BODY | MAIN ROLE |
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COMMUNICATIONS |
An Post | Ireland’s national postal service provider. |
Commission for Communications Regulation | Statutory body charged with the regulation of the communications market in Ireland. Its remit covers all kinds of transmission networks from the traditional telephone wire service through to operators providing TV services and from mobile phone networks to the postal service. |
Digital Hub Development Agency | Established under the Digital Hub Development Act 2003 to oversee the development of the Digital Hub, Ireland’s flagship in the digital media sector. |
BROADCASTING |
Radio Telefís Éireann | The national public service broadcaster and a statutorily independent body. RTE operates three national television services (RTÉ 1, RTÉ 2 and TG4 and four national radio services RTÉ 1, 2FM, Radio na Gaeltachta and Lyric FM). |
Broadcasting Commission of Ireland | Responsible for the licensing and regulation of the independent television and radio sector. The Commission is also responsible for licensing certain new digital television services and for the development of codes of programming and advertising standards on television and radio. |
Broadcasting Complaints Commission | Deals with complaints made relating to programme material and advertising on RTE and independent television and radio services. |
ENERGY |
Electricity Supply Board | ESB has generation, transmission and distribution assets and provides electricity services to 1.6 million customers throughout the country. |
EirGrid plc | Licensed by the CER (Commission for Energy Regulation) as the independent electricity transmission system operator. |
Bord Gáis Éireann | Has grown from primarily a transmission pipeline business into a vast and extensive supplier of an efficient, economic and environmentally friendly fuel to over 400,000 customers. |
Commission for Energy Regulation
| Established on 14 July 1999 as the Commission for Electricity Regulation under the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 to underpin an open, transparent and accountable regulatory process for the electricity industry in Ireland. Commission’s jurisdiction expanded under the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002 to that of energy regulator, incorporating both gas and electricity. The Commission has been renamed as the Commission for Energy Regulation to reflect its increased role. |
Bord na Móna plc | Supplier of products and services based principally on peat. |
National Oil Reserves Agency | On 16 July 2001 the commercial assets and businesses of the INPC (i.e. the Company’s two commercial subsidiaries – the Irish Refining Company and Bantry Terminals Ltd) were sold to Tosco Corporation, a major US oil refiner and marketer. The INPCs remaining non-commercial subsidiary – the National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA) – is the body responsible for maintaining Ireland’s strategic oil reserves. |
Sustainable Energy Ireland | Statutory body responsible for implementing Government policy on energy efficiency and renewable energy. |
MARINE AND NATURAL RESOURCES |
Central Fisheries Board | Promotion, support and coordination of inland fisheries and development and coordination and direction of the activities of the seven Regional Fisheries Boards. |
Regional Fisheries Boards (7) | Conservation, protection and development of inland fisheries. |
National Salmon Commission | Advises the Minister on the management, protection and development of the inland fisheries resource. |
Bord Iascaigh Mhara | Promotion and development of the sea fishing and aquaculture industries. |
Marine Institute | Undertaking, coordinating and promoting marine research and development in Ireland. |
Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board (ALAB) | An independent appellate body in respect of aquaculture licensing. |
Mining Board | An independent board set up under the Minerals Development Act 1940. Its function is to determine compensation in various cases. It is also charged with deciding what minerals are to be excepted from the State’s exclusive right to work minerals under that Act. |