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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Application Fees (2 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the decreased cost in producing the new passports will result in a reduction in the cost for citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41180/13]

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013. I commend Deputy Joan Collins and her team for putting together this Bill. The Bill is modelled on legislation introduced in Norway in the 1990s after the housing bubble to relieve the debts of embattled homeowners and to ease the burden on them. We need to repeat that approach. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Welfare Services (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: While there may be a telephone service available, it will be interesting to see how that will work where there are application forms to be filled out or paperwork to be sent in to the community welfare officer for a decision. I do not know how that will work out in practice. I ask the Minister to keep this under review with a view to reopening the clinics if necessary if the service fails...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Welfare Services (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I join Deputy Dara Calleary in thanking the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this issue to be raised. As of yesterday, clinics have been closed in County Donegal. Some 12 clinics have been closed and clients are being asked to make their way to larger towns to avail of community welfare services. This does not recognise the geography of rural Ireland and counties and the difficulties many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulation Review Report Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that existing taxi and hackney licence holders can apply to provide the rural hackney service; if he will ensure that new licences will only be considered in the event of a failure to get enough applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41231/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulation Review Report Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I raised this issue during Second Stage of the Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 before the summer recess. The Minister of State should ask the NTA to give serious consideration to this issue because a large number of taxi and hackney drivers are operating in rural areas, but they are struggling to make a living in the current climate. Introducing another licensing brand in the sector will make it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Road Network (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for bridge replacement on regional roads to support local and tourism infrastructure. [40889/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 434. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, the fixed wireless access technologies he intends to accept in principle as NGA; the nominal maximum service radius that he will attribute to each qualifying FWA technology; the contention rates that will apply; and if these...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 435. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, the mobile technologies he intends to accept in principle, as NGA technologies; in the case of LTE advanced, the specific elements of the draft 3GPP standard that will be required to qualify; the provisioning requirements that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 436. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, and regarding mobile technologies that he might include, the requirements he deems necessary to ensure the required quality of service level to users at a fixed locations while serving other nomadic subscribers in the area of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 437. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, the VDSL variants that will be accepted as NGA; if they will qualify in principle or qualify subject to individual line speed test; if the mapping will include tested eligibility or submitted coverage or service areas based on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 438. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan in the case of service radius, the nominal speed that will be be attributed to each VDSL variant at 100M, 200M, 300M, 400M, 500M, 600M, 700M, 800M, 900M,1000M, 1100M and 1200M; if those are straight line distances or cable...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 439. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan and in relation to planned VDSL services, if vectoring or bonding are considered as qualifying planned investments and the assumptions that will be used regarding speed uplift to each VDSL variant, at 100M, 200M, 300M, 400M,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 440. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, which fibre to the building and fibre to the kerb technologies will be mapped; and what will be the definition of deployment in relation to these technologies; if in-building or kerb-to-building cabling will count as additional...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 441. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, which fibre to the home technologies will be mapped; if unlit deployments qualify for inclusion; the requirements that will be in place regarding wholesale access in respect of planned FTTH investments and in view of the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 442. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, which cable technologies will be mapped; and the requirements that will be put in place in respect of planned investments. [40955/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 443. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access and basic broadband maps being prepared for the national broadband plan, which mapping application software is being used; the radio wave propagation software that is being used; the source reference of the elevation data being used; if the elevation data includes structures and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 444. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, the action he will take in respect of credible information from a member of the public regarding the non-availability or not-spot of an indicated current service at a specific location and if he intends to register, retain and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 445. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan, if he intends to carry out field tests to verify the map; the methodology that will be employed in carrying out field tests; and if there are other means he intends to employ to verify the map. [40958/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (1 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 446. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in relation to the next generation access map being prepared for the national broadband plan and in relation to the plausibility test for planned investments required by the EU state aid guidelines, the business case plausibility criteria that will be used to evaluate planned investments; the financial data that will be...