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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Alex White: That is a very useful intervention on the part of Deputy Harrington. I understand better now what he Deputy was referring to earlier. He is right because in order to be able to supervise or examine outputs, one needs to have the maximum amount of information available. One needs not just high level figures, but also the specifics. I will certainly consider what Deputy Harrington has said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

John O'Mahony: If it is acceptable, I will take all the members who wish to come in here, Deputies Harrington and Tom Fleming and Senator Mooney have indicated, and perhaps I then will ask the Minister to respond before we move on from the performance side to the other side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Noel Harrington: I thank the Minister for his answers in respect of those programmes that easily lend themselves to the new guidelines. It would be helpful to the committee if the Minister and the Department could in respect of the information technology subhead which deals with MANs 1, for example, look at the figures retrospectively and apply the guidelines in a retrospective way over a number of years....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...that here right now by saying it is not on the agenda. He would be doing everybody a favour. Postmasters around the country listening to this will be ringing the Minister, my good friend Deputy Harrington who is also a postmaster, and me to ask if it is true that the Oireachtas committee is suggesting taking away the television licence from them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Noel Harrington: I welcome the Minister and his officials, as well as his opening statement and his commitment to presenting the information with the new guidelines. I have a few questions. In discussions the Minister may have had with the Department in the knowledge the new guidelines were to be discussed, did he meet with some resistance within the Department? While I accept the Minister's commitment to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Alex White: Deputy Harrington asked whether I found any resistance to this process of scrutinising outputs and applying a measurement of outputs to the work of the Department. I assure the Deputy that I have encountered no resistance at all. In fact, on the contrary, I have found that for the officials I work with in the Department, who are very professional people, it actually enhances their own sense...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Alex White: ...the successful bidder will go first or what order of work the successful bidder will plan for. We can weave into the bidding process a certain amount of prioritisation. That relates to Deputy Harrington's point earlier as well. There was a question relating to peat and bioenergy. The Department produced and published a bioenergy plan in 2014. I have had close contact with Bord na...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Noel Harrington: I will touch on a few issues. Reference is made in the subhead briefing on A3 to the national broadband scheme. Is that the old scheme? What remains of that scheme? We wait with great interest to see how the procurement process for the new national broadband plan evolves. We can be certain of a few aspects, but the point to which the national scheme will match what the private sector...