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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: The Minister suggests that an alternative would have to be cheaper. How much of the €2.95 billion State subsidy will be paid to another private company, Eir, for the use of its poles and ducting? We have a network in place. As regards people being left out, the network to which I am referring, that of the ESB, covers every house while Eir's does not, even though it has poles all...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: How much is that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: That is €1 billion of taxpayers' money.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Network (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views regarding the relocation of post offices from town centres to the outer fringes of towns and thereby accelerating the doughnut effect of towns. [21705/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Network (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: What is the Minister's view on the relocation of post offices from town centres to retail facilities on the outer fringes of towns? This is accelerating the so-called doughnut effect which the Government and local authorities are supposed to be counteracting in towns.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Network (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I am well aware of the situation An Post was in two or three years ago. Members from all across the Chamber supported a number of measures in this House to try and retrieve the situation. An Post got a financial injection from the Government to modernise. The protection of the post office network is within the terms of the partnership Government. That is fine but what is happening here...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Network (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: All of those services will have to fit into the new An Post premises in Connolly Street in Mountmellick. Sinn Féin supports the modernisation of the network and the provision of additional services through the post office network. Sinn Féin has put forward various proposals for that over the past ten or 15 years and supported the general thrust of that notion. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has discussed with Bord na Móna plans to develop alternative energy sources into the future and to maintain job creation in respect of the decarbonisation of the environment and reaching emission reduction targets; and the progress made in relation to same. [21704/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the State subsidy towards the national broadband plan is structured over the course of the 25 year contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21702/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the authority he has to control the future ownership of the national broadband network; and the consequences for a company (details supplied) in the event of a sale. [21703/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Appointments to State Boards Data (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of members the State will appoint to the board of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21701/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure that there is an adequate bus service on the Borris-in-Ossory and Mounthrath to Portlaoise route; and when the tender will be completed for same. [21960/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure that there is an adequate bus service on the Borris-in-Ossory-Mountrath to Portlaoise route; and when the tender will be completed. [22056/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (21 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the completion of the N7 motorway road widening works. [21961/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: We have been trying to follow the process and read what has been happening behind the scenes for the past three years. The past few weeks have seen startling revelations. What we have been told publicly by Ministers and so on has not matched what has been happening behind the scenes, some of which we suspected. I wish to ask about governance. I would like the delegates to keep their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: It is a straightforward question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: With respect, they are in place and are appointed by the company. I asked this at the private meeting in the Department the other day. They are appointed by the consortium. If they are appointed by the consortium, they are there to represent the interests of the consortium. If I was part of the consortium and I put eight representatives on the board, I would be clear about who they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I am asking the Department officials what they have at this stage from Granahan McCourt and the consortium in terms of guarantees that the money is in place. Is it simply a letter of commitment that the Department has?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Is that all the Department has?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Is that guarantee written into the contract?