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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It was before the committee and was concerned that it is not getting a good enough deal. I am always slightly concerned from the viewpoint of the public. Virgin, Vodafone, Sky and Eir are in effect competitors but they are all in the same price bracket. Virgin has a lower price for the first 12 months but the second 12 months is €80 something versus €49. How come everyone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Eir is approximately €55 euros a month for the standard triple play package. I apologise, I was looking at my phone, the way one does in committees. I read it on bonkers.ie. Sky is €58, Vodafone is €54, Virgin is cheap at €49 but averaging it out after the second year it is €55. Everyone is charging the same price. How do we know that as consumers we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I am always nervous that we have three or four large mobile operators all charging the same price. There are three or four large triple play packages all at the same price.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How many staff does Eir have now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Does Eir use the metropolitan area networks, MANs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Would Eir use them in the future if it had to make an investment choice whether to use them or put in its own new ducting and fibre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How many towns is Eir in? There are MANs in 120 towns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: How much money did Eir spend?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is it on a point of principle that Eir will not use the MANs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It was to try to bring in some competition.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I have attended several of the BusConnects public consultation meetings and been glad that the engineers and planners have been willing to change. They have listened to people and recognised that where particular routes were not being served, there was a need to change. I commend them for the ability to flexible in thinking about how the plan might evolve. Unlike Fianna Fáil, I do not...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: That is what I read in it. I wish the Minister was here in the same way that the engineers and planners stayed at the meetings. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, but the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport should be here to do exactly what he expects his engineers and planners to do at those public meetings. The fact that he is not here...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I want to focus on one important political point that has not received much attention. There is a clear recognition that a mistake was made in 2011 when the HSE board was abolished. That mistake must be rectified and Dr. Scally puts that front and centre. I say this because to a certain extent, we must be careful that in our work we do not always view the public service as bad or believe...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I join the other Deputies in congratulating Deputy Clare Daly, her team and the people who have been campaigning on the reporting of maternal deaths. I commend the Deputy on that work. I will not go into the details of it because it is not an area in which I have expertise but I hope they will not mind if I use the opportunity to raise an issue and, hopefully, raise amendments that we will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Data (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of national road projects to be commenced between September 2018 and the end of 2019; the number that will be financed by way of public private partnership; and his views on the public private partnership financing model for national road building projects. [37878/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Dodder greenway project will be commenced; if it will be financed from the €53 million allocated for such projects; and if so, the process by which funds will be allocated for specific projects. [37877/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I will just go further with this point because I believe it is a critical public policy question currently. I shall hypothesise how it could work. I believe that emphasis in public housing particularly should be around the cost model. This has the benefit of retaining in State ownership and there is a future income stream that meets the pace for the capital upfront costs over time. Our...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The per capita budget is rising, mainly for roads that will lead to more sprawl with all of us living in Mullingar and commuting to Dublin according to the Minister of State at the Department of Defence. There is another big capital project that has not been funded and I am interested to know how we do this. Professor John FitzGerald at another Oireachtas committee said that for Ireland to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Or the sale of bank shares is revenue raising.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is the one-off investment in social housing stock.