Written answers
Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the discussions he has had with ComReg and the action he will take in view of the recent problems experienced by... - Energy Conservation
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is prepared to implement any of the measures from the new 75 step programme to tackle energy inefficiency... - Broadcasting Services
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position in regard to the separation of TG4 from RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38794/06] - Fishing Industry Development
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress made with the European Union in establishing new recording mechanisms for fishing boats operating... - Aquaculture Development
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the recent new €2.2 million package to develop the Irish aquaculture sector; where these... - Telecommunications Services
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to provide cutting edge telecommunications technology in all areas throughout the country, urban and... - Post Office Network
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his policy in regard to the future of An Post and the retention of the maximum number of upgraded post offices... - Alternative Energy Projects
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the extent to which an evaluation has been carried out of the use of bio-diesel for domestic heating purposes;... - Aquaculture Development
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department retains the bond for £420,000 lodged by the Drogheda Port Company in 1998 in relation to the... - Geological Survey
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the full extent of the GSI with particular reference to the extent to which modern technology has been used to... - Telecommunications Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 9 November 2006, the options being considered to ensure full... - EU Directives
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the Government's position on the recent EU discussions on the extension of the Television Without Frontiers... - Postal Services
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has issued policy directives through An Post, directly or through the Regulator, in regard to the future... - Energy Supply
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the lessons which can be learned from the most recent power blackout throughout Europe; the steps that can be... - Telecommunications Services
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress his Department has made in co-ordinating the existing backhaul networks that are in the ownership... - Electricity Generation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has held discussions with the management of the ESB in relation to media reports of a possible ESB... - Telecommunications Services
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the support mechanism he is considering for the roll-out of broadband accessibility to the whole of the country;... - Energy Conservation
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the extent to which he has entered into discussions with the relevant Departments with a view to achieving... - Prospecting Licences
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has had discussions with oil, gas or other exploration companies with a view to identification of a new... - Alternative Energy Projects
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the alternative energy services that have been given consideration by his Department; the status of alternative... - Fisheries Protection
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the body to be charged with overseeing the implementation of the new salmon regime; the legislative powers the... - Post Office Network
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of post offices that have been closed or downgraded in the past five years; the number of new... - Foreshore Licences
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if there is a maximum timeframe limit for approving foreshore licence applications; and if there are plans to... - Alternative Energy Projects
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the arrangements he will take with regard to wind farm developments which were approved under the AER support... - Electricity Generation
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans for the development of microgeneration; if his Department is making a submission to CER on the... - Energy Policy
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the role he intends for the ESB in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38751/06] - Mobile Telephony
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to research linking mobile phone use to male infertility; if he will review the... - Post Office Network
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the Government strategy on the post office network; if he will provide the full list of the closures to date in... - Postal Services
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, in the context of the future development of postal and packaging services here and notwithstanding his... - Gas Network
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the development of the gas network throughout Connaught; the reason towns such as... - Energy Supply
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the Government expects to make a decision regarding the construction of a new east west inter-connecter... - Energy Costs
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has received a copy of Forfas' statement on the Costs of Doing Business in Ireland; if in view of Forfas'... - Fish Quotas
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the reductions to Ireland's 2006 mackerel quota arising from allegations of... - Energy Costs
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that the regulatory system as transposed into Irish law is capable of giving Irish consumers... - Broadcasting Services
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if it is intended in the context of the Broadcasting Bill to provide for subtitling with a view to meeting the... - Energy Costs
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in other EU jurisdictions, deregulation and competition in the... - Mobile Telephony
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that texts of an explicit nature are being randomly sent to mobile... - Telecommunications Services
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the further discussions he has had with State or semi-State bodies such as ESB, Bord na Móna, Iarnród... - Broadcasting Services
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the ongoing digital terrestrial television trial; if he will provide details on the... - Telecommunications Services
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he expects all telephone exchanges and cable networks to be broadband enabled; and if he will make a... - Fisheries Protection
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the Government's approach to the annual EU sea fisheries negotiations under the Common... - Proposed Legislation
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide details on the forthcoming Single Electricity Market Bill; when it will be fully published... - Telecommunications Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that deregulation in the Irish context is sufficiently focused to ensure the delivery of the... - Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the long term target his Department has set for the reduction of greenhouse gases from the energy sector; and... - Postal Services
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if An Post has achieved sufficiently high following day delivery throughout the service; if he proposes to take... - Alternative Energy Projects
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the action he has taken in response to complaints from householders and businesses in relation to the adoption... - Fisheries Protection
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will raise the problems of overfishing and the use of illegal nets and tackle by other EU fishing fleets... - Electricity Generation
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that sufficient generating capacity exists to ensure the continuity of supply and the... - Bord na Móna
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans for the future of Bord Na Móna and the role he expects the company to fulfil in the future; and if... - Aquaculture Development
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the national sea fisheries and seafood strategy and on the way this will be facilitated by... - Broadcasting Services
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if all religious broadcasts from the various churches here which were discontinued on the FM service have been... - Environmental Policy
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the contribution his Department makes to formulating the Government's climate change policy; if, in view of the... - Telecommunications Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the new metropolitan networks due to be constructed in 2006 and in 2007; and the contracted cost for the... - Fisheries Protection
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to the recent research in the International Journal Science that concluded that by 2050 there will be... - Energy Resources
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is currently examining an extension of Ireland's strategic gas reserves; his views on the development of... - Energy Policy
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is in favour of the introduction of net metering for domestically produced electricity as exists in... - Offshore Exploration
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he proposes to examine again all aspects of the Corrib gas issues with particular reference to the need to... - Postal Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to deficiencies in the postal delivery services which appear to affect specific... - Legislative Programme
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason the Postal Services Miscellaneous Provisions Bill was withdrawn; if it is intended to replace it... - Fisheries Protection
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will review and improve the compensation package proposed for drift net fishermen particularly in areas... - Communications Infrastructure
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the advice and submissions he has received with regard to safety issues associated with mobile phones and... - Offshore Exploration
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has examined the Price Waterhouse Report and analysis of petroleum exploration terms in Ireland, UK,... - Broadcasting Legislation
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he will publish the Deloitte and Touche and William Fry Solicitors report on the future of TG4 in the... - Offshore Exploration
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has held discussions with the energy and exploration departments of experienced oil and gas... - Broadcasting Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he expects to extend the broadcasting and transmission of RTÉ radio and television to neighbouring... - Energy Policy
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has reviewed the new World Energy Outlook 2006 from the International Energy Agency which warns that many... - Offshore Exploration
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the way his Department assesses the latest claims by offshore exploration companies which seem to indicate a... - Broadcasting Services
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to alleviate interference with television or radio reception caused by mass turbines or other... - Communications Infrastructure
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the extent to which he proposes to implement the recommendations of the Dingle Report with particular reference... - Fisheries Protection
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the way the salmon surplus will be distributed following the ending of drift netting and the introduction of... - Alternative Energy Projects
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on Gate Two of the renewable generation offers and commitments; if he will provide an... - Digital Hub
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the degree to which the digital hub is achieving its targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Telecommunications Services
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps he will take to provide a State controlled broadband and telephone network; and if he will make a... - Postal Services
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his preferred options for the retention of the maximum scale of services to An Post with particular reference... - Mobile Telephony
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will introduce measures for the regulation of the content of mobile phone products and services; if he...
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