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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: The committee that is meeting is engaging with Tipperary County Council, the EPA and the Department. It is discussing the specific issue of unexplained cattle deaths which, not to be alarmist, may or may not be related to the site. There may be other reasons involved. That is the main report for which we are waiting. The EPA is investigating the issue and at this point no specific cause...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: Programme E provides for grants and aid for Inland Fisheries Ireland which is responsible for the conservation, management and regulation of Ireland's inland fishery resource. The programme includes an allocation of just under €17.6 million towards the staff costs of Inland Fisheries Ireland, the Loughs Agency which covers the Foyle and Carlingford Lough and the Irish Lights...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: There are two particular stocks, salmon and eel, of particular concern to the Department. Salmon stocks have not performed as expected, anticipated or hoped for following the ban on drift netting in 2007. It was considered there would be an exponential increase in salmon stocks. While the increase in salmon numbers was very positive in the first year after the ban, they declined suddenly...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (11 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: The Inland Fisheries Bill 2017 will be before the House this week. I hope this important legislation will be passed without undue delay in the Dáil to ensure Inland Fisheries Ireland will have proper powers of prosecution. It has not been brought to my attention that costs will arise from a backlog of cases. Inland Fisheries Ireland has not raised any issue in that regard. My...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (11 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: The 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030represents the foundation stone of the Government's policy on the Irish language. In that context, by way of supporting the maintenance and development of the Irish language as a community and household language in the Gaeltacht, the implementation of the Strategyis recognised as a key priority in the Programme for a Partnership...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéim na mBóithre Pobail (11 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: Is féidir liom a dheimhniú don Teachta gur cuireadh mo Roinn ar an eolas, tríd Comhairle Chontae Dhún na nGall, faoin mbóthar atá luaite aige. Mar is eol don Teachta, tá forfheidhmiú na Straitéise 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 a foilsíodh i mí na Nollag 2010 áirithe go sonrach mar sprioc i gClár an Rialtais...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (11 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: Firstly, I should explain that the recently published report of the Moore Street Consultative Group is currently being examined in the Department and its recommendations will be considered by Minister Humphreys. Any executive action must await that consideration and would be premature in any event pending the establishment of the oversight group that the Group itself envisages being put in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Licences (11 Apr 2017)

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 management...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: Beidh ceannteidil an Achta Teanga os comhair an Rialtais i mí Bealtaine. Ó thaobh na straitéise, táimid ag leanúint ar aghaidh léi mar atá fhios ag an Teachta. Tá dul chun cinn ann agus beimid ag iarraidh go mbeidh níos mó.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: Táimid sa séú bhliain don straitéis agus táimid ag dul ar aghaidh. Tá ardú ar an méid airgid atá ar fáil. Ó thaobh na huimhreacha-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: -----tá fhios ag an Teachta go raibh ardú mar go raibh imirce an-ard sna ceantair i nDún na nGall agus Maigh Eo agus áiteanna eile insan Ghaeltacht. Is é sin an príomhfháth go bhfuil laghdú ar an méid cainteoirí Gaeilge sna ceantair sin.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge (4 Apr 2017)

Seán Kyne: Is cúis áthais dom a rá go bhfuil an deontas a íoctar le teaghlaigh Ghaeltachta a mbíonn Foghlaimeoirí Gaeilge ar iostas acu méadaithe agam ó €9.50 go €10.00 in aghaidh an lae (€70.00 in aghaidh na seachtaine) ó 1 Aibreán 2017. De réir an chomhthuiscint atá idir mo Roinn agus na Coláistí Samhraidh,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: I was before the Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment in private session yesterday to discuss the report it has discussed. It is hoped the Government amendments will be published, if not within the next fortnight certainly within the next month. That is the aim. It is hoped it will proceed to committee as soon as possible after that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Regulation (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the State Agency responsible for the protection, management, development and conservation of Ireland's inland fisheries.  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...

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: As well as the Attorney General's advice that the Minister does not have the power to instruct the Citizens Information Board.

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: I thank Deputies for their contributions. I listened with interest to the points raised both here in the Chamber and earlier in the office. The debate shows the esteem in which the Citizens Information Board, CIB, and its service delivery partners, the Citizens Information service, CIS, and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, are held by all sides, rightly so. Earlier, the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ferry Services Provision (28 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: The Deputy will appreciate that the Toraigh passenger ferry service is currently the subject of a live tender process and it would be wholly inappropriate to comment publicly on the detail of that process at this stage.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Eitilte (23 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: Faoin gconradh atá idir mo Roinn agus Galway Aviation Services Limited (Aer Arann Islands) don tréimhse 1 Eanáir 2017 go dtí 31 Nollaig 2020, tá sceideal críochnúil eitiltí le cur ar fáil do na hoileáin Árann faoi Oibleagáid Sheirbhís Phoiblí. D’eascair an conradh seo as próiseas cuimsitheach tairisceana a...

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (21 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: I thank Deputy Heydon for tabling the question and Deputy Durkan for putting it. Geoscience Ireland, GI, is an initiative under my Department managed through the Geological Survey of Ireland, GSI. Geoscience Ireland is a business cluster of 31 indigenous Irish companies operating in the geoscience sector. The cluster is managed by the GSI, with support from Enterprise Ireland,...

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (21 Mar 2017)

Seán Kyne: This is an excellent news story. In 2010-11, GSI, EI and five reference companies in the geoscience sector identified opportunities for Irish companies on the international markets and established Geoscience Ireland to target those opportunities, thus protecting and creating jobs in the face of a beleaguered domestic market. The geoscience expertise offered by GI's consultancy companies...