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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I have no issue with Mr. Kiely taking a pop at anybody, but has he looked at such synergy? Are they in any kind of discussion? That is what I was getting at, and on the transmission piece as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I am sorry to keep pushing the point on retransmission but it is part of the document, or the heads of the Bill. That is really the purpose of our discussion today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Good cop, bad cop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I thank everybody for their presentations and thoughts at this late hour. My party is here because we see a significant threat to public service broadcasting. There is a multiplicity of reasons for it, of which the witnesses are well aware. We have concerns that the growth of the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Netflix poses a real and significant threat to our capacity as a nation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Zeff. That clarity is helpful. I think there is a willingness, and I would like to see, a greater partnership approach. On a slight reference to what Senator McDowell has indicated, as a society and as a Legislature, we need to define what it is we want our public service broadcaster to be. While I do not disagree with everything Senator McDowell has said, RTE carries two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Perhaps they are watching in Mr. Hanway's head office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Just to get clarity from each of the platform providers, as I understand it, the legislation in respect of RTE talks about "must offer" and "must carry". There are certain opt-outs there. Can somebody on behalf of each group say whether they have to carry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: However, the providers must carry RTE channels.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: It is in a negotiation environment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I hope they are not travelling with Ryanair, speaking of the must-carry option.

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to address concerns that wholesale closures of post offices are imminent; his further plans for the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42100/17]

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: A procurement process has been under way for some time around the national broadband plan. The national broadband plan has been in the offing since 2012. At this stage, could the Minister give us some indication as to the date on which every premises in the country will be connected and can he give us some idea of a date when, or even within a range within which, the contractor might begin...

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I do not have the Order Paper in front of me. If that is what the Ceann Comhairle says, I agree.

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Very good.

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Take two. As the Minister is well aware, there is very significant concern, particularly throughout the vast tracts of rural Ireland, about the proposed closures of post offices. People fear that mass closures are imminent. I ask the Minister to outline the plans of An Post and of the Government with regard to the maintenance of the post office network.

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: That strategic review has been completed for some time now. An Post, through various different guises, has begun a process of closing post offices. Some are closing because, quite frankly, the level of transactions based on the current business model is not enough to sustain the employment of a postmaster or postmistress. They just cannot make ends meet and are being forced out by stealth....

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that Deputy Naughten supported the Kerr report prior to becoming Minister but I have not heard him offer much support for that report since taking office. He is now overlaying the NewEra agency and we have had the McKinsey review. We need decisions and the Minister knows what those decisions involve. We need to decide how many post offices we want and how widespread the network...

Priority Questions: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I would prefer to be on the programme on a Saturday night.

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the procurement status of the national broadband plan; the date by which all premises in the country will have access to broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42101/17]

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I would be happy to let the same question from all three of us be answered.