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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: I am quite willing to hear the views of the committee. If the committee wants to come forward with a proposal to introduce a broadcasting charge or amend the current legislation, it should come forward with it and we will have a look at it. The Department will facilitate the committee any way it can in respect of that. My priority from a legislative point of view is to ensure that content...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: That could very well happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: I have-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: Deputy Dooley asked about climate change. Our Department is the lead Department on climate action. However, some aspects are directly within my competency as Minister - on the electricity side, on the energy side, and on buildings and energy efficiency. They come under my remit. Agriculture and transport do not come under my remit. We work quite closely and there is a Cabinet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: No, but in our day-to-day business, we travel long distances and trying to find charge points for electric vehicles can be difficult. People in the Dublin region can charge them when they get to work and again when they get home. The challenge is slightly different but there have been developments with batteries. The European Commission is putting significant investment into this and there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: The third runway comes under the remit of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. We are working with the Department on emissions across the board and we will continue to engage actively with it in this regard. A process will be undertaken regarding the third runway and I will not get involved in that. Let us see what comes out of that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: Our Department has been engaged with the new owners. I am going down for the official handover which is coming about in the next couple of weeks. It is a positive development. The new owners are committed to the site and its operation and we have engaged with them at departmental level. We will probably get the opportunity to talk directly to them when we go down and visit. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: Is the Senator referring to the storage facilities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: All of these issues will have to be reconsidered in the context of Brexit and it would be foolish of me to rule anything in or out. A lot also depends on the agreement with the United Kingdom. For example, Ireland is subject to conditions within the European Union which oblige it to have capacity and storage facilities for oil and gas reserves. I refer to the obligation to have a 90-day...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: End of Life Vehicles Certification (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1630 and 1631 together. Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of-life vehicles aims to reduce the disposal of waste from end-of-life vehicles and lays down measures for the prevention of waste from vehicles.  It also provides for reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of end-of-life vehicles...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: The charges applied by waste management companies are a matter between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation.  The waste management industry had committed to providing a full weight allowance for the disposal of non-infancy incontinence wear to the estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Tourism Industry (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: My role, as Minister, is to provide the legislative and policy framework under which both local authority and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement action against illegal dumping is initiated. Enforcement action against illegal waste activity is a matter for the local authorities and the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) of the EPA. As Minister, I am specifically...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: The charges applied by waste management companies are a matter between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation. However, as the waste industry began releasing its proposed prices under pay-by-weight in June, 2016, the Government relayed its concern to the industry...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Nuclear Safety (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: A comprehensive report (in the form of a Probabilistic Risk Assessment, or “PRA”) on the risks to Ireland from Sellafield, was completed in 2012. The PRA was a very comprehensive and detailed scientific exercise which established that there was no threat to the health of the public in Ireland arising from activity at the Sellafield site. I am satisfied with the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: My Department has engaged actively and intensively with representatives of the waste industry and a way forward has been agreed that results in customers paying no more than their current rate for presenting the same amount of waste and receiving the same level of service by means of a price freeze to end-June 2017. Notwithstanding the above, it is intended to roll out a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Resources (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: Under EU and International Energy Agency (IEA) obligations, Ireland is required to hold 90 days of oil stocks that can be used in the event of an oil supply disruption. The National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA) is responsible for acquiring and managing Ireland’s emergency oil stocks. At the end of August 2016, the volume of the national oil reserve was just over 1.6 million tonnes....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statutory Instruments (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: Section 1 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927 provides that “the expression “statutory undertaker” means any person authorised by any local or personal Act of the United Kingdom Parliament or any private Act of the Oireachtas or any Provisional or other Order made under statutory authority (whether before or after the establishment of Saorstát Eireann) to generate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: The National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to deliver high speed services to every city, town, village and individual premises in Ireland. The Programme for Government commits to the delivery of the NBP as a matter of priority.  This is being achieved through private investment by commercial telecommunications companies and through a State intervention in areas where...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: The National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to deliver high speed services to every city, town, village and individual premises in Ireland. The Programme for Government commits to the delivery of the NBP as a matter of priority.  This is being achieved through private investment by commercial telecommunications companies and through a State intervention in areas where...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2016)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1650, 1658, 1660 and 1687 together. The National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to deliver high speed services to every city, town, village and individual premises in Ireland. The Programme for Government commits to the delivery of the NBP as a matter of priority. This is being achieved through private investment by commercial telecommunications...