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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Speeds (30 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Ireland's telecommunications market has been fully liberalised since 1999 in accordance with the requirements of binding EU Directives. The market has since developed into a well-regulated market, supporting a multiplicity of commercial operators, providing services over a diverse range of technology platforms. Details of broadband services available in each County, including County Kerry,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Budgets (30 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: In the context of the forthcoming Budget, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has asked my Department to identify savings which will feed into the expenditure decisions by Government for the Estimates 2014 and the setting of future Ministerial ceilings. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has asked that the identification of savings options should ensure that a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Wind Energy Strategy (30 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: By end of Quarter 1 of this year there was 1,763MW of wind energy generated electricity connected to the grid in the Republic of Ireland and 551 MW connected in Northern Ireland. In 2012, 15.5% of electricity demand in the Republic of Ireland was met from wind energy generated electricity sourced in the Single Electricity Market (SEM). In Northern Ireland the corresponding proportion was...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (29 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government, through the National Broadband Plan, which I published on 30th August last year, has recognised that the key imperative now is to ensure high speed broadband availability to all. Specifically, the Plan commits to: - 70 Mbps to 100 Mbps available from the commercial market operators to more than half of the population by 2015, - At least 40 Mbps, and in many cases faster...

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

Pat Rabbitte: The principal functions of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) are set out at Section 7 (1) of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (No 10 of 2010), which are the protection, management and conservation of the inland fisheries resource. The Act, in defining the membership of IFI, provides that the persons to be appointed shall have experience or capacity in one or more areas defined in the Act; and that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Natural Gas Grid (29 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) is the statutory, independent body, charged with the assessment and licensing of prospective operators seeking to develop and operate a gas distribution system within the State. I have no direct statutory function in relation to the connection of towns to the gas network. The CER, in 2006, approved a network connections policy which enabled...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Industry Data (29 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Whilst there has been some welcome upturn in the level of interest in exploration off our coast in recent years, the reality is that the only commercial discoveries of hydrocarbons made in the Irish offshore to date are the three producing gas fields in the Kinsale area and the Corrib gas field. There have been no commercial discoveries of oil to date. Despite the low level of commercial...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Speeds (29 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: The broadband service contracted under National Broadband Scheme (NBS) was designed as a basic, affordable, scalable product in keeping with EU State Aid clearance for the Scheme. Under the terms of the contract which my Department has in place with “3”, the NBS service provider, the NBS mobile wireless service is required to offer minimum download and upload speeds of 2.3 Mbps...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences Approvals (29 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: No prospecting licences have yet been granted in this instance. A statutory notice of my intention to grant licences over a number of townlands in the Inishowen area was published on 30 April 2013, with a period of 21 days in which objections could be submitted. Five (5) objections were received by close of business on 21 May 2013. A further five (5) objections were received after the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: European Council Meetings (29 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to advise the Deputy that the policies of Transport, Telecommunications and Energyare dealt with under one Council formation - Transport, Telecommunications and EnergyCouncil (TTE). In my role as Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, I sit on the Energy Council and the Telecommunications Council. I chaired an Energy Council meeting on 22 February 2013, which...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Parliamentary Questions Numbers (29 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to advise the Deputy that any parliamentary replies I issued to him to date in 2013 have been answered in full and there was no undertaking made to provide any further information.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: That was a smear.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: It boomeranged.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I have always wanted to be introduced to rural Ireland by someone from Dublin 4.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: I was wondering why you backed away from it, Finian.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy McGrath must not have much confidence in his allegations.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Does Deputy McGrath have any confidence in the allegation he made?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: What should he have said? Should he have said he was going home from Croke Park?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Is that a resigning matter?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Conservation (28 May 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: Delivering our Green Potential, the Government's Policy Statement on Growth and Employment in the Green Economy outlines the Government's ambition for growth and job-creation in the various sectors which make up the Green Economy. The Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and the Green Economy, chaired by An Taoiseach, oversees delivery of the various actions contained in the policy statement....