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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: To come back to Senator Devine's comments, when I spoke at a child safety online forum at Facebook last year I said we are trying to use 17th century tools to regulate a 21st century technology. It is a question of education in the widest possible sense and exploiting the technological tools we have. We need always to be very conscious of that. We need a legislative framework as well. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Law Reform Commission's report came before Cabinet around this time last year, but I am open to correction on the actual date. I have been informed it was in December 2016. There were two aspects to that. One is the criminal aspect, and the then Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald, outlined to Cabinet that she was proceeding with legislation. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I acknowledge the points made by Deputy Mitchell. We are taking the issue seriously, as evidenced by the four Ministers being present. She is correct in what she said and articulated very well the aim of the forum to be held on 8 March. It aims to identify best practice on this issue in Ireland - we do not need to refer to other countries - and examine how we can apply that across...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The issue of the digital age of consent has been covered by the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, and it might be better for him to address that aspect of it, explain the background and where we are coming from in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Chairman knows him better than we do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I will be brief. The reality is that we all accept we have a lot more to do. There are problems that we all need to overcome through the use of technology, through societal measures and through legislative solutions. We can only do this by all of us in this field working together. That is why the forum on 8 March is vitally important and I would encourage every member of this committee...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today, almost 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband. Since this Government came into...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 to 174, inclusive, together. Enforcement actions against illegal waste activity are a matter for the Local Authorities and the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department does not compile statistics in relation to prosecutions taken or fines imposed. Information is available through the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: In the context of Action 19 of the Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce, which was to explore whether take up of the MANs could be improved, a review of the MANs was commissioned by the Department and carried out by independent consultants. The review examined the operation of the MANs by the Management Services Entity, enet, which manages and operates the MANs on behalf of the State, and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: In April 2017, I signed a Commitment Agreement with eir in relation to its plans to provide High speed broadband to 300,000 premises in rural areas on a commercial basis. eir has committed to completing the rollout by the end of this year. Information on eir's planned rural deployment is available at. A copy of the Commitment Agreement is available on my Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services Provision (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: Under Action 17 of the December 2016 Report of the Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce, my Department and the Department of Rural and Community Development have worked to achieve a greater consensus around site selection for telecoms infrastructure and therefore improve mobile phone coverage.   In 2017, both Departments worked with a pilot group of local authorities to identify...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: New clawback arrangements in respect of enhancements to the MANs under the MSE I Concession Agreement were agreed with the concessionaire on 15 March 2017.  The clawback period was reduced from the final ten years to the final five years of the Concession Agreement, which is due to expire in March 2030.  The purpose of the clawback arrangements is to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The number of eVDSL premises passed by eir under the terms of the April 2017 Commitment Agreement for the three Quarters referenced by the Deputy is set out below: Quarter 2 2017:  0 premises Quarter 3 2017:  2,918 premises Quarter 4 2017:  392 premises Premises passed will now be able to avail of eVDSL enabled services which include speeds from 30Mbps up to and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (21 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: A Decision has been adopted at EU level in order to co-ordinate the release the 694-790MHz (700MHz) spectrum band in all Member States by 30 June 2020. This proposal will allow mobile broadband services to use this part of the spectrum band. The EU Commission's Digital Single Market Strategy highlights the importance of this band for ensuring the provision of broadband services in rural...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (20 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today, almost 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband. Since this Government came into...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (20 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: My Department’s technical team has contacted openeir to query the status of the premises referred to by the Deputy under openeir’s ongoing deployment of rural high speed broadband. Once a response from openeir is to hand, my Department will contact the Deputy’s office directly to confirm the categorisation of this particular premises in openeir’s plans. For...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (20 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today, almost 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband. Since this Government came into...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Speeds (20 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector. Today, almost 7 out of 10 of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland have access to high speed broadband.  This will increase to nearly...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Tyre Disposal (20 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I signed the Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations 2017 on 14 September last and the scheme came into effect from 1st October 2017. I introduced these regulations to deal with a chronic problem with waste tyres in Ireland. These regulations enabled me to put in place a full compliance scheme for tyre operators, operated by Repak End of Life Tyres (ELT) with a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Cyber Security Centre (20 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 465 and 466 together. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provides a range of cyber security services to owners of Government IT infrastructure and Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). The NCSC is home to the national Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT-IE) and is responsible for acting as a conduit for information to constituents...