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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Was Analysys Mason's advice all along specific to the technical solutions, the build cost and building maintenance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Were the rates of sign-up, what revenue might be generated, etc, all outside of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: How much of the €1 billion could be attributed to the technical change?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Were any of the redactions done as a result of our guests' desire or instruction or were they all done by the Department? I presume our guests were asked if it was okay for these reports to be published.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Can Mr. Kidney discuss the sensitivity of those costs and indicate how they might compromise the process if they were released now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Why would how they might display their costs elsewhere be of concern to either our guests or us? From our point of view, this is a State contract. We are charged with a responsibility to the taxpayer, so it is for us to try to get to the bottom of the matter. Is it not the case that there is no commercial sensitivity as it relates to this process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The increase in the cost related to the decision to roll out a parallel fibre cable along that network of 300,000 premises. Could our guests give us some sense of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Can they try to explain the cost differential between the purchase of the product that was mentioned, which was some capacity to splice into the existing network of 300,000 on the periphery of that outer wheel? What might the differential in cost have been had they proceeded with the purchase of that product, in other words, attaching it to an existing web?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That is fine, but I still need to probe it. Can Mr. Yardley explain to us why the decision was taken to overlay a parallel network along that network of 300,000 homes? What was the guiding principle behind that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does Mr. Yardley not accept there is potential for that contract to breach state aid rules? On the basis it is rolling fibre past the homes of 300,000 people who have a service, what is to stop Granahan McCourt in the not too distant future from offering a connection service to those 300,000 in competition with the existing commercial provider? If that were to happen, it would mean using...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: How could it be prevented? If a fibre optic cable passes the door of somebody within the area of the 300,000 that is paid for by the taxpayer, what prevents a national broadband company-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: This is why it is useful to have the witnesses before the committee from a technical point of view. Last week, we had a discussion on what the net value of the company might be at the end. To me, the value of the company at the end has increased dramatically given the information the witnesses have provided us with, which is that this is not fibre optic connected to the outer extremities of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: But the network has the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Correct but in doing so-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that but in doing so a network is being built that will, perhaps, pass another 400,000 because Eir has indicated in its rolling out of the 300,000 that it has passed another 30,000 to 40,000. It is fair to assume that to get to the 540,000 premises another 300,000 or 400,000 premises must be passed, paid for by the taxpayer, which we accept is necessary, but it creates a long-term...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: We can follow that up. Moving on to Granahan McCourt, the preferred bidder, Mr. Yardley replied to the Chairman's question on the technical capability and suitability of the company and whether it had met all the milestones set out. We are given those milestones as having been handed down on a tablet of stone from somewhere. When we compare Granahan McCourt with the other two main...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: To be clear, there is no consortium. There is a list of subcontractors identified as partners. It is language that has been used loosely throughout the process. There was a consortium at the beginning that included John Laing, SSE and Enet but over the course of the dialogue, the character and nature of that consortium changed to the extent that at the end the only party was a finance...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: In those cases, the parent company usually is a telecommunications company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Granahan McCourt is not a telecommunications organisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: To move into an area that would be helpful to us in trying to understand costs, with regard to the technical solution, did Analysys Mason consider the balance between fibre and fixed wireless at all? The concerns for us are not only with regard to cost, although that is important. We are also looking at the rate of deployment and the speed at which people can access high-speed broadband....