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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (15 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is provided with quarterly reports with regard to the metropolitan area networks; if so, the nature of the reports; if he will release those reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47448/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Print Media Supports (15 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position with regard to the introduction of supports for the newspaper industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47449/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Brexit Issues (15 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position with regard to section 71 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 and advertising provided by television channels in the context of the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47450/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (15 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the estimated cost of the national broadband plan now stands at €3 billion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47451/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Moran and Mr. Watt for their presentations. I will begin by asking Mr. Watt about the potential for the State to be fined if it does not reach its targets by 2020 and the impact of that if it happens. We have heard about different costs. This is something that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is good at. It is not about spending money. The Department is good at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Has the Department a view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: They are important. We need to do some scenario planning. I am sure the Department is doing some. Mr. Watt might not be in a position to make guesstimates too far ahead. It is better that we spend money now on trying to develop programmes and plans that will reduce our compliance cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: We can be pedantic about these matters but, in essence, it will be money out of the Exchequer. When that point is reached, the loaves and fishes that have been mentioned will be much more scarce. It would be helpful to advise other Departments about making moneys available now rather than having to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: As long as those other things had a positive impact on removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The big thing for me -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Department have a number that it uses for the creation of a hypothesis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: That is why we have to get the activity on the heating and transport area rather than the productive side, such as agriculture. Yesterday, Bord na Móna appeared before the committee and it had some exciting new opportunities in addition to its decarbonisation programme. Bord na Móna has a remit to try to stabilise the economy in which it is based and to create employment. It has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I have some concern about that. When one sees the fluctuation in the price of fossil fuel at the pumps at present, it does not seem to be enough of a deterrent. In Ireland we are quite used to massive fluctuations in oil prices. The Government has to go further with the carrot in the initial stages to try to achieve that change.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (14 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 20 September 2018, when a person (details supplied) will receive the outstanding payment in view of the fact that the error was made over a year ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47307/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Donnellan and his team for their presentation. Many of the questions have been asked and addressed so I will try to avoid repetition. Mr. Donnellan finished off where I was about to start, which is the mandate under which Bord na Móna was established and, in principle, the recognition of the necessity to address a jobs crisis that existed in that region. As the company...