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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (4 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 548. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all reports commissioned by or completed by his Department regarding the metropolitan area networks; the author of each report; if the report is public; if not, the rationale in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50190/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (4 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 549. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if following the submission of quarterly reports regarding the metropolitan area networks, meetings take place between representatives of his Department and a company (details supplied); the dates of these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50191/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (4 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 550. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a number of external consultants reports were commissioned regarding the extension of the MANs concession agreement; the rationale for commissioning each individual report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50192/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Scheme Applications (4 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 560. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a time limited grace period will be implemented in situations in which a renewable energy project may miss a REFIT 2 target as a result of a delay in connecting the project to the grid; if not, the rationale for not providing a grace period in view of the need to achieve the target to provide 40% of electricity...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy has a brass neck.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (5 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 269. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the opening of RESS-1 and RESS-2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51097/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister and thank him for his honest appraisal of the current position of the Government and the Department. This committee has been trying to move matters forward in as non-adversarial and non-partisan a manner as possible. The Minister's frank analysis is helpful is assisting us in trying to do that. The Chairman asked the Minister about targets. I published a Bill that...

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister and his comments and the extent to which he has been dealing with this issue since his recent appointment. At the outset, I want to put on the record my genuine disappointment at the lack of other ministerial representation here. It is not a comment on the quality or abilities of the junior Ministers. It says a lot about what other Ministers see as their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome Mr. Smyth and thank him for his report. I want to pull back from the process a little to try to understand the rules of engagement. Mr. Smyth will be familiar with the document National Broadband Plan: State Led Intervention: Communication Protocol between DCCAE and External Stakeholders, a third updated version of which was published on 1 September 2016. Said document sets out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I want to understand if Mr. Smyth thinks these interventions broke the rule to which I refer. There were several meetings. The meeting in New York clearly should not have happened in light of the guidelines. All sorts of flags should be raised when a discussion happens without a member of the national broadband plan team present. It is the only meeting from which we have minutes which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: That is helpful. Can Mr. Smyth take us through what he thinks was happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: There were a lot of meetings. Let us start with the meeting in 2017, which is critical. That meeting involved the discussion which took place at Mr. McCourt's home in the company of another Minister of State, the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment and third person whose name has been redacted. Can Mr. Smyth provide an indication of what he thinks happened at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: They were phone calls. Mr. Smyth did not meet these people face to face.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: This is important. This goes to the core of what it is all about. Were those statements taken under oath?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Mr. Smyth's report goes on to state that he has accepted the word of those concerned. He has done so in the absence of sworn statements. I am surprised by that. Regardless of his process or its validity, Mr. Smyth has tried to get at the truth but has accepted evidence in absolute good faith without people making statements under oath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Mr. Smyth is a process auditor so he has obviously done a lot of this work before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Has he ever had a finding that went against the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Let us return to the meetings. The meeting in Clare that happened on 16 or 17 September 2017 took place when there were two other bidders in the race. It took place in the context of SIRO making it clear that it would possibly not remain in the race. Let us return to what Deputy Smith said earlier. The average punter thinks Mr. Smyth and everybody else involved believes in fairy tales if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: That would be a very serious situation, which would most likely be litigated by one or other of the parties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Mr. Smyth cannot comment on what they might do. However, if the response from one of the participants said that the national broadband plan had been discussed at that event in Clare, the findings of his report would be very different.