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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is in the Vote.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am fine with that. When I saw it was a fund, I wondered was it in a separate account completely, as the environment fund is, but it is not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: What is the situation regarding the energy efficiency national fund and the carbon levy revenue fund? They are dealt with in paragraph 7.2 on that page.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is that a separate account?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Griffin might send an information note on that to the committee because it is noted there and these are new accounts to me.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Minister had a 45.7% shareholding in the carbon levy fund. When the fund was closed, who were the private shareholders who got the balance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: No, I am talking about the carbon levy fund. The Government provided €35 million from the carbon levy revenue fund.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The accounts note that net assets attributable to holders of redeemable shares stood at €5 million on 31 March 2016. At that point, the Minister held 45.7% of the total shareholding of the fund. Who owned the balance? Is that the new fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Griffin was dealing with the carbon levy fund and this followed after it and, therefore, I thought it related to that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Mr. Griffin need not give me the final accounts. In respect of the 2016 annual report, Mr. Griffin must be tired discussing broadband but mobile phone signals are also an issue. I do not have a mobile phone signal from any operator in my constituency office or my house. At either location, I have to walk out to the garden or to the side of the road in order to receive a phone call....

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. What can the Department do in this regard? Mr. Griffin must be aware that mobile phone signal quality varies and is poor in some areas, including busy locations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Griffin send me a note on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: He will understand that the mobile phone signal is very poor in many areas.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We hear a great deal about broadband but we do not have the basics. We have been informed that another mast is required. While masts were highly controversial a decade ago, I have not seen-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We all understand that. I have not seen any new masts being erected in the past five years. While the old permissions are being renewed, there does not appear to be an appetite to fill the gaps. The companies are throwing the issue back on the State by asking to use State infrastructure rather than spending a few bob of their own money. Cybersecurity is an emerging theme. There have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: What is the Department's role? Is Mr. Griffin the man, so to speak, when it comes to protecting our cybersecurity?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: What kind of money?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Griffin referring to the Department's Estimate for 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: When is the Estimate expected to go to committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
(9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I presume it will be soon.

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