Results 7,681-7,700 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I shall not cut into Deputy Murphy's time. I wish to clarify the following in case people listening to the debate or the public do not know who or what we are talking about. The report was commissioned by the DCCAE, which is the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. We will immediately write to the Department. Enet understood, having met its staff last July, that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are writing to the Department to ask it to give us a good reason the report was not published last July if Enet and the Department had signed off on it. The point is that people would have got the price reductions last July rather than tomorrow or today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: So the Department wanted some implementation before it published is what you are saying.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Department that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: They are good price reductions in so far as they go and it would have been better if they had been out last summer. That is all I am saying. That is a Department issue - the report - not Enet. I am sorry, Deputy Murphy, for the delay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does Mr. McCarthy want his colleagues to sit at the table? There is no issue with doing so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Proceed once you are happy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was ready last March and published yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, that is exactly what I was saying. We will write specifically to ascertain why there was a delay last summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have a few questions. Mr. McCarthy referred to some comments made by the Secretary General of the Department. He was here before Christmas and I remember that very well. He cited the Norcontel report. We will take that up again with the Department and not Mr. McCarthy. I want to get the facts on the record by asking Mr. McCarthy some questions. He mentioned the competitive situation....
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are more concerned with the MANs and the public business with the State rather than private business. In that regard, there is no competition.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Eir did not even bid for the MANs because it was an operator at the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not think it sought the MANs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. The point made today by Eir was that under the European procurement rules an operator could not provide the service supplied by the Enet. It had to be independent. It was stated that Enet met that condition at the time. Now that it has a sister company in the same business, however, Eir questioned whether that condition was still being met. Does Mr. McCarthy understand the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. They are well separated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The sister company of Enet, however, does act in that capacity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I suppose that is where public confusion arises. Mr. McCarthy can understand that. I ask Mr. McCarthy to send that document to the committee because it will be important in our deliberations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: What year is that document from?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. McCarthy to give us the provenance. We are putting these questions now because otherwise we will have to come back to them later. It has twice been stated that the original contract provided for an extension.