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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On the basis of the protected disclosure, did the ESB find that what Mr. O'Loughlin had been saying was happening with regard to those vans was an accurate assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I only caught the end of the response to Deputy Stanley's question with regard to the leak of mineral oil surrounding the cables in the Dublin area. I will take a very localised approach but I noted Mr. Mulvaney stated the incident under the Royal Canal had not led to any leak of mineral oils into the canal. I understand there was another incident under the River Dodder in my own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Would that have been reported to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Should it have been reported?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. O'Loughlin cited the 2003 groundwater directive and, as I recall, argued that it should be reported. Why would the ESB report it to the council but not to the EPA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I understand what Mr. Mulvaney said about the technical difficulties in finding these leaks. We heard earlier that the leakage rate was 90,000 l in 2003. Was it 43,000 l last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How many thousand litres is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Are those mineral oils soluble?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In the presentation from the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, that we had here the other day, its representatives were citing the fact that in the PR3, there had been an underspend in this subcategory. This budget line was €20 million for that five-year period but expenditure had been roughly €6 million. They were not able to update us on the latest estimate for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It allocated roughly €25 million in PR4 for this project item. We are in the fourth or fifth year of that five-year period. Can Mr. Mulvaney give me an indication of what the spend is to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are pretty much at the end of the PR4 period and to have spent one third of the budget in the last six months of the five-year period would seem to back up Mr. O'Loughlin's contention that this does not get the attention that bigger, easier projects get. This is difficult work

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Mulvaney have any assessment of the rate of leakage in the first six months of this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Okay. I do not want to go into the personal details here. I will leave it at that.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (11 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the rural regeneration and development fund allocated to date; and if a breakdown of spending in each of the categories to date will be provided. [30255/19]

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

Eamon Ryan: I offer my apologies for being late. I have read the ComReg statement. Is there a difficulty with state aid if it can be shown that a state aid intervention makes a process more expensive than an alternative technological or business solution that could be applied? Is that not a risk in this circumstance? We have an existing operator that has real experience in rolling out broadband in...

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

Eamon Ryan: What about the more general position? I presume the intention of our whole regulatory system and the whole European system is in a sense to avoid monopolistic outcomes within technology deployment areas. Is that a fair assumption?

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

Eamon Ryan: I suppose this is a political question in a way. Is there any indication within Europe, where there is a monopoly, that there is a preference for state ownership of such a monopolistic network versus a privatised model? Is Europe blind to that? Is there any guidance as to whether private or public ownership of such monopoly assets is favoured?

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

Eamon Ryan: One of the outcomes of this approach the Government is taking is that it is creating a monopoly for rural Ireland, with large chunks of the country in a future network ownership that will not be undone. Once this contract is signed, that is the monopoly in place and it will be in place for the foreseeable future, even beyond the already long 25-year period. The Government is effectively...

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

Eamon Ryan: For any such supplementary regulation or other regulation, even after the period of this contract, it is very unlikely a regulator would be able to apply stricter terms than had been agreed in the original contract. The regulator would find it difficult to say that it would put the screws on when the company exited that contract.

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

Eamon Ryan: Eir has experience of delivering to rural houses. In its discussions with us, its representatives said the service terms are different and there is a higher connection charge in current area, and there is a dispute over whether the next-day repair percentage is different from the national broadband plan figure. More specifically, however, Eir said that with regard to the provisions for...