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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Climate Change Policy (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 881. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the recurring weekly meetings attended by either him or the Secretary General of his Department in 2019 at which climate change and-or preparations within his Department to enact a climate plan has been an agenda item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31347/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Climate Change Policy (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the recurring weekly meetings attended by either her or the Secretary General of her Department in 2019 at which climate change and or preparations within her Department to enact a climate plan has been an agenda item; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31340/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 956. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the recurring weekly meetings attended by either him or the Secretary General of his Department in 2019 at which climate change and or preparations within his Department to enact a climate plan has been an agenda item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31344/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change Policy (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 979. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the recurring weekly meetings attended by either her or the Secretary General of her Department in 2019 at which climate change and or preparations within her Department to enact a climate plan has been an agenda item; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31337/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Can we just concentrate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I know you might be getting direction from Fine Gael headquarters on the questions to ask but we might wait until the submission has been made before you do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Blaney for his presentation. He says the legislative framework to proceed with a universal service obligation, USO, in the provision of broadband is not available here as a result of the non-transposition of EU legislation. That is something in which the Department is actively involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Does Mr. Blaney know of any European member state that has transposed the directive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Do member states define the purpose of a USO? If Ireland had not envisaged the national broadband plan, there was no policy intervention on the horizon and we had the tools provided by the EU directive, including a USO, would Ireland be able to define the USO in such a way as to provide broadband for those who did not have it, in other words, for those included in the figure of 542,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: It is accepted that there is market failure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: If the policy intervention was less expansive and had not sought to cover the figure of 542,000 but only to cover 100,000, could the USO then be used to provide a service for the remainder? It seems to be somewhat arbitrary because there is no definition of a public policy intervention. The only overriding principle underpinning the USO is that the rest must be covered, however many it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Approximately 1.5 million premises in the State have high speed broadband, while 500,000 do not. Mr. Blaney seems to be suggesting the USO can only be applied to a much smaller group, but it is not defined.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: For the purposes of clarity, transposition is a matter for the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: It is a devolved responsibility; therefore, in theory, the Government or the Department could set the scale.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That provides clarity. To move on to the discussion we had with Eir, I am sure ComReg will be familiar from media reports with its comments. The delegates may also be familiar with the position taken by the former chief executive, Mr. Moat, in his communications. He indicated that the process had become overly cumbersome, complex and burdensome. Based on what Eir told us, it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: On whether it can be done, at the end of the day it is about cost. A state could provide everyone with high speed broadband and build a motorway to everybody's door if it so wished, but would it have the capacity or financial wherewithal to do so? That is where we are caught.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I mean no disrespect to Mr. Godfrey, but that is as clear as mud. Is that where transposition comes in?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation (6 Sep 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has been informed of breaches of GDPR related to the processing of information for technology companies operating here by third parties by those companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36451/19]

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The lack of trust in the meat processing industry among farmers is enormous. For years, farmers have not believed they have been getting a fair return from the marketplace. In their minds and the minds of a lot of people, the Minister has failed as an independent arbitrator to put in place a regulator that would have brought some transparency to who gets what from every kilogram of beef...