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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I do not mean to focus on any individual. It is not that one shareholder has the €2 million and gets all the surplus profits and all the other shareholders get the 12% but do not get the surplus profits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I hope people listening at home have not switched off at this stage, if they were listening in the first place. It is for the sake of the committee that I am asking these questions. I do not think any other member has developed that point. I thank Mr. Kelly. From the perspective of consumers and public representatives, the most important thing is to have as much data as possible in real...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That is not just more people. It is also the products that people are using online, such as Netflix, which consume much more data than checking emails.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That allows people to see how good the fibre network is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: There are commercial sensitivities. Retails are taking bigger and smaller margins to get bigger and smaller shares of the market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Volume is what will drive down prices.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: From an urban perspective, is there a risk that the service NBI is providing will be better than the services available in urban areas not covered by the NBP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: There are plenty of services in urban areas providing what will now be provided in rural areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: They are not there yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Are they there for NBI consumers? Of the 5,000 people who have been connected, have some received better services than in urban areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: The minimum in urban areas is what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: The minimum NBI is offering is 500 Mbps. People in urban areas are only using 30 Mbps at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Okay. I thank NBI for all its efforts and wish it the best with the roll-out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all our contributors. I read all their opening statements in advance and have been listening to all of them and to committee members. I am afraid I do not have many new points to bring to the table. I was previously chairman of a transportation strategic policy committee on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and, therefore, I am familiar with issues such as mirrors,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: This is at a time when scooters are not even legalised yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Okay. I appreciate that nobody here, either committee members or any of the witnesses, are necessarily technological experts in how e-scooters work or how they can be geofenced and so on. I think Mr. Fulham referred to geofencing more than anybody else. An operator implementing it can put in rules and so on, but do we know if there is a way of geofencing people who buy a scooter in a shop?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: There is scope for us to ensure that in the legislation. It is in the interests of these companies hiring scooters out per minute, hour or as some kind of subscription service to be bound by all the rules and they would have to make sure of that because otherwise their licence would be taken off them. The bigger challenge for all of us is how we ensure that people who are using scooters...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That again applies to the shared system as opposed to private ownership. If somebody buys a scooter and decides to abandon it in the middle of Grafton Street, those tactics will not cover that. On the speed limit, 12 km/h seems quite low. Maybe it is an appropriate speed. Did that figure come from anywhere? Is there any empirical reason that NCBI chose 12 km/h, rather than 15 km/h, 9...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Would Ms Tinsley see 6 km/h as an exception or would it be the norm in an urban built-up area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That is a very good point as to people having helmets and high-vis and being willing to use that kind of technology and equipment. If somebody is coming into the city centre on a scooter from Blackrock, Stillorgan or Kilmacud and they are going on a road surface, the maximum of 12 km/h seems to be very low for that kind of journey. That is, as opposed to people travelling down Dawson Street...