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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