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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I will move to the next matter Ms Connolly mentioned, namely, the project reappraisal. I cannot understand how Ms Connolly went through a reappraisal of the project. Perhaps it was a separate group within the company. The project reappraisal was carried out in May 2019. Was it carried out by Ms Connolly's team or a separate team?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Ms Connolly's team was reappraising the state of play, effectively. Would it be fair to say Ms Connolly felt somewhat compelled to follow through on what she had proposed in her original documentation, the ownership report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Did KPMG assess the risk of a failure by Granahan McCourt to meet its contract obligations and the impact that would have on the roll-out of broadband to 542,000 premises throughout the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that the taxpayer is protected in the event of failure. The Department and the Minister have been at pains to point out that no moneys will be transferred until work is completed but I am also mindful of those citizens who are waiting for broadband and how any failure of the company will adversely affect the broadband roll-out period. KPMG examined a number of alternatives and, on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Ms Connolly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: On the issue of the terminal value, I am a little confused. Ms Connolly did not give a figure in that regard but she seemed to suggest it would be a function of the revenue-generating potential at the end of the 25-year period. The assumption throughout is that by the end of the contract 80% of the people in that intervention area will have signed up at, as we understand it, €30 per...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: We have been able to make assumptions along the way. We had the regulator before the committee prior to Ms Connolly's coming before us. We know the cost involved. We know what the ducts and poles will cost. There is an assumption that 80% of people will sign up at €30 per premises. Ms Connolly indicated, based on the submissions made by Eir and Granahan McCourt, that she knows all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Will Ms Connolly help me with the commercial sensitivity? The Minister also seems to hide behind it. We are not in an active competitive environment. There is only one bidder. Who would benefit from the revelation of that figure now, other than we who are trying to take a decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: With respect, we have been challenged by the Taoiseach to support, or otherwise, this contract and we have asked for these hearings in order that we can make a value judgment on what is before us. If Ms Connolly is suggesting to us that she cannot provide information because she is concerned about what might happen in another jurisdiction, we cannot accept that. That does not amount to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: With respect to Ms Connolly, she introduced herself as head of corporate finance at KPMG. Surely in that role she is able to do that calculation for us today. I am not holding her to what the cost will be in 25 years because indexation comes into play, but I am asking, in today's terms, based on the costs we do know and which Ms Connolly was at pains to tell us she was aware of and based on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That is absolutely fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: If the Department has that number, we will go after it for it. I recognise that Ms Connolly would have to retain it as confidential. I thought she was suggesting it could not be calculated.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (11 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures taken by the Revenue Commissioners to publicise the change in VAT arrangements introduced in the Finance Act 2012 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23199/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Approvals (11 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: 758. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for the issuance of the oil exploration licence off the coast of County Kerry in view of the declaration by Dáil Éireann of a climate emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23484/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (11 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: 777. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the cost estimates provided for the national broadband plan by companies (details supplied); the reasons identified for the gap in the estimates provided by these companies and the bidders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24232/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I thank our guests for their presentation. It is helpful that they have set out their involvement in the engagement so far. Has Analysys Mason provided any advice or assistance to Granahan McCourt Capital at any stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Is it fair to say that it has advised most telecommunications operators at some point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It would not be unusual for Analysys Mason to have engagement with a company of standing in the telecommunications sector.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Just last week, KPMG contended that its original costings were out of sync to the tune of €1 billion. It seemed to segue out of that analysis based on technical information that Analysys Mason had provided. Is it fair to assume that this related to the reappraisal of the job at hand as a result of the parallel overlay of fibre that was mentioned in response to Deputy Stanley?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Did Analysys Mason have a role in the soft costs, or the subsidy?