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- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: If tomorrow morning we had the capacity and the funding to replace every single oil-fired central heating system with heat pumps, people would refuse to put them in because they would be afraid of the technology, wondering whether it would fail or it would work, whether it would keep the house as warm as it should be, whether they could rely on the contractor putting it in and whether the...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: I am not 100% sure exactly when the licences were signed. I will come back to the Deputy on the matter.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: Yes.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: We do not have a specific note on programme F, appropriations-in-aid, but we are happy to answer any questions on it. The Estimate covers proceeds from fines in respect of offences relating to inland fisheries, receipts relating to the Minerals Development Act, the petroleum infrastructure support group, broadcasting licence fees of €22 million, Geological Survey of Ireland income,...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: The ECAS comes under programme A. Does the Deputy have a specific question?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: Yes, but I am quite happy to answer a question. Does the Deputy have a specific question or does she want me to elaborate on it?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: It should not be blank. Give me a moment.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: Yes, sorry. There is no income coming in from that. There was income in previous years. That is why it is blank for this year. Appropriations-in-aid are income into the Department. The big income we have in the Department is from the television licence, which passes through us. The Geological Survey of Ireland has fee income and the petroleum division has income where people access our...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: By all means, the Deputy can come back and we will get our officials to talk with her in respect of the matter. On 10 May, the CWU advised Conduit, the contractor, that it was seeking the assistance of the advisory service of the Workplace Relations Commission and disengaging from any further industrial action. We are monitoring that. It is going to the Workplace Relations Commission...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: I am happy to answer any questions.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: I thank members for their assistance. We will try to facilitate the Chairman, clerk or individual members in any way we can. If Deputy Bríd Smith or anyone else has a query on a particular issue, he or she should feel free to make contact with my officials. We will try to provide as much information as we can. As I have said privately before, I am willing to have debates in the...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised) (29 Jun 2016) Denis Naughten: We have not seen that request yet but will try to facilitate the committee in any way we can.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (29 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 193 and 194 together. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) administers the Better Energy Communities scheme on behalf of my Department. This scheme aims to support and encourage community based partnerships to improve the energy efficiency of homes, businesses and community facilities in a local area. Local Authorities actively participate...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Administration (29 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: The National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to deliver high speed services to every city, town, village and individual premises in Ireland. Delivery of high speed broadband is a strategic priority under the Programme for a Partnership Government. This is being achieved through private investment by commercial telecommunications companies and through a State intervention in areas...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Administration (29 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: The Programme for a Partnership Government commits to the delivery of High Speed Broadband under the National Broadband Plan (NBP) as a matter of priority. This is being achieved through private investment by commercial telecommunications companies and through a State intervention under the National Broadband Plan (NBP) in areas where commercial investment is not forthcoming....
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bord na Móna (28 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: Derryadd is a bog that Bord na Móna use for peat production as part of their normal business. I am informed by the Company that in some locations, the bog or part of the bog, is below the level of the surrounding water table or rivers and, in such cases, it is usual for Bord na Móna to pump water from the bog. This is a common occurrence in bogs located in the Shannon...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland (28 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: I can confirm that Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) carry out fish stock surveys of a number of waters in the State. I am advised by IFI that one of the many purposes behind these surveys is to provide information on the fish communities to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of its monitoring obligations under the EU Water Framework Directive. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Stocks (28 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 494 to 496, inclusive, together. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the state agency responsible for the protection, management and conservation of Ireland's inland fisheries and sea angling resources. IFI manages salmon stocks on an individual river basis as each of Ireland’s 143 salmon rivers has its own genetically unique stock of salmon ...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bord na Móna (28 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: I understand from Bord na Móna that the company's total land holdings amount to approximately 200,000 acres. The vast majority of this is peatland, although there are some small agricultural sites included in that total. Bord na Móna estimate that approximately 3,100 acres of their lands are designated either Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Special Protection...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (28 Jun 2016)
Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 498 and 499 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 a Partnership Government commits to the delivery of the NBP as a matter of priority. This is being achieved through private investment by commercial...