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Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Senators for their invaluable and informative contributions and I acknowledge that everyone has expressed a caveat. It is a regulatory Bill that is specific and interim. It is about betting and creating a level playing pitch for both the traditional bricks and mortar establishment on the high street and online betting. I hear the frustration and also a sense of urgency about...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: This amendment is a technical amendment to the definition of a remote bookmaking operation to clarify that the definition encompasses the business and activities of a remote bookmaker or remote betting intermediary. Section 13 is also amended to introduce a similar definition for a bookmaking operation. The Bill provides that a licensed bookmaker may accept remote bets to a value of the...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gcoiste as ucht an cuireadh chuig an gcruinniú seo. The EPA-sponsored survey involves many stakeholders in Northern Ireland, as well as the Department. It is in the process of being carried out and due for publication, possibly in mid-2016. On the question of how much it will cost, we have in mind a figure in the order of €1 million....

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: But seeing as how I brought it up-----

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy will be aware, the steering committee is broad and extends North and South; therefore, Northern Ireland is represented. The committee is the mechanism by which the information is being gathered. The Northern Irish representatives will have the same access to information as their Southern counterparts during the process. North-South political mechanisms allow Ministers from...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. At the outset, I wish to acknowledge the role of the officials within my Department. They have been extremely proactive and this has been in response to the genuine proactivity at a local level. Local councillors, Deputies and the local community's swift response on the clams issue in Lanesborough has been positive and has helped the process. Do...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I have a number of views on eel fishing. As a person born in the north-west of Donegal and on the coast, I would not have had much familiarity with it before being appointed to this post. However, I have had quite a good briefing on the issue and I have learned a lot. We have had a number of delegations from people who fished eels in the past. There is a problem with stock levels....

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Exactly, and look at possibilities where we can have quick win solutions. There is a problem with the stocks and the life cycle. It is a long-term life cycle. We are also hearing reports of different examples, such as what is happening in Lough Neagh. We are examining other practices surrounding the fishing of eels. The eel fisherpeople would have been the custodians of the stock. I...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Summer time.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I agree with the Deputy about the massive potential. Obviously, there are stocking challenges with brown trout and wild salmon and there are discussions and consultations taking place about management. We could have a very wide debate about the constraints and the challenges, be it pollution, cormorants or seals, but we have a difficulty in terms of stocks. At the same time there are very...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I agree. Nobody wishes to send money back. There was enthusiasm at the Inland Fisheries Ireland board meeting. Many of the members would have been practitioners down the years. There is potential and there are certain aims and objectives on which our Department can follow through. I will take on board the Deputy's suggestion regarding information sharing for creating awareness. Getting...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Wild Atlantic Way Project (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an rún atá curtha síos ag an Seanadóir Trevor Ó Clochartaigh maidir le Slí an Atlantaigh Fhiáin. Táim buíoch de bhaill an Tí seo mar gheall ar an spéis atá léirithe acu san ábhar seo atá gar do mo chroí. Ní miste a aithint go bhfuil tionscal na turasóireachta thar a bheith...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Wild Atlantic Way Project (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Bhí mé ag caint faoi na scéimeanna fhoirmiúla atá ar fáil trí Údarás na Gaeltachta, ach tá ról leathan ag an Rialtas. Is é an nasc idir an Rialtas agus pobal na Gaeltachta an ceangal is tábhachtaí. Tá suim mhór agam, agus b'fhéidir go bhfuil suim mhór ag an Seanadóir freisin, sa teanga Gaeilge....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Seirbhísí Oileán (10 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Tá mé sásta le hachan seirbhís atá á chur ar fáil. Maidir le Inis Bó Finne, ní bhaineann an infheistíocht leis an aerstráiche idir Clifden agus Cleggan. Tá cinneadh le déanamh agamsa. Níl an cinneadh maidir leis an aerstráiche déanta. Táimse freagrach as an gcinneadh mór. Bhí comhrá agus...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Seirbhísí Oileán (10 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Tá sé mar pholasaí ag mo Roinn tacú le seirbhísí iompair, atá sábháilte agus rialta, do na hoileáin a bhfuil daonra buan orthu, lena n-áirítear oileáin Ghaeltachta. Tacaíonn na seirbhísí iompair seo - idir seirbhísí farantóireachta, aeir agus lastais - le forbairt inbhuanaithe na n-oileán....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Seirbhísí Oileán (10 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Chur an Teachta ceist faoi gach oileán, oileáin na Gaeltachta agus na hoileáin lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht, Inis Bó Finne, mar shampla. Mar atá a fhios aige, tá seirbhís fíor-mhaith ann. Chuaigh mé go dtí Inis Oircín, agus Oileán Thóraí i mo cheantar féin. Bhí mé lasmuigh den oileán Árann Mór....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Aeir Fóirdheonaithe (10 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Níl cinneadh críochnúil tógtha go fóill maidir leis an gconradh úr don tseirbhís aeir d'Oileáin Árann. Mar is eol don Teachta, d’fhostaigh mo Roinn na comhairleoirí EY chun athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar an tseirbhís aeir agus foilsíodh tuarascáil chuimsitheach anuraidh ina raibh moltaí éagsúla ann....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Painéal na nAistritheoirí Gaeilge (10 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Mar a mhínigh mé i mo fhreagra ar Cheist Uimh 37 ón Teachta ar an 22 Deireadh Fómhair 2014, is ceist oibríochtúil í seo d'Fhoras na Gaeilge. Ní mór dom a threisiú arís nach cáilíocht san aistriúchán atá i gcóras creidiúnaithe Fhoras na Gaeilge ach dearbhú i ndáil le caighdeán oibre an...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (10 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: As previously advised to the House, a decision on whether or not to extend the derogation for the use of Irish in the EU institutions for a further period of time is required by December 2015 at the latest. In that context, my Department, in conjunction with the Department of An Taoiseach, continues to be actively engaged with the EU institutions in order to formulate specific proposals...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ordúithe Logainmneacha (10 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Dírím aird an Teachta ar Cheist Uimhir 1056 a freagraíodh ar an 14 Eanáir 2015. Ón mbliain 2012 go dáta, tá Ordú Logainmneacha amháin déanta, is é sin Ordú Logainmneacha Chontae Chorcaí. Tá Orduithe Logainmneacha le déanamh fós i gcás 17 contae, a bhfuil eolas maidir leis an staid reatha fúthu-san...