Written answers

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

 
  • Waste Disposal Charges
    1108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when a final agreement will be reached in relation to bin charges; the measures that will be put in place for families...
  • Fisheries Offences
    1109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way in which his attention was drawn to Inland Fisheries Ireland not having the power to prosecute offences under...
  • Alternative Energy Projects
    1110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there will be a price set and some form of price regulation put in place to allow persons assess the economic...
  • Postal Services
    1111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the increase to €1 on the price of a postal stamp will deter persons using stamps and...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    1113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of plans to extend broadband cover to a location (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
  • Mobile Telephony Services
    1116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has contacted ComReg regarding the decision by some mobile phone companies not to make available to their...
  • Better Energy Homes Scheme
    1119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason window replacement is not covered in the better energy warmer homes scheme; and if he will make a statement...
  • Energy Efficiency
    1121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Government has participated in an energy efficiency audit on buildings owned by the State in an effort to save...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    1122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the availability of fast broadband to Lynn Cross, Mullingar, County Westmeath. [13267/17]
  • Ambulance Service
    1123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the removal of an ambulance call centre (details supplied) from a new and revised contract agreement...
  • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
    1124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that in line with the one person one salary principle, no public servant that is a member of a State...
  • Broadcasting Service Provision
    1125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for the longwave mast at Clarkestown, County Meath; the nature of its functions; if it will be...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    1126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he envisages the roll out of fibre broadband to the area of Hollymount, Ballinrobe, County Mayo; and if he will...
  • Illegal Dumping
    1128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the full details of a new initiative launched on 13 March 2017 to crack down on illegal dumping that will include the...
  • Bituminous Fuel Ban
    1130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if an exemption can be granted to a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13780/17]
  • Post Office Network
    1131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his assessment of the value and range of services which post offices provide to local communities; and if he will make a...
  • Fisheries Protection
    1133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of protection staff assigned to the river Nore and Nore estuary, Kilkenny; if vacancies created by retirement...
  • Salmon Conservation Scheme
    1134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to fund the works required on the river Nore, Kilkenny to remove blockages along the river for the safe...
  • Fisheries Protection
    1135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a compensation package will be put in place for eel fishermen that can no longer fish for eel due to restrictions for...
  • Fishing Licences
    1136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money collected by IFI relative to fishing licences; the number of fisherman paying the extra...
  • Salmon Hardship Scheme
    1137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the provision of a compensation package to buy out snap net fishermen on the river Nore; and if he will...
  • Inland Fisheries
    1138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a fish counter will be provided as promised by IFI and the OPW on the River Nore, Kilkenny City. [13874/17]
  • Mobile Telephony Services
    1139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a low-cost option for persons telephoning Government Departments and offices from mobile phone networks could be...
  • Geological Survey of Ireland
    1142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the counties in which his Department or its agencies have conducted groundwater mapping investigations; and if the data...
  • Better Energy Homes Scheme
    1143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there will be any changes to the current criteria of the SEAI's better energy homeowner scheme which may cause an...
  • Departmental Legal Costs
    1144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount spent externally by his Department on legal advice for each year since 2015; the solicitors firms...
  • Bioenergy Strategy
    1146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the strategic environmental assessment of the draft National Bioenergy Plan, which was drafted in 2014 and has...
  • Climate Change Policy
    1147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the roles he envisages in national climate policy for a number of provisions (details supplied); and his...
  • EU Directives
    1149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Environmental Protection Agency has plans to act upon calls from interested stakeholders regarding reducing...
  • Water Pollution
    1150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the health risks of spreading dog faeces on fields (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Climate Change Policy
    1151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures being taken to offset the effects of climate change with particular reference to the encouragement of the...
  • Departmental Priorities
    1152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his priorities under the headings of communications, climate action and the environment; the extent to which targets are...
  • Mobile Telephony Services
    1153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which improvements have taken place in the quality of mobile telephone service with particular reference...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    1154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress in relation to the provision of high quality and high speed broadband in all areas throughout the country...
  • Waste Management
    1155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the guidelines or regulations appertaining to the dumping of various forms of waste at landfill facilities throughout...
  • Quarrying Sector
    1156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which procedures to restore disused or exhausted quarries are in force having particular regard to the...
  • Climate Change Policy
    1159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress to date in the meeting of international targets and agreements on carbon reduction; and if he will make a...
  • Environmental Protection Enforcement
    1160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the degree to which he remains satisfied that adequate measures continue to be taken to ensure environmental protection...
  • Air Pollution
    1161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which the levels of air pollution continue to be monitored; if the results are in keeping with best...
  • Ministerial Allowances
    1162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that no Minister or Minister of State under his remit since 2011 has claimed overnight expenses for...

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