Results 3,601-3,620 of 4,002 for speaker:Rose Conway Walsh
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Based on what Ms Lennon is telling us, the monetary cost of the project is an extra €2 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: This has serious implications. In terms of people's experience with Eir in terms of getting a phone call answered or a pole moved, has Ms Lennon ever tried to get a pole removed by Eir?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I have.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Is Ms Lennon saying that all calls to Eir will be answered within 90 seconds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: It has been years of torment for people who have been trying to contact the main telecommunications company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Ms Lennon will see that when Eir says it can deliver this project for less than €1 billion, people raise their eyebrows. It is the job of this committee to get to the bottom of that. One could also look at this in another way in terms of Eir pulling out of the tendering process in 2017. Did Eir not get what it wanted at that stage? It was allowed to cherry-pick the 300,000 most...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I appreciate that but even people working within Eir agree that under-investment makes it difficult to get simple matters fixed, for example, wires hanging from poles or poles that have been half knocked over. The lack of investment is very visible in rural Ireland outside the 300,000 homes. How much is Eir getting for the use of the poles and ducts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Is Eir already getting one third of the total State subsidy for using the existing network?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Would Eir not have to do that work anyway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: It is hardly commercially viable going on those figures. Who is the main shareholder of Eir?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Okay. In 2016, the public spending code benchmark figure for the deal we are talking about was set at €800 million and today's State subsidy stands at €2.97 billion. Is it not fair to say that the reason for the cost to the taxpayer spiralling out of control was, in fact, a consequence of the deal that Eir secured with Fine Gael in 2017 to provide services to the 300,000...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Ms Lennon will forgive me if I do not have ultimate confidence in KPMG, particularly when we talk about Carillion and many other organisations. Last week, the Government's technical advisers on the national broadband plan discussed with this committee the most significant factors behind the State subsidy multiplying from €800 million to €3 billion. They gave two reasons for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: For the second part, could Ms Lennon speak to what was said about Eir's intervention area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Would it not have been better not to have supplied the 300,000 in the first place as part of the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: There are 542,000 households without connectivity and they are obviously the people about whom we are concerned today.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I wish to support Senator Craughwell's amendment to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Yes. I wish to address the issue of carers. It is time that we cared for the carers. Some 355,000 people, or one in ten adults, are unpaid carers in Ireland. Only 81,071, or one in five, of those carers receive carer's allowance. They save the State the massive sum of €10 billion each year. The Government spends almost two and a half times more on the nursing home fair deal...
- Seanad: Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (26 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, for presenting the summer economic statement. Senator Kieran O'Donnell will not be surprised to hear that I take a slightly different view from him.
- Seanad: Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (26 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I was waiting for somebody to say we were going to have a soft landing. I recall the many times previously that we were told not to worry, that we would have soft landing.
- Seanad: Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (26 Jun 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Really.