Mary Wallace (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Question 91: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the maximum frequency emissions permissible in any one location by telecommunications masts. [26059/05]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The limits for non-ionising radiation are global limits established internationally by the International Commission for Non Ionising Radiation Protection, ICNIRP. The maximum frequency emissions permissible in any one location are governed by these guidelines which are set at levels which are many times less than the experimental levels at which no adverse effects have been established.

Ireland has adopted the European Union Council recommendation of 12 July 1999 on The Limitation Of Exposure Of The General Public To Electromagnetic Fields — 0 Hz to 300 GHz - 1999/519/EC, and the guidelines established by the ICNIRP and participates in the work of the International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety, which sets standards in this area.