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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but that would be as the main wholesale company. There was a requirement that there would be a separate entity to deliver the broadband.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, to sell the broadband. Would the virtual new model have to have got rid of that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Okay. In terms of the €1 billion cost that is in the newspapers today versus the €3 billion, perhaps I misheard Ms Lennon, but did she say at some point today that it would take €900 million to upgrade the poles and the ducts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The company would have a cheque for €1 billion in its back pocket and €900 million would go to upgrade the poles and ducts over 25 years. According to my sums, we would have €100 million left to do upgrades and pay the VAT. That sum cannot be correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Has Eir attributed a value to the existing poles in the €1 billion figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but the copper network is providing a certain amount of service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Ms Lennon has not attributed any cost in the €1 billion for the use of those poles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: But there is no figure included in the €1 billion for their use, because Eir is using them already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I suppose that is assuming the company would not be split from the wholesale element.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So really it does not fit with the Government's requirement because it is specifically set out that the interest is only to be in the provision of broadband. What Ms Lennon is saying could not technically happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Perhaps I am not explaining it properly. The NBI's sole interest must be in the delivery. There would be no competition in the sense that it would not be a larger company with other interests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but to be separate was a criterion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So based on the criteria, Eir could not do what it was proposing to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So it is really not relevant in terms of the sum here, that the €1 billion figure is assuming that the rules at the start would be changed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is a completely new model. It is almost cherry-picking aspects of the previous model and saying it could be done for X amount, but that is not what we asked for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: But it is not comparable in terms of like with like.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Ms Lennon said that Eir was applying the same variables to the 339,000-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Eir is layering on the sum from the 339,000 onto the 540,000. I met Ms Lennon at the Committee of Public Accounts previously. Was the point not continuously made that the 300,000 are the low-hanging fruit with easy access? I keep hearing that term. That has distorted the project and the conversation around it. It is disingenuous to apply the same cost per house from the 330,000 to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thought Ms Lennon said Eir was applying the same cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: For €170.