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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I suppose I refer to Professor Reeves' raw analysis of the analysis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: How could one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: To summarise it for myself, there are levers here in terms of the qualitative impact of something like this but there are variables taken in by the people who do this analysis to put a value on whatever, for instance, staying in Portlaoise three days a week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: No one can be definitely right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It also depends on what lens one is coming at it with. If one is coming at it as an economist looking only at figures one would have one view but if one is coming at it, I would argue, as a Minister trying to deliver high-speed cable across Ireland, one's lens is totally different, wishing no disrespect to the academic lens. Legislators and Ministers have a different job to do. They must...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: We could.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Internationally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Because it is Ireland and it is bespoke, different weighting could be attached to a different one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: A huge number of variables here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Finally, and I am sorry I am keeping the Chair this late, according to the briefing we got, Eir should not have been required to establish a new company. I found that because I sit on the Committee of Public Accounts and I have been through this previously on a number of occasions. My understanding was Eir was a larger company, Open Eir, and it had all sorts of parts selling other bits and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: All right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is Dr. Palcic saying that within Eir, it could be delivering two different things?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It was making it unpleasant for Eir.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am obsessed with the overlaying on the Eir poles.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Somewhere along the line, they made reference to next-generation technology. Is what is going on the overlaying, the next layer of cable, fancier than the Eir cable that is under it? Is it more modern?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: There is probably a value in putting in the next generation technology. If we had incorporated the not-so-new generation cable in the system, it could have needed an intervention.