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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (20 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 947 and 948 together. I recognise how vital telecommunications services are to citizens for so many aspects of their daily lives, including remote working, studying and staying in touch with family members during the Covid-19 crisis. I and my officials are also very focussed on the need to ensure that telecommunications customers are sympathetically...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Programmes (20 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The Digital Skills for Citizens Scheme provides digital skills training for people who have never used the internet with a view to removing a key barrier to digital adoption. Since 2017 over 57,000 people have participated in training under the Scheme. All organisations delivering digital skills training under the Scheme have been pre-funded to train a specific number of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (20 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: My Department funds a number of SEAI grant schemes to help homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their properties. Since 2000, approximately 400,000 homeowners have upgraded their homes with support from these schemes. This has resulted in warmer, healthier and more comfortable homes that are easier to heat and light. Approximately €120 million has been allocated to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (20 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: My Department's remit includes complex policy areas, oversight of State regulation and service provision across key strategic services such as energy, environment, climate change and public broadcasting, as well as regulation of sectors such as mining and hydrocarbon exploration. Given the technical complexity, economic significance and community interest in these areas, there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The Better Energy Warmer Homes scheme is funded by my Department and administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The scheme delivers a range of energy efficiency measures free of charge to low income households vulnerable to energy poverty. In 2019, €39.8 million was allocated to the Scheme with over 3,000 homes upgraded.  An allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The Government's Climate Action Plan identifies how Ireland will achieve its 2030 climate targets and deliver a 35% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (or 3% per year on average). This puts us on a trajectory which would be consistent with net zero carbon emissions by 2050. A key part of the Plan is a move to 70% renewable electricity by 2030.The Climate Action Plan commits to actions to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Emergency Services (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The Commission for Communications Regulation is responsible for hosting the 112.ie website. I understand from the Commission that there was a technical issue with the operation of the website in recent weeks which has now been rectified. Although not exclusively for persons with disabilities, the 112 SMS service enables persons, in particular those who may be deaf, hard of hearing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The potential sources of indoor air pollution are wide ranging and diverse and addressing these fall across a number of Department’s and Agency’s functional areas. These sources include: Local ambient air quality Building technology (heating systems, ventilation systems, etc.) Building fabric (construction materials, insulation materials, etc.) Occupant activity (cooking,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The table below provides a breakdown of hardcopy and online subscriptions for my Department from 2017 to 2020. In many of the cases, providers insist on individual accounts, however subscriptions are reviewed to identify if and where savings can be made. Online Publication Year Cost Total for the year ReNews 2017 ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: My Department uses web filtering technologies to control access to websites, these filtering technologies use category information, and reputation scores for each website and blocks or allows accordingly. For operational reasons the information is kept on the filtering infrastructure for a limited time - currently set to a maximum of one month. The list of top ten websites is only readily...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 969 and 972 together. The Deputy's Questions refer to premises which are located in the AMBER area on the NBP High Speed Broadband Map, which is available on my Department's website at www.broadband.gov.ie. The AMBER area represents the area to be served by the network to be deployed under the NBP State led Intervention, the contract for which was signed in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The Question refers to premises that are in the townland of Tomnalossett, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. A number of premises in the area referred to are within the BLUE and LIGHT BLUE areas on the NBP High Speed Broadband Map which is available on my Department's website at www.broadband.gov.ie. These areas indicates that commercial operators are already providing high speed broadband or have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 974 and 976 together. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF), are reported in Ireland’s National Inventory Report prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency and submitted annually to the EU and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. LULUCF includes activities...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The National Broadband Plan (NBP) contract was signed with National Broadband Ireland (NBI) in November last to roll out a high speed and future proofed broadband network within the Intervention Area which covers 1.1 million people living and working in the nearly 540,000 premises, including almost 100,000 businesses and farms along with 695 schools. The area referred to in the Question has...