Written answers

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

 
  • Fisheries Protection
    436. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to permit fishing in an area (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Biofuel Obligation Scheme Targets
    437. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason Ireland was not one of the group of progressively-minded EU countries which succeeded in blocking the motion...
  • Sale of State Assets
    438. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if half of the proceeds from the €1.2 billion sale of Bord Gáis will be invested in capital infrastructures...
  • Onshore Exploration
    439. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the consultation there has been between authorities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland regarding plans for...
  • Renewable Energy Exports
    440. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to a statement made in October 2013 by United Kingdom Minister of State at the Department...
  • Renewable Energy Generation Issues
    441. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the supports in place for companies that install their own renewable electricity generating facilities on their...
  • Electricity Transmission Network
    442. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will encourage EirGrid to constructively engage with the local communities regarding the pylon issue; the person...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    443. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose...
  • Salmon Management Report
    444. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No.191 if there has been any reports or surveys on salmon numbers around our coast in...
  • Petroleum and Gas Exploration
    445. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the fact that no petroleum prospecting licence were granted to companies (details supplied) if he will confirm...
  • Community Radio Stations Funding
    446. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on a a recent Crowe-Horwath consultancy document for the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which commented on...
  • National Postcode System Establishment
    449. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the latest developments with regard to the new postcode system; the amount expended on this project to date; and the...
  • European Court of Justice Rulings
    451. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the recent judgment in Case C-262/12 Association Vent De Colere! Federation nationale...
  • Renewable Energy Generation Issues
    452. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of Ireland's energy supply that is produced by solar energy; the megawatts this represents; and if he will...
  • Broadband Services Provision
    454. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of the country that is currently covered by a broadband service; the counties that have the least...
  • Inland Fisheries Regulation
    455. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to concerns that the existing legislation regarding inland fisheries does not take into...
  • Broadcasting Service Provision
    457. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some television programmes made and broadcast by the public broadcasters...
  • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
    458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he envisages that the electricity system will be capable of utilising all of the electricity generated on a daily...
  • Electricity Transmission Network
    459. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide evidence that placing electricity pylons under ground will add 3% per annum for 50 years to domestic...
  • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
    465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current storage capacity within the electricity grid; and the targets that have been set to increase same in order to...
  • Public Sector Pensions Issues
    466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions,...
  • National Internship Scheme Data
    469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1388/14]
  • Broadband Services Provision
    470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when high speed broadband will be rolled out in Abbeyfeale town, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Telecommunications Services Provision
    471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding premium telephone numbers (details supplied) [1562/14]
  • Renewable Energy Generation Issues
    472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of proceeding with the export of wind-generated electricity as...
  • Telecommunications Infrastructure
    476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will investigate issues surrounding the ownership of a telecommunications mast (details supplied) in Co. Cork which...
  • Electricity Transmission Network
    478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to any damage caused to wind turbines as a result of the stormy weather in December 2013...
  • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
    479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount his Department has spent on consultants since March 2011; and the specific projects they were engaged to...
  • Consultancy Contracts
    480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department engaged private consultants to report on the proposed export of wind generated electricity to Britain;...

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