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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Had the motions been agreed, it would have been the equivalent of engaging in a banking inquiry without first doing the necessary preparation work. What is proposed is that the committee undertake the preparatory work first and then consider who it might be necessary to invite in. We are all aware of the conversation around people showboating and so on in a banking inquiry. What is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Administration (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has held any discussions with the National Pension Reserve Fund, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government or Dublin City Council about the use of funds in the NPRF for the funding of the incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin 4; if he will provide details of any such discussions; if he will outline his position on this matter; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the attendance record book for his Department on 29 September 2008 and 30 September 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32640/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the attendance record book for his Department for the month of September 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32641/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Central Bank has inquired as to whether there are recordings in the other banks covered by the blanket guarantee surrounding the events before and after the bank guarantee in September 2008; if they have made efforts to secure any such recordings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32642/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the value for money assessment by the National Development Finance Agency on the proposed waste to energy incinerator project in Poolbeg conducted in 2005; his views on whether it is acceptable to use data that is eight years old when the economic circumstances of the country have changed...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Official Engagements (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the attendance record book for his Department at the Custom House on 29 September 2008 and 30 September 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32638/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Official Engagements (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the attendance record book for his Department at the Custom House for the month of September 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32639/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 177. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his officials have sought the use of funding from the National Pension Reserve Fund, Strategic Investment Fund or other National Treasury Management Agency body to support the construction of the waste incinerator in Poolbeg, Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will request the National Development Finance Agency to conduct a new value for money assessment of the proposed waste to energy incinerator project in Poolbeg, Dublin, in view of the fact that it is eight years since the original was conducted in 2005; if it is acceptable to use data that is eight years old when...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 197. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of requests for the tapping or interception of conversations on mobile or landline telephones have been approved in the last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32635/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 198. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the regulations or judicial protections that apply to requests for the tapping or interception of conversations on mobile or landline telephones here; if he will outline the procedure that applies for such requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32636/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 199. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of requests that have been submitted for the interception of communications through a mobile or landline telephone belonging to a journalist or politician that have been submitted in the last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32637/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 225. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of requests for the tapping or interception of conversations on mobile or landline telephones that have been approved in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32646/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 226. To ask the Minister for Defence the regulations or judicial protections that apply to requests for the tapping or interception of conversations on mobile or landline telephones here; if he will outline the procedure that applies for such requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32647/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (4 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 227. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of requests submitted for the interception of communications through a mobile or landline telephone belonging to a journalist or politician that have been submitted in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32648/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the witnesses for coming in. Under head 5, can they explain the reduction in emissions under the national roadmap, or annual review, every five as against every one years? I agree with the witness who said that the expert advisory body should be more similar to the Fiscal Advisory Council and I ask him to elaborate on that. If similar terms of reference were used for the expert...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: The five minutes are not up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I would like the witnesses to address the question I asked about tonnage. Building on what was said; one must plan for the vision. Most submissions referred to an 80% target. I have returned to the question many times. If one puts a certain tonnage in place – a cow will emit whatever it emits – how does Mr. D’Arcy see the tonnage being divided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Could someone please answer the tonnage question?