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Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: One of the reasons for the delays with the national broadband plan or one of the complexities of it is that the technology and the contract has to be future-proofed for the next 25 years. We need to ensure that as technologies change and speeds increase, the infrastructure put in place at the taxpayer's expense will be able to keep pace. We want to see a minimum of 30 Mbps and the...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: I agree in respect of the enhanced role that is necessary for the WDC. It is in the Programme for a Partnership Government and we are supportive of it. We have given it extra roles in respect of the delivery of the action plan for jobs for the west and north-west regions. It is also represented on the monitoring committee of the action plan for rural development and on the Atlantic...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: Four supporters. I was talking about my own county. There are people, however, who have an alternative view on this. I refer to both council level and Oireachtas level. I have heard numerous people, including colleagues of my own, dismissing the existing phase of the western rail corridor as being a white elephant, a waste of money and that nobody is using it. That is totally untrue. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: The chief executive officer has the ultimate say in terms of the decision that was made following the recommendation from the complaints committee.

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: I meant the chief executive officer of the regulator.

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: That is what I have been told in respect of this matter. The Deputy said there are two sides to the story and I agree with her. I would hope that if any mural which had a slogan “Love Both”, “Save the Eighth” or “Do not Prohibit Abortion” was similarly covered over, the Deputy would take the same stance, like Deputy Coppinger when she raised the...

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: I thank Deputy Burton for raising this issue. The Charities Regulatory Authority was established in October 2014 pursuant to the Charities Act 2009. The authority is the State organisation responsible for registering and regulating all of Ireland's charities. Its role is to provide effective and robust regulation in accordance with the 2009 Act. Responsibility for the regulator, which is...

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: I had no hand, act or part in the decision. It was a matter for the Charities Regulator and its complaints committee. I am not privy to the detailed discussions which took place on that, whether there was a vote, whether it was contentious or whether it was unanimous. The chief executive officer has the ultimate say in accepting, or not, the recommendation of the complaints committee.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Licences (25 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: As the Deputy may be aware, three comprehensive letters of information and clarification have been sent to the Cavan Mining Objection Group to date and all of the issues now raised have been addressed previously. In addition, a presentation was given to Cavan County Council by the Chief Geologist of the Exploration and Mining Division of my Department on April 9th at which members of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Licences (24 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: As the Deputy may be aware, three comprehensive letters of information and clarification have been sent to the Cavan Mining Objection Group to date and all of the issues now raised have been addressed previously. In addition, a presentation was given to Cavan County Council by the Chief Geologist of the Exploration and Mining Division of my Department on 9 April at which...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Ireland (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the state Agency with responsibility for the conservation, protection, development and promotion of the Inland Fisheries resource. IFI have developed a research programme which is focused on the establishment of the root causes of the reported collapse of the Lough Currane sea trout population.  IFI have also briefed the Waterville Lakes and Rivers...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Angling Sector (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: I have been advised by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) that all funding schemes are advertised on their website – www.fisheriesireland.ie, their weekly ezine, social media and by press release to angling representative federations and the general media. The latest funding scheme for financial support closed for applications on 22 January 2018.  It is expected that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Licences (17 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: Commercial fishing licences issue each year in respect of Rivers and estuaries which have harvestable surpluses and where such fisheries exist. Harvest fisheries are only permitted on individual rivers which are sufficiently exceeding their individual conservation limit and in estuaries where all contributing rivers are also exceeding their conservation limits. Management is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Licences (17 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1151 and 1152 together. The licencing of fisheries species is part of the management regime which reflects the make-up and characteristics of each stock. The European Eel is a panmictic species which is a single spawning stock spread over the entire European continent.  Eels migrate as adults from European waters to spawn in the Saragossa Sea and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (17 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the State Agency statutorily responsible for the management and conservation of Ireland's Inland fisheries resources including wild Atlantic salmon. IFI manages salmon stocks on an individual river basis as each of Ireland’s 147 salmon rivers (including river sections and estuaries) has its own genetically unique stock of salmon. IFI is supported...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (17 Apr 2018)

Seán Kyne: Ireland’s Eel Management Plan (EMP), including the closure of commercial fishing, was approved, in 2009, by the European Commission under EU Regulation 1100/2007.  Fishing for eel was by way of public licence and therefore the issue of compensation does not arise. However, I directed my officials to write to the European Commission in relation to Ireland's proposals...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Ireland (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Kyne: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the state agency responsible for the protection, management and conservation of Ireland's inland fisheries and sea angling resources.  IFI manages salmon stocks on an individual river basis as each of Ireland’s 147 salmon rivers (including river sections and estuaries) has its own genetically unique stock of salmon. IFI is supported in its...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Deputies for their concern. It is recognised that there is cross-party support for the provision of school facilities within this area straddling two constituencies. While I cannot, obviously, arrange a meeting on his behalf, I will certainly put the request to the Minister to meet parents' representatives on demographic pressures and their concerns about school provision. I am...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Seán Kyne: I am taking this on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Bruton, who is at a rescheduled Cabinet meeting. He would have liked to have been here and had anticipated that he would but unfortunately he is not because he is at the Cabinet meeting. I thank the Deputies for raising this matter. It gives me the opportunity to set out the process by which the Department of Education and Skills...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Stocks (27 Mar 2018)

Seán Kyne: IFI manages salmon stocks on an individual river basis as each of Ireland’s 147 salmon rivers (including river sections and estuaries) has its own genetically unique stock of salmon. IFI is supported in its management role by the independent Standing Scientific Committee (SSC), comprising scientists from a range of organisations.  Scientific and management assessments of each...