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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister claimed it would be 130,000 homes within a year. There has been another change, therefore, and a further delay.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It is being handed over to a finance company in Boston.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It was not independent.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if projects will be put on hold or cancelled as a result of the additional funds required to fund the national broadband plan; the projects impacted by Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20678/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: 407. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the capital cost of the national broadband plan for each year of the 25 years of operation; the funds allocated for the plan to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20676/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for his presentation. Until today, he had indicated there was a commercial impediment to the release of financial data vis-à-viswhat Granahan McCourt was in a position to commit to. Will the Minister outline what it was or the advice he had in that regard? The next element, following that particular train, is that at about 1.45 p.m. today, or maybe closer to 1.50...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: On that point, what encumbrance is retained on the parent company to maintain that guarantee? Can that company divest itself or change in character or nature over the period of the contract? Will there be a lien any of those entities which were relied upon to get past the post? Will some kind of encumbrance be placed on them through the contract or was it a matter of just getting past-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Can I pick up on that for a second?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Can I take that as confirmation that the Minister's Department did not seek the release of that statement at some point today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: This company was just minded to do so at 1.45 p.m. today in advance of the Taoiseach going to----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Is the Minister prepared to publish a log of the communications that have taken place in recent days between his Department and the company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Is the Minister prepared to publish a log of the communications that have taken place between his Department and the company?
- Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I move amendment No. 3:(a) To delete the words “shall take note of” and substitute the words “declares a climate and biodiversity emergency and accepts and endorses”; and (b) To insert the following after “29th March, 2019”: “and calls for the Citizens’ Assembly to examine how the State can improve its response to the issue of...
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Can the Minister tell us how much Granahan McCourt will invest as capital in the new broadband company?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: If the overall cost is €5 billion, the State is contributing in or about €3 billion and the capacity of the company that will be established to borrow significantly against that and against the asset that will be the contract, it is fair to assume that when one takes in debt and equity, the equity being put in by Granahan McCourt is probably somewhere in the ballpark of...
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Given that the Minister is neither denying nor confirming it, I take it that €300 million to €400 million is in the ballpark in respect of the equity that Granahan McCourt will contribute to this. My assumption is that thereafter, the rest will be by way of debt or syndicated debt. We are also conscious that the project will generate somewhere in the region of €1.5...
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister accept what the Secretary General, Mr. Watt, is saying?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I ask the indulgence of the House in sharing my time with Deputy Cowen, our spokesperson on public expenditure. He is detained at another meeting, but should be here well before the conclusion. I ask that I be allowed to take five minutes and that the other five minutes be retained for him on his arrival.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: There is no difference between us in terms of the necessity to rapidly roll out high-speed broadband to those rural and semi-rural areas that have been promised it for the past seven years. It is imperative that we do that. I agree and recognise the impact of the digital divide on those communities. However, the announcement made in the past number of days is anything but a rapid roll-out....
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Cullinane can beg our indulgence on this occasion.