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

Timmy Dooley: I wish to address the future potential or the future value. The fact that it would have a cable and have an arrangement to go through the area opens up opportunities once one is out of contract in 25 or 30 years' time and, therefore, creates a potential competitive environment against Eir or whoever else is there.

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

Timmy Dooley: That is one of the Senator's wiser contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive confirmation of their stamp contribution history for 2019 in order to have their illness benefit application processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24599/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and answers. A cost benefit analysis is quite difficult to perform in respect of some issues because of the subjective nature of the benefits. The costs are always clear but the benefits are somewhat subjective, notwithstanding the public spending quota. This is an example in that we are looking at the potential for the future. Sometimes it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The issue that arose was that a charge was made against the CBA that it was not credible. Ms Ball addressed that, which is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I would expect that. I have a question on the ownership. Ms Ball might be unable to discuss this because it is not her area, but if there are questions she is unable to answer, perhaps she could ask the relevant group to provide the answers for us at a later stage. They relate to the ownership model that has been followed, which is the gap funding model. PwC did work on the broadband...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Ms Ball said a team from the UK advised in this area. Perhaps it could give a view, which might make its way to the committee in due course. The major question for us, which Ms Ball cannot answer, is why the State is still proceeding with a gap funding model when, effectively, it is taking on so much of the risk. There is the notion of the competitive tensions that would exist with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank our guests for their presentation. It is helpful that they have set out their involvement in the engagement so far. Has Analysys Mason provided any advice or assistance to Granahan McCourt Capital at any stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is it fair to say that it has advised most telecommunications operators at some point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: It would not be unusual for Analysys Mason to have engagement with a company of standing in the telecommunications sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Just last week, KPMG contended that its original costings were out of sync to the tune of €1 billion. It seemed to segue out of that analysis based on technical information that Analysys Mason had provided. Is it fair to assume that this related to the reappraisal of the job at hand as a result of the parallel overlay of fibre that was mentioned in response to Deputy Stanley?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Did Analysys Mason have a role in the soft costs, or the subsidy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Was Analysys Mason's advice all along specific to the technical solutions, the build cost and building maintenance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Were the rates of sign-up, what revenue might be generated, etc, all outside of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: How much of the €1 billion could be attributed to the technical change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Were any of the redactions done as a result of our guests' desire or instruction or were they all done by the Department? I presume our guests were asked if it was okay for these reports to be published.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Can Mr. Kidney discuss the sensitivity of those costs and indicate how they might compromise the process if they were released now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Why would how they might display their costs elsewhere be of concern to either our guests or us? From our point of view, this is a State contract. We are charged with a responsibility to the taxpayer, so it is for us to try to get to the bottom of the matter. Is it not the case that there is no commercial sensitivity as it relates to this process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The increase in the cost related to the decision to roll out a parallel fibre cable along that network of 300,000 premises. Could our guests give us some sense of that?