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Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Fianna Fáil gives a guarded welcome to this new climate action plan. We welcome the momentum it provides following the declaration of a climate and biodiversity emergency in May. We welcome that after eight years of knowing inaction and deliberate delay in some respects, we have some sort of indication that the Government may be about to treat the climate breakdown with the seriousness...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Members of the public will make up their own mind on that too.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 174. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will have surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25669/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of the roll-out of the national broadband plan in areas already covered by a commercial plan to cover 300,000 premises; when this roll-out was agreed; if this took place before or after the departure of a company (details supplied) from the bidding process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25779/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the barriers in place to ensure issues regarding the roll-out of the national broadband plan do not break state aid rules (details supplied). [25780/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 235. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for the duplication of fibre as part of the national broadband plan in areas in which fibre infrastructure is already in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25782/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for the presentation. As we dig deeper into the report, it becomes evident that while it is clear on why we need to do what must be done - we are all aware of this - it is about setting out clearly what needs to be done to reach the targets we have set and moving towards net zero emissions by 2050, but it is relatively light on how we are going to do it. In saying that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: What will that mean for the current grant system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister have a timeline for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Professor Reeves and Dr. Palcic for attending. The documents and executive summaries they have provided set out a very clear picture. There is very little further to question them on. They have made it clear, using their academic position and experience in procurement, that while the process that was undertaken may have started out as a sound endeavour and there was a certain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Will Dr. Palcic address that issue? One of the reasons given for using the gap funding model was that the benefit to the State would be that the ultimate winner would continue to invest in the technology. Dr. Palcic is saying that because there is no competition, Granahan McCourt is getting the latest generation of technology right now, funded by the taxpayer, rather than being funded from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Department's defence has been that it knew the costs anyway because there was a comparison available based on a submission made by Eir at an earlier stage in the process. The witnesses are clear that the competitive tension would have arisen in the latter stages of the process and usually as part of the final bid price, but that did not happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: If there was greater competitive tension closer to the final point, the level of investment by the company concerned would be greater because that could be scored against.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: If I could come in on the same point, there is a slight variation on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Just to clarify, would our guests accept that the real asset value in this entire endeavour is unfettered access to 542,000 premises and the fact that the company concerned will in essence be paid to build up a pool of customers who will pay, at current rates, €30 a month? Rather than just the cost of the piece of cable or whatever, the value is actually the monopoly access which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Do the witnesses accept that the manner in which the contract is structured is such that the greater the loading of investment by the company in a network that it will end up owning after the 20 years, the greater will be the reduction in the clawback to the State? The clawbacks are meant to ensure that the contractor continues to invest in the network that it will ultimately own. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: We must be careful here. With respect, this is a point of order. We have asked Professor Reeves and Dr. Palcic to come in to talk about a procurement process and give us their views on public private partnerships, PPPs, and how they might be better structured.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There is a line of questioning here that quite frankly would not be tolerated in general terms. I am a little concerned that we are-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There are a lot of unknowns and the witnesses are trying to look at what will happen in 20 or 25 years' time. In terms of the best protection from the perspective of the State, do the witnesses accept that full State ownership is the best way to ensure that the State is protected into the future considering that there is a relatively low level of private capital being invested versus the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There is really no financial benefit for going the other way because the State is carrying such a huge chunk of the cost. On the 300,000 premises, do the witnesses accept that if, as has been suggested, that the notion of overlaying the fibre was to protect the future demands of the 300,000 premises that are already in the intervention area? If any consideration was given to that as a...