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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Those extra 10,000 get factored into that over the next month or so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is grand and it is worth knowing. It is probably worth maintaining this in the NBI figures from now on from the point of view of the significant amount of the work actually done at that stage. Are we getting to the end of areas that are not in the intervention area being able to move into the intervention area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Department had said that the time was coming to an end. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: To move those areas would be seen as having a detrimental impact on their business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I hope the Department would maintain communication with them to ensure the commitment is maintained so people do not get left out. We had previously spoken about these areas and it was specific to Eir. I am aware the NBI disputed the figure of 40,000 premises where there was crossover of Eir and the NBI doing the same piece of work. We spoke earlier about this and the NBI mentioned we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get it. Even if NBI believes that if someone else is catering for an area, it still has to build or do something else. I think the media was coming at it from the perspective that NBI could have ended up getting payment for places that it was not going to build but that will not be the case, will it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There was considerable comment on the financial breakdown of NBI and the money behind it. Mr. Hendrick was here before and told us it was looking for new investors. What stage has that reached? Not that many of us have looked at many companies and their investors but it did strike me that they did not appear to be the kinds of companies that were in for the long haul or, in the case of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: So NBI is in conversations or negotiations at this time. Maybe Mr. Hendrick cannot go into too much detail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe. I thank the witnesses and apologise for coming in and out while carrying out my important role as a super-sub for Deputy Gould. I am a poor imitation of a Corkman. I will follow up on some of what has been said. I find it very interesting that height is not necessarily density. Every local authority is speaking about compact growth and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is something I forgot to say. I am sorry to interrupt, but I am terrible and I always do it. The fear there always was with AHBs was the fact that down the line, the AHB owns the asset. What happens at that point in time? It is something that arises regularly at council meetings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Across the board, Ms Donaghy is saying they are competing but they are not competing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Well put.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I saw where they opted for the housing bodies. Basically, they said the AHBs could get their hands on the finance quicker than they could, so it all happened faster.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Now, there is an onus on them. They have more resources to do this and they want to do it. However, they are doing this in the middle of not having enough of a maintenance budget to deal with the housing they have. How long do I have left, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Obviously the big need to fill is that we do not have enough units, and that gives us no wriggle room to be able to deal with necessary issues as regards transfers and so forth. The witness spoke about dealing with specific cohorts and so forth where the AHBs may have needed additional resources. An awful lot of people blame local authorities and say they have not delivered for them because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: You cannot make up for mental health services and addiction services. Unfortunately, this is a more difficult job than it was 20 years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: When I talked earlier about local authorities, it was not that I was expecting a rip-roaring row. It was more that I had seen there was some element of pushback, but it has been said there is enough room for everyone to survive because we do not have enough houses. We will move on from there. I was going to deal with what Ms Hegarty spoke about regarding the necessity for economic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union Humanitarian Crisis Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Department of Foreign Affairs (6 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire agus le hoifigigh na Roinne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union Humanitarian Crisis Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Department of Foreign Affairs (6 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are in very much changed circumstances. We could see this at the Conference on the Future of Europe. We saw how the language and some of the recommendations changed. How could it be any other way? The Minister talked about the commentary around the war and the fact that most of the expert commentators got it wrong. Vladimir Putin must have been listening to the same level of...