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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Dr. Palcic's criticisms of the project are criticisms that anyone could make. I am not suggesting he does not have an expertise in this area - far from it - but his criticisms are ones which the man in the bar or anyone could make. For example, the man in the bar could say this will not work, we should retain ownership of the network because it will be great asset, take-up will be low, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: What is Dr. Palcic's assessment of the clawback? Does he think it has enough teeth and will it work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Would that be effective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: It would hardly want to walk away from a good product. Nobody is going to want to do that with an asset of this value. If the operator does want to walk away, it cannot flip the asset under the contract. Assuming that after a set number of years it could flip it, the company buying it would have a commercial imperative and an imperative to its bank to keep it going. One could make the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, this is core to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: They are core questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Taxpayers want to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: They deliver an incentive----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Somebody purchasing this company would be similarly regulated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I will come back in later. Deputy O'Connell asked the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: This will be my concluding question or comment. Given the number of unknowns and variables, including the vagueness, which is reasonable in some respects, around the asset's value after 25 years, the likely uptake, and whether the asset will be stress tested or worn out by the company, is it not too emphatic for Professor Reeves to say that "the procurement approach adopted has not satisfied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: But there could not be competition when the other bidders pulled out of the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Have the witnesses costed that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I will ask a brief question before we abandon this. A great deal of the information has come out. Let us say that the witnesses' hypothesis or proposition is that the State-led model would be better. Have they evaluated that model in terms of the cost inputs required to reach the sector of the community that we are trying to reach, the longevity of maintenance and so on? Have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: What did KPMG say would be the difference in start-up costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: At the end of the day, it is all speculative.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Jun 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests and thank them for attending. As I was attending another meeting, I apologise if I raise something that was painstakingly dealt with. However, it is important that people receive very clear answers, even twice to the same questions, as they are very anxious about this issue. I come from County Cavan where it is particularly serious and already depressing the local...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Pobal Gaeilge i mBaile Munna: Plé (2 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an gcoiste. Is iontach an scéal é. Mar a dúirt an Cathaoirleach níos luaithe, tá sé an-dearfach i gcomparáid lena lán scéalta a chloistear anseo. Tá sé iontach. Déanaim comhghairdeas arís. Is cosúil go bhfuil na finnéithe ag tabhairt ceannaireacht mhaith don phobal go léir agus...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Pobal Gaeilge i mBaile Munna: Plé (2 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Sílim go bhfuil sé an-spéisiúil go bhfuil ceangal idir gluaiseacht agus borradh na Gaeilge agus féinmhuinín i measc daoine a mbíonn cineál brú orthu.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Pobal Gaeilge i mBaile Munna: Plé (2 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Sílim go bhfuil sé iontach spéisiúil. Is rud faoi leith é. Níor chuala mé féin é sin riamh, ach tá an-chiall ag baint leis. Mar iarmhúinteoir, tuigim é agus is dóigh liom go bhfuil sé an-spéisiúil. Tréaslaím leis na finnéithe agus molaim iad as an obair iontach atá ar bun acu. Tá...