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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: What was that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: That figure is hardly a sanction.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I would hope so.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: In December of last year, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, announced that 679 schools would be connected by the end of 2022. Where are we today with that figure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Connected or passed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Not by the end of the year, as promised.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: The Minister said that, by the end of 2022, 670 schools would be connected.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Some schools will have a fibre connection and others will have the wireless connection.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: There would be no sanctions there either because a decision was taken to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: There is an extra six months. It has been reported that a Spanish investor has an 80% stake in NBI. The State is entitled to 25% of any gain in excess of 25% of the value of the business at the time of a sale. Is that expected to come into play? How much this the State stand to gain?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Given the significant proportion of 80% and the fact that the sale is in process, how does Mr. Mulligan foresee the current ownership structure changing? Has he any idea as to how it would work if 80% is-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: The voting rights on the board would change as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I presume the new investor, with 80%, would have a majority of seats on the board.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I thank Mr. Mulligan.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Budget 2023 (12 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the mechanism by which full-time residents in mobile home parks who pay for electricity calculated by individual non-ESBN meters through their mobile home park operator will receive the three lump sum electricity account credits announced in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50498/22]

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I welcome the chance to speak to this Bill. It is a short technical Bill that will provide the statutory basis to allow the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to increase the aggregate level of funding that will be made to Fáilte Ireland. The ceiling currently is €300 million and the Bill will see it increase to €500 million. Sinn Féin will support the Bill....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: 570. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis that Section 56 childcare organisations which were previously Section 38 organisations, identified as public sector workers by their inclusion in the HSE superannuation scheme, were excluded from public sector pay agreements and pay restoration when re-designated as Section 56 organisations; and if he...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I want to raise first the retrofitting scheme, which has a budget of €8 billion. I am sure taxpayers, along with ourselves on the committee, and the Department would be eager to ensure value for money when it comes to the scheme. The national development plan had allocated €202 million for 2022, but as of August of this year no deep retrofits had been completed. Has the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: The Department said at the start that there was a big uptake for the scheme and that the response was overwhelming. It is concerning that as of August of this year there were no deep retrofits completed. When the Department was doing the budget for 2022, did the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications say it would be able to spend that money?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but did the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications actually say when the money was being allocated that the €202 million would be spent?