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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is true that if we are to live up to climate science, we must keep 80% of known reserves underground. We would keep shale oil reserves underground because the last 20% to be used would be the cheapest oil, probably from Saudi Arabia and other countries. Continuing to explore for more, when we know that four fifths must remain in the ground, is wanton environmental destruction - ecocide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is no security 232 km off the County Kerry shoreline. In any case, it is a 50/1 bet. Even we were lucky, the oil would be shipped to some distant shoreline, not into Irish waters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Experience suggests that if it was located further afield, the gas would not be brought ashore in that way. That is what makes me believe the security or greener than green argument is utter bunkum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to hear the evidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can I see the evidence that has led the Minister of State to believe we would ship oil from the Porcupine Bank? Will he show me the evidence from international oil and gas experts who predict it would be brought ashore to Irish refineries? I would like to see that analysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have one last question. The Minister of State says that in 20 or 30 years technology will allow us to take the carbon out of fossil fuels before we use them. Will he explain what he thinks it is? What is the technology?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will explain again why I am seeking legal advice from the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Advisers separate from the legal advice Deputy Bríd Smith will have. This is unprecedented. In this Dáil the Waste Reduction Bill 2017 has been delayed for two years by the Department by way of a money message, but from the start it was always clear that this would be the mechanism the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to ask a series of questions and get an answer before moving to my next question rather than throwing out five questions at once. I want to ask Mr. Godfrey about this issue of what percentage of fixed wireless might be appropriate. I know he avoided saying that ComReg came to a conclusion on that but my understanding is that the Government is indicating less than 2% or around 2% in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Did the issuing of the 3.6 GHz spectrum and its take-up by some commercial operators lead to an adjustment of the map area for the national broadband plan? Were any areas taken out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My next question is for Mr. Blaney or Mr. Leavy. It was stated that ComReg has "also taken the initiative to share early thinking on the retirement of the copper network once fibre-based services are available on Eir." I presume ComReg is assuming that when the fibre optic goes in, the need for the copper will become redundant. Copper has a recycling value. Does ComReg expect Eir to take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The regulated cost Eir can charge in maintaining those poles in part covers the cost of maintaining a copper wire on them. If the copper is removed, does that regulatory cost just pass on to the national broadband company? How do they recoup the cost that was previously associated with the copper?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for focusing my questions on Mr. Godfrey, but he said something which was related to what Deputy Stanley had asked. He mentioned the average wholesale cost of broadband access. The Minister made great play of the fact that €30 per home would be the standard price and that it would be the same in the country and the city. Mr. Godfrey said that would not be the case, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: As a rule, the prices charged for regulated telecommunications are not index-linked. They are cost-based. In the area of technology costs continue to decline per the amount of data transferred. Costs are not increasing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Increasingly, that is becoming ancient history. I have had difficulty in getting an answer to this question. Ministers said the reason Ireland was following the gap or concession model was fibre degraded, that it would be a wasting asset by the end of the period and that it would involve reinvestment. I asked for evidence to that effect, but nobody has yet got back to me with it. Does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I understood fibre was slightly different in that its very nature and the light transmission within it mean that it does not degrade significantly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I would be grateful if Mr. Godfrey would send me any information he has on the clouding of the glass.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have two further questions. The delegates stated the ownership issue was not a matter for ComReg. However, I argue that it must be at the heart of its mission to regulate a market in which we do not have competition in circumstances where the State is effectively creating that monopoly. In the case of the previous monopoly, when Eir was transferred to private ownership, the State was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Blaney, as a former regulator with the CER, might be best placed to answer my final question. The one way we could break that monopoly or have choice is to use the ESB poles, instead of or in combination with other options. There is a variety of options we could examine. When it comes to regulating that option, is that part of SIRO's work? Is that a function of ComReg or of CER? If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, the CRU, my apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: No one wants access to SIRO's fibre yet or could they have access to its fibre on a wholesale basis?