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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: If I could come in on the same point, there is a slight variation on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Just to clarify, would our guests accept that the real asset value in this entire endeavour is unfettered access to 542,000 premises and the fact that the company concerned will in essence be paid to build up a pool of customers who will pay, at current rates, €30 a month? Rather than just the cost of the piece of cable or whatever, the value is actually the monopoly access which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Do the witnesses accept that the manner in which the contract is structured is such that the greater the loading of investment by the company in a network that it will end up owning after the 20 years, the greater will be the reduction in the clawback to the State? The clawbacks are meant to ensure that the contractor continues to invest in the network that it will ultimately own. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: We must be careful here. With respect, this is a point of order. We have asked Professor Reeves and Dr. Palcic to come in to talk about a procurement process and give us their views on public private partnerships, PPPs, and how they might be better structured.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There is a line of questioning here that quite frankly would not be tolerated in general terms. I am a little concerned that we are-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There are a lot of unknowns and the witnesses are trying to look at what will happen in 20 or 25 years' time. In terms of the best protection from the perspective of the State, do the witnesses accept that full State ownership is the best way to ensure that the State is protected into the future considering that there is a relatively low level of private capital being invested versus the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There is really no financial benefit for going the other way because the State is carrying such a huge chunk of the cost. On the 300,000 premises, do the witnesses accept that if, as has been suggested, that the notion of overlaying the fibre was to protect the future demands of the 300,000 premises that are already in the intervention area? If any consideration was given to that as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I wish to address the future potential or the future value. The fact that it would have a cable and have an arrangement to go through the area opens up opportunities once one is out of contract in 25 or 30 years' time and, therefore, creates a potential competitive environment against Eir or whoever else is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That is one of the Senator's wiser contributions.

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Fianna Fáil gives a guarded welcome to this new climate action plan. We welcome the momentum it provides following the declaration of a climate and biodiversity emergency in May. We welcome that after eight years of knowing inaction and deliberate delay in some respects, we have some sort of indication that the Government may be about to treat the climate breakdown with the seriousness...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has not been provided with her contribution record prior to 1990 in order to finalise her State pension application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26325/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 310. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) can have an appointment with a paediatrician before March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26064/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 383. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment to see a consultant rheumatologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26290/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 490. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for a hip operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26728/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 587. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next round of home retrofit insulation grants will be announced through the SEAI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26323/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Ms Lennon for her presentation. If we were to take the last home in a ribbon development on the edge of a village, such as Mountshannon where I was born and raised, for example, what service speed would the last home on one of those roads get at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that the speed they get as part of the 300,000 network?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: They will have up to a gigabit. Let us say there are another five houses between the last house that has been served in that development and the end of the road. Ms Lennon has said that for €1 billion, Eir can give all those homes in the intervention area the same service. We will now get down to the micro. The last person in the line by that box is already getting speeds of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The same speed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that the only difference?