter from the Ceann Comhairle today. I had put down a question to the Minister to provide an update on-----

Other Questions: Post Office Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: -----of recent discussions with the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection on letters sent to welfare recipients requesting them to switch collecting their payments from local post offices to having them paid directly into bank accounts. That letter is a source of concern to every single postmaster. I asked the question but I am at a loss as to why it cannot be allowed on the...

Other Questions: Post Office Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Letters were sent out from the Department of Social Protection requesting people to switch their payments from the post office to the banks. Surely that undermines the post office network in a determined way. If there is a whole-of-government approach to maintain the post office network, how did this letter go out from a Department?

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the value for money of subsidies for wind energy on consumer energy bills; if these subsides will be continued, post 2017; the amount, on average, that wind subsidies contribute to consumer electricity bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16192/15]

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I ask the Minister the value for money of subsidies for wind energy on consumer energy bills; if these subsidies will be continued post-2017; the amount, on average, that wind subsidies contribute to consumer electricity bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: The Minister referred to the Commission for Energy Regulation preparing a report on subsidies and so forth. When is the report likely to be published? What are the details of that?

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: The Minister used it a few times today.

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: We look forward to it.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps his Department is taking to meet the European Union target of 12% in renewable energy in the heat sector by 2020; the current percentage of renewable heat energy usage; the level of penalties the State faces at this level; the role biofuels can play to bridge the gap; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the process followed for the recent appointments to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland's compliance committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16193/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Prices (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on discussions and steps being taken by member states at European Union level to ensure that electricity and gas suppliers pass on the reduction of global oil and gas prices to domestic consumers. [16195/15]

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Policies Fine Gael opposed.

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: We could say that is fine, everything is rosy-----

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: -----and we might as well adjourn for the next two or three days. Why are we having a spring statement? There are many issues which need to be tackled. When I hear the Government self-congratulating itself, it makes me think the Government parties must have been over in Government buildings and seen the autumn statement by George Osborne ahead of the spring budget, had an "aha" moment,...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Were I a cynic, I would call it an attempt by the Government parties to buy the silence of the Houses. It is urgent that we reconvene the committee, given the issue with sections 38 and 39 and how groups are funded. Under one section, community groups have their deficits met by the State whereas others must roll their deficits into their borrowings. A line has been trotted out since my...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (6 May 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the adjustments that are being made to allow the many farmers with joint herd numbers, to complete their applications for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, which have been delayed due to the inability of his Department's software to accommodate same; the way such farmers are to be placed on the scheme's planners'...