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- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider establishing generic housing designs for local authority housing in order to speed up the delivery of social housing. [24031/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: 976. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the figures for Rebuilding Ireland home loan approvals to date in counties Laois and Offaly; the number of applications pending; and if funding is available to fund those that may be approved. [23744/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the Minister of State and his departmental officials. What has happened is very regrettable. The Bill was well advanced when it was grinded to a halt by a money message. I listened carefully to what Senator Joe O'Reilly had to say. He mentioned that in 20 years we might have technology to remove carbon from fossil fuels such that we could continue to burn them. If we are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have heard about waiting for the Government's climate action plan, but that does not stop any of these Bills from being moved forward. To take just the Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2016, it is mind-numbing how often other Members and I have raised the issue in the Chamber. My predecessor as Sinn Féin spokesperson on the environment in the last Dáil, Michael Colreavy, raised the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: How many times?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I would like an answer to that question. I am sure there is a record of the number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the representatives of Analysys Mason and thank them for attending. Obviously, cost played a crucial role in the procurement process. Analysys Mason is the technical adviser to the Department. What are the key factors in terms of the cost that must be borne by the taxpayer escalating from €800 million to €2.95 billion? That is one of the major questions around this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: We have been told in the past week or so that the overall cost will be in the region of €5 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The total cost will be the €2.97 billion and another €2 billion approximately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: My understanding from answers provided to the committee over the past couple of years - I am open to correction - by Ministers and senior departmental officials is that Eir, SIRO and Enet or, as it is now, Granahan McCourt, were in the game and then the first two bidders withdrew. Obviously, had Eir stayed in the race and won the bid, it would have rolled it out side by side with or in place...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: That indicates that the original cost of €800 million was predicated on Eir being the successful bidder and, as such, the contractor for the work. If another bidder - let us call it Matt Yardley limited - won the contract, it would have to lease the poles and ducting from Eir which owns them and run the cable along that network.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: Sorry, it was the original subsidy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: Subsidy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have just two other questions because I do not want to delay the meeting. In the past couple of weeks, I have been told the cost is now in the region of €5 billion. Dr. Yardley confirmed what I have been told I was wrong about for the past two years and three months, namely, that the hiving off in respect of the 300,000 easiest-to-reach households has materially affected the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: So the ESB network could be used.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: And in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I want to clarify one small point. Had the SIRO bid been successful, am I correct in stating that the ESB would have used its network to roll this out? That was its intention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The doughnut.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The doughnut.