Results 27,721-27,740 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I used the term "mobile" in the way it is commonly used, as in "not fixed" line.

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: This means it is connected to one's computer or to whatever hand-held device one wants.

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I am not restricting people in terms of how they access the Internet. However, we need broadband access. In this case, we will have speeds of over 1 megabit download and over 200 kilobits on the upload. There is also provision for those speeds in the services to be improved in the five-year period the contract will cover. The crucial issue is to provide customer satisfaction. The nature...

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: It has the ability to cater for increased speeds over time. The 22-month period mentioned is the time it will take for the infrastructure to be put in place to cover all the districts to be covered. The cost to people will be similar to costs for what is available in the rest of the country and a cap will be set above which costs cannot go during the five year period. I cannot give the...

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: Last week I returned from the European Council meeting where I heard Ministers wonder how they could devise a way to cover those areas of the country that currently do not have broadband services. I was able to say at the meeting that we have such a solution. We now have a contract that will allow us to have universal coverage throughout the country. This is of major significance in the...

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: Under phase 1 of the metropolitan area networks, MANs, 27 MANs are available to customers from eNet which is operating, managing and maintaining the networks on behalf of the State under a 15-year concession agreement. Under phase 2 of the MANs programme, 58 of a total of 60 MANs covering 64 towns have been completed during 2007 and 2008. Construction of the remaining two networks will be...

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: While the Deputy opposite might have me signing contracts left, right and centre, I must be cognisant of the public interest and the taxpayers' interests in how we manage the development of our infrastructure. I believe I was absolutely correct to commission the value for money report examining our overall MANS project, to publish it in the Dáil and to act on the recommendations emerging...

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: No, those assets are available. They are available through the Magnum Opus contract arrangements that are in place, which allows any operator access to them.

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: It is not nonsense. It is the absolute truth.

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I am working beyond that towards——

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: There is no——

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: ——restriction of access to those metropolitan area networks and, pending the completion of the contract arrangements for the management service entity, this was the correct process to keep it open.

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: One clear issue that emerged in the value for money report is that there was easier and more immediate take-up in larger towns. Most of the first phase MANS were constructed in large cities, such as Cork, Waterford, Limerick and elsewhere, where it was much easier to get immediate demand. The investment in phase two of MANS was a longer-term investment, often in much smaller towns, in which...

Telecommunications Services. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: However, the various other measures in train that my Department is enacting and on which it is working in respect of next generation broadband policy will use them effectively on a proper planned basis, rather than rushing into something and throwing away taxpayers' money in an ineffective manner. I prefer to spend it wisely.

Housing Grants. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: The home energy saving scheme implemented by Sustainable Energy Ireland, SEI, will make grant assistance generally available from next year to householders to install energy efficiency measures. The objective of the scheme is to significantly reduce energy use and emissions in the residential sector by incentivising households to upgrade the energy performance of their homes. I launched the...

Housing Grants. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: As no one has finished up the greener home scheme, that point does not stand. In order to get this right, our approach was correct, namely, to start with a pilot and test it out because this is highly innovative and different from what applies elsewhere. I believe the home energy savings scheme is exactly right. I am told by Sustainable Energy Ireland that expanding it to €20 million...

Housing Grants. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: The banks were very enthusiastic about the scheme because they saw the sense of it. This scheme is different. It is changing from a long tradition of just throwing a grant at a particular material that one buys. This is going about it in a different way. It is providing a service and providing financial support, not to any one product. In the past the price of such a product rose to the...

Alternative Energy Projects. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 and 111 together. The planned introduction of a bio-fuels obligation will require all fuel suppliers to ensure that bio-fuels represent a certain percentage of their annual fuel sales. The bio-fuels obligation is designed to provide a long-term market based framework for the development of a bio-fuels sector and delivery of bio-fuels targets to 2020. The...

Alternative Energy Projects. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: To answer that question on what are sustainable bio-fuels, first, it is taking what are currently waste products and environmental problems such as tallow or vegetable oil from existing processing industries and turning them into an energy source. I see that as sustainable. Second, the development of second generation bio-fuels — the technology must be delivered here — from algae or from...

Alternative Energy Projects. (2 Dec 2008)

Eamon Ryan: In the absence of a European Union agreement I do not believe it is not possible for any country in Europe——