Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 377: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the percentage of phone masts, overall and in each county, which have been checked for signal strength and radiation output by the Communications Regulator since its establishment in 2002. [10615/06]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The Commission for Communication Regulation, ComReg, audits emissions of non-ionising radiation from telecommunication sites including masts. I am aware that to date 560, or approximately 12.4%, of telecommunication sites have been audited and that no site has been found to be in excess of the International Commission for Non-Ionising Radiation Protection, ICNIRP, emission limits. There is no breakdown available from ComReg for how many of these are solely mobile phone masts. I understand that these audits are carried out on a random basis and that ComReg does not maintain information on a county-by-county basis.