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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Was PwC satisfied at the end of February that the evaluation mechanisms on the benefit side were all agreed? Was its sense that the Department had signed off on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What form did the final communication in February with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform take? Was it a phone call, a letter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Did the Department say that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was happy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: One would never know with the Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Was PwC surprised when it went public some weeks ago that the Secretary General has taken a very strong position on internal communications? A memo for Government is not a small thing to raise such major concerns; it is almost unprecedented in my experience as a Minister. Was PwC surprised by that level of criticism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have questions on some of the details as this is our first time getting them. I believe Ms Smith said the assessment was that there is €500 per household gain from being able to do motor tax quickly or through e-Government. Is that €500 over 25 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is that based on the figure that we are all on the Internet for 8.7 hours per week and 25% of that is productive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I wish my time online was 25% productive. Then one multiplies an average wage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is a massive number, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In that calculation, what account is made that some of that 25% of productive activity - such as paying one's motor tax - could still be done on 3G, 4G or the forthcoming 5G system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Some 12% was deducted so the figure was originally around €580.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How did PwC assess that it was 12%? I can pay my motor tax here on 3G. How did PwC arrive at the 12% figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is PwC in the Netherlands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: PwC said that there was a €120 annual saving from shopping online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is that a saving per household?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How is the saving calculated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have four teenage children. I do not know whether Ms Smith has ever seen four teenagers online shopping. It does not result in any savings in my household - I kid you not. I am told that my children are not unusual in that respect. Is there potential for an increase in expenditure arising from having all those-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: From what does the saving result?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: As such, one gets a lower price.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How does one factor in the displacement factor that our internal retail economy is collapsing, as is evident from speaking to any high street retailer? In the displacement areas in particular, market towns are dying because we are all shopping online. Local retailers have gone out of business. Was the fact that shopping is being sent from places such as Manchester in a parcel and no one...