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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: No.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: Yes, as does ComReg.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: I do not mind.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: ComReg is already active in this area. As recently as June 2016, ComReg published a review and assessment of An Post's terminal dues agreements. Terminal dues are rates paid for delivery of international inbound mail items. This review, which was conducted with the assistance of Frontier Economics, was a useful exercise as terminal dues do have an impact on An Post. I should advise that...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Amendment Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: It is not the issue of the rates. The Attorney General has advised that it concerns the likely impact on ComReg's existing powers under the 2002 Act and that it could leave previous actions undertaken by ComReg on terminal dues open to challenge.

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: My Department, in partnership with the Department of Arts, Heritage, Rural, Regional and Gaeltacht Affairs, has devised a programme of targeted acoustic sound and aerial surveys of protected cetaceans - whales, dolphins and porpoises - and seabirds in the Irish offshore. This programme, which was nominated for a Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Award for its pioneering approach...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: Clearly, Ireland has an interest in developing its oil and gas resources. We are making the move towards renewable and sustainable energy but at the same time, during the transition phase, we are exploring and continuing to harness the resources of oil and gas. In that regard, all applications that come before me have reams and reams of scientific data on environmental impact assessments,...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: It is not the intention to ruin any areas. All data that will be collected, that would be part of an environmental impact statement, is assessed by specialist consultants before coming to me for signing off on exploration licences. Deputy Ryan made reference to scholarships. This is an ongoing and longstanding programme and I know the Deputy was a Minister in the Department at the time....

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: There is a wide range of uses from oil as a resource-----

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: -----but clearly the protection of the environment and the protection of marine resources are included very much in the environmental impact statements, in which there are huge volumes of data.

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: The Deputy would have seen them himself when he was the Minister when they would have come to him for signing off.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Stocks (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: There are many factors affecting salmon and eel stocks generally. The current salmon status of the river Slaney is based on the information provided by the Standing Scientific Committee on Salmon (SSCS) and the advice and proposals provided by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) to me as Minister. In contemplation of the 2017 fishing year, three scientific assessments of the salmon stock status...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: Both Minister Naughten and I have welcomed the publication of the report of the EPA led Joint Research Programme on the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturingon the Environment and Human Health. I believe that the report’s findings justify the continuing prohibition on the licensing of hydraulic fracturing, which was put in place in 2011 by the then Ministers. In that context, I have noted...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: A Private Members' Bill to prohibit the use of Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction or ‘hydraulic fracking’ has been introduced by Deputy Tony McLoughlin. This Private Member’s  Bill passed its second stage reading on 27 October 2016. At the Second Stage debate, both Minister Naughten and I supported the Bill on fracking. The Bill was referred to the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: The Energy White Paper “” sets out a vision and framework to guide Irish energy policy and the actions that Government intends to take in the energy sector from now up to 2030, aimed at transforming Ireland's fossil-fuel based energy sector into a clean, low carbon system by 2050. This ambitious vision for Ireland’s energy system envisages a reduction in greenhouse gas...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences Data (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Kyne: Under the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act, 1960 and the Minerals Development Acts, 1940 to 1999, I am required to lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas half yearly reports detailing all petroleum and mineral exploration and development authorisations granted during the period of the report. The last such report under the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Kyne: Bhunaigh Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, OÉG, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge le hoibleagáid na hollscoile oideachas tríú-leibhéal trí mheán na Gaeilge a fhorbairt.  Theastaigh uathu cur chuige níos saindírithe agus níos straitéisí a fhorbairt chun cúrsaí trí mheán na Gaeilge agus...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Kyne: Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil Bille foilsithe ag an Teachta ar an ábhar sin agus sílim go mbeimid ag déanamh plé ar an mBille sin go luath. Mar is eol don Teachta, tá Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, faoi oibleagáid ag an Rialtas faoi fhorálacha ailt in Acht an Choláiste Ollscoile, Gaillimh le cúrsaí tríú-leibhéil trí...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Kyne: Tá cinneadh le déanamh ag an Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna, an Teachta Bruton, faoin cheist seo. Níl a fhios agam cén uair a bheidh an Bille atá curtha chun cinn ag an Teachta os comhair na Dála. Cé gur príomhcheist don ollscoil í an cheist seo, ní bheidh aon athrú ar an bpolasaí atá san ollscoil an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Kyne: I am advised that 52 members of staff in my Department perform their daily duties through the medium of Irish. Other staff are competent, and, in some cases, fluent Irish speakers. In addition my Department also seconds staff to Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga and 6 staff are currently assigned to that office.