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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This is all a wholesale access network.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Some of those splitter connections are included as part of the backhaul.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Where is the exchange? Is the exchange a link point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Turning to the traffic from that exchange, where does the backhaul from that go to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Would the service provider have its own connection point from that exchange to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise to the Chair but I just want to tease this concept out some more because it is complex and it is good to try to understand it. I ask Mr. Kidney to think of a county. I do not know where he is from but he sounds like he is from Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is fine. Mr. Kidney picked my favourite county, as my mother and father are from Cork. Where in the county is Mr. Kidney from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Cobh is not in the rural broadband area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Let us move out from Cobh to somewhere in east Cork, perhaps Youghal or beyond it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Let select Glantane. Glantane would probably be in the rural broadband area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Where would the exchange be for that type of area? What is the typical type of town that Mr. Kidney talking about? Is it a village or is it bigger than that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is fine. Cobh is the exchange.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There is a reason I asking about this. Going back to a response to Deputy Stanley earlier, one of the increases in cost was explained as being because there was a need to jump over the 300,000 area. It surprises me that is such a difficulty. As I stated, all of those exchanges are already on the other side of that 300,000 boundary area anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That 300,000 area is very big then and covers a large area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Was that not very clever?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have been talking to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: They got us rightly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have been talking to people in the business who just signed 25-year backhaul contracts with Eir. It is not unusual to do a 25-year deal. If enough fibre optic cable is brought into the country, then the contract to serve a data centre has to extend over 25 years. It is standard business practice in this country to do a 25-year deal with Eir. That is not unusual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: People are doing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: They have done it, however.