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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: No, I am talking about the carbon levy fund. The Government provided €35 million from the carbon levy revenue fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The accounts note that net assets attributable to holders of redeemable shares stood at €5 million on 31 March 2016. At that point, the Minister held 45.7% of the total shareholding of the fund. Who owned the balance? Is that the new fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. Griffin was dealing with the carbon levy fund and this followed after it and, therefore, I thought it related to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes. Mr. Griffin need not give me the final accounts. In respect of the 2016 annual report, Mr. Griffin must be tired discussing broadband but mobile phone signals are also an issue. I do not have a mobile phone signal from any operator in my constituency office or my house. At either location, I have to walk out to the garden or to the side of the road in order to receive a phone call....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Exactly. What can the Department do in this regard? Mr. Griffin must be aware that mobile phone signal quality varies and is poor in some areas, including busy locations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Griffin send me a note on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: He will understand that the mobile phone signal is very poor in many areas.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We hear a great deal about broadband but we do not have the basics. We have been informed that another mast is required. While masts were highly controversial a decade ago, I have not seen-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We all understand that. I have not seen any new masts being erected in the past five years. While the old permissions are being renewed, there does not appear to be an appetite to fill the gaps. The companies are throwing the issue back on the State by asking to use State infrastructure rather than spending a few bob of their own money. Cybersecurity is an emerging theme. There have...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: What is the Department's role? Is Mr. Griffin the man, so to speak, when it comes to protecting our cybersecurity?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: What kind of money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Griffin referring to the Department's Estimate for 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: When is the Estimate expected to go to committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I presume it will be soon.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: It will be done before Christmas at any rate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I am sure we will return to this matter next year. On electricity infrastructure and the Celtic connector between Ireland and France, I am aware the Department is moving on to the next phase. Is this a five or ten-year project?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I am not referring to the date of an actual connection.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: That is not especially big.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We are familiar with the 400 kV line. I am surprised the Department's 70 page annual report features only one page on renewable energy. It seems very light in that regard given that wind and solar are such big issues. What is the position regarding the renewable energy feed-in tariff, REFIT, and its rate?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Will that add to the public service obligation, PSO, on electricity bills? Is that from where funding for the scheme will come?