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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: I have a quick question on the 300,000 households or premises area. On the day of the press conference, a map was handed out and it was very clear to me what would happen. I could identify areas in my constituency, which I know best, where there were clusters of houses and quite a high density of housing for what are rural areas. Other more-difficult-to-reach premises were out the road, up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: My second point-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Was one of the reasons that the price was too high?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: I have one very small point of clarification, if I may. Obviously, in terms of using pre-existing poles and ducts, a subsidy would be paid for permission to pass the area. Eir owns the poles and the other consortium, if successful, will want to hang its cables on those poles and run its cables through the ducting underground. The consortium would pay Eir for the lease or rental. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: I welcome our guests from PwC. With regard to the cost, Ms Ball referred in her opening statement to the fact that the benefit should be 1.3 of the cost. We now learn the overall cost of the project is approximately €5 billion, according to what the Department and Ministers have been telling us in the past few weeks. It is €2.95 billion in subsidy and €2 billion on top...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: The most senior official in that Department, who has years of experience, was very definite about that. He did not say it may not represent value for money; he said it does not represent value for money. I refer to the fact that the cost to the private operator, in other words, what it will cost it, was overestimated by €1 billion. It was not overestimated by €10 million or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: PwC is looking at the value for money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: The cost-benefit analysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Value for money, including the cost benefit analysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: That is what I have in front of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: PwC's fee was €2.4 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Strictly in respect of the cost-benefit analysis, PwC concluded that the cost of the private operator would be €974 million. We now know not only that the nature of that consortium has changed, and the funding, but we are now relying on a letter that apparently has been handed to the Department which states that an investor has been found who is good for €180 million and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: I will move on. Regarding PwC's final cost-benefit analysis submission to the Department, it stated: "costs to the state have also increased as the subsidy is now more front loaded". That is surely the case. The first sight we had of any of this was about two or three weeks ago. It is certainly the case that the taxpayer's contribution is front-loaded. The taxpayer is coughing up a lot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: On the cost-benefit analysis and the fact that an entire new network is being built, I expressed concerns on the day of the announcement about the fact that Eir was going to hive off 300,000 households and premises. That figure turned out to be 340,000 to 350,000, out of the 840,000 in the intervention area. I expressed concerns at that time that this would banjax the entire project because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Overall, if the project works out as it is currently designed, we are looking at a subsidy of €2.95 billion and, as we were told recently, an overall cost of approximately €5 billion. The witnesses have said PwC used various methods to examine the various areas that would benefit, such as education and health. There are many assumptions because people are looking forward and...

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: The Bill before us is straightforward and simple. I do not know how anybody could oppose it. It would give hospitality workers, who are low paid and on approximately half the average industrial wage, a legal right to have what is their own. We have a solution. We have a Bill that has gone through the Seanad and it should go through this House also, without any messing. If the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (18 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff employed at the National Construction Training Centre in Mount Lucas, County Offaly; and the courses available there. [25440/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (18 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants that received training at the National Construction Training Centre in Mount Lucas, County Offaly in each of the past five years. [25441/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (18 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: 458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Laois and Offaly approved for home help and home care hours; and the number of persons on the waiting list despite having already been approved for hours. [25435/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (18 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Longford and Westmeath approved for home help and home care hours; and the number of persons on the waiting list despite having already been approved for hours. [25436/19]