Results 28,841-28,860 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: For the operations to start delivering, we must sign off by June. It will take a further 18 months or so to deliver. Northern Ireland is a good example and we must measure ourselves in terms of developments north of the Border as well as south because the topographies are similar. Broadband uptake is speeding up in Ireland and we have reached the point of equal access with the North. We...

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: In speaking with ComReg about the latest figures on uptake levels, it is my understanding that we are on a par with the North. I will not dazzle anyone, but these are the key issues. If approximately 50% of homes have broadband access, which is the amount towards which we are heading, what limits the development of ubiquitous open access and a range of small applications? One limit is that...

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: A benefit of the national broadband scheme and other Government interventions in demand management stimulation is to examine ways in which to ensure we will avoid putting broadband connections in homes where there are no computers. The connection is needed for a computer, not a cooker. We must determine how to increase the number of homes with computers if we are to increase broadband...

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: The figure will be 100% after we complete our national broadband scheme.

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: To answer Deputy McManus's request for a cost, the amount is €50,000.

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: If I may explain my metaphor, my roots go right down into Tipperary——

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: ——and the Glen of Aherlow.

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I visit the Glen of Aherlow and other locations around the country regularly.

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: In delivering the national broadband scheme, it is our ambition to serve——

Telecommunications Services. (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: ——the Ryans in the Glen of Aherlow and everywhere else.

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (11 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: Under Phase I of the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) Programme twenty-seven MANs have been constructed. All twenty-seven are operational and open for business in Carlow, Cork, Letterkenny, Gweedore, Galway, Kilkenny, Portlaoise, Carrick-on-Shannon, Manorhamilton, Limerick, Ballina, Kiltimagh, Tullamore, Roscommon, Clonmel, Dungarvan, Waterford, Mullingar, Athlone, Wexford, Dundalk,...

Written Answers — Archaeological Sites: Archaeological Sites (11 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: There was no expenditure by my Department in 2007 or to date in 2008 on costs incurred due to archaeological works or surveys.

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (11 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: There is currently is no requirement under the EU Energy Legislative Framework on Ireland to hold reserve supplies of natural gas. While Ireland does not currently maintain a strategic gas reserve, commercial reserves of natural gas are held by licensed natural gas shippers and suppliers, including Bord Gáis Éireann (BGÉ). At current levels, BGÉ's Kinsale reserves can supply 50% of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: Four staff members in my Department received training in stress management in the workplace in the period between 2005 and 2007. Additionally, twelve members of staff attended a Life Balance Workshop in 2005, which covered the topic of stress management. While no specific stress reduction programmes have been put in place to date, my Department offers a range of flexible working...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (6 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: The provision of telecommunications services, including broadband, is a matter for the private sector. Broadband service providers operate in a fully liberalised market, regulated, where appropriate, by the independent Commission for Communications Regulation, ComReg. There are a number of platforms for delivery of broadband, and service providers are now offering broadband by wireless,...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (6 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I would refer the Deputy to my reply to Questions Nos. 1469 and 1470 of 30 January 2008, on this matter. As I stated in that reply, details of the number of production units exporting biofuels would be a matter for the Revenue Commissioners and my Department has no such data available. On the issue of Pure Plant Oil (PPO), I would advise that under the Biofuels Mineral Oil Tax Relief Scheme...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (6 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: In the time available it has not been possible to clarify and assemble all of the information requested. I will revert to the Deputy when I am in a position to issue a final reply.

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: The Salmon Hardship Scheme adopted by Government, aimed to provide a measure of relief to individuals in line with the level of hardship likely to be experienced on foot of the cessation of mixed stock fishing for wild salmon. Of the 1,332 applicants who received letters of offer from Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the administrative agency for the scheme, I am advised that some 994 applicants (75%)...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 323 to 325, inclusive, together. Wood Pellet boilers and stoves are just one of the technology ranges supported under the Greener Homes Scheme which has been in place since March 2006. Since the scheme was launched grant aid of €14.1 m has been paid out in respect of 4,021 installations of biomass boilers and stoves. When the scheme was launched in 2006, no...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: The provision of broadband services is, in the first instance, a matter for private sector service providers operating in a fully liberalised market, regulated, where appropriate, by the independent Commission for Communications Regulation, ComReg. There are a number of platforms for delivery of broadband, and service providers are now offering broadband by wireless, satellite, fibre or...