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- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: People might be surprised at me saying that. It might not be popular in some areas to say this is not necessarily the answer. However, my point is that a lot of this can be done by providers. How many premises are there in the country?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: When we started out, 850,000 were to be in the broadband plan. That figure is now down to approximately 550,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Ms Lennon is also saying that if Eir's board of directors gave her a budget, she could take more out of that. Then there are the other companies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Somebody suggested €3 billion for an ever-diminishing number. I get worried when I hear billions being mentioned and the need for the contract. We have seen documents. There is a cohort that can only get it with State support; we accept that. However, there are other ways. When people were not able to get water, they set up group water schemes and got grants. It is even simpler...
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is that download or upload?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: What would the upload speed be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are now talking about what is envisaged by the contract for those who get it might be 100 Mbps download and what upload speed? What was it when Eir last left the table?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Going back to the MANs, I look at towns that have a gigabit now available. That is 1,000 Mbps. What is on offer in this contract is only 10% of speed that is available to the neighbouring town a mile away.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I hope Ms Lennon does not mind me asking this and she is not obliged to answer. One would see a benefit to Eir, in or out, from the plan because the Department told us it has a million poles around the country-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----and it is going to require another €200 million to do this running from pole to pole. One way or the other, Eir is going to be centrally involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: ComReg sets that price.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Let us say in respect of our conversation this morning that ComReg had no role in setting the pace in the metropolitan area networks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I think it is bizarre that ComReg had no role in the urban areas while Eir is heavily regulated doing a similar type of business making its network available. When Eir is increasing the number of poles that the Department mentions, ComReg will be the adjudicator and Eir is obliged to provide it whether it likes it or not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Eir cannot refuse to provide it. I am looking at the broadband plan from 2015; we have the notes. Reference is made to procurement lots, as in different regional authorities. When Eir started, were there different procurement lots? That is what is in the most recent document from the Department, as if it was going to be done on a regional basis. Did that go out the door during the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: At the moment, are there two separate lots?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Eir was bidding for both. We can ask the other groups what they were bidding for. I did not know the contract could be subdivided into two lots. In terms of the 335,000 Eir has added on, were more of them in the northern or the southern end?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In respect of fibre to cabinet, being so big, Eir is part of the landscape. When it was originally part of the Department of Post and Telegraphs it had these cabinets all around. In some villages they still have the old cabinet and Eir puts in a new fibre cabinet. In respect of the old cabinets that are, say, three miles from the exchange, has Eir any plan to upgrade them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That will bypass the old cabinet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is Eir going to provide a fibre cable to every house in Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Under the broadband plan, is the plan to bring fibre to every house in Ireland?