Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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1290. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount his Department is allocating toward implementing the recommendations of the mobile phone taskforce in 2018. [1149/18]

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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1291. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of implementing each of the recommendations made by the mobile phone and broadband taskforce; and the amount of additional investment that would be required to implement all of the recommendations. [1150/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1290 and 1291 together.

My Department's role in relation to the Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce is principally focussed on working with the stakeholders to progress the actions in the Taskforce's report. This work is carried out in the general course of duties by officials in my Department. As such, the amount required by my Department to implement the actions is generally limited to the salaries of those officials.

I anticipate that in 2018 my Department will allocate additional resources to support reporting processes, attendance at the National Ploughing Championships and towards the holding of a second National Stakeholder Forum, following the success of last year's event on 6 October 2017 in Athlone. These resources have not yet been finalised.

Costs relating to the implementation of each individual action in the Taskforce Report are a matter for each action owner, including industry and my Department does not hold records in that regard.