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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: After becoming aware of the protected disclosure in February, that the programme was being broadcast in June and that the committee was investigating it, has CRU communicated in any way with ESB Networks on this issue over the past six or three months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Ms Trant must have some ongoing sense of the matter. In monitoring programmes of expenditure, she must have some mechanism other than having to wait for the end of a five-year period. She must have some way of monitoring, on an ongoing basis, how things are going in the various budget lines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Given this committee's work and the high-profile nature of this case, no one has informed anyone as to what the level of spending is in PR4. How would I find that out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Given that this committee was to investigate this issue, surely it must have crossed Ms Trant's mind to get a sense of the level of spending in the past four years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: It is relevant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: The point I made at the outset is not a minor one; it goes to the core of the issue. There was an OECD review of regulators and, by and large, the CRU came out with flying colours. My experience, as a former Minister, is that one cannot act as a regulator if one does not take the environment into account as well as public safety. If the legislation is at fault in this regard, then we must...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (4 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: 23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the options proposed by Eir will be considered for the roll-out of fibre to the national broadband area by means other than the draft concession agreement. [28479/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (4 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the expected timeline for the development of the north-South interconnector; and the expected progress of the project. [28480/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (4 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: 389. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to implement the governance structures recommended in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action report. [25210/19]
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it will next meet. [26620/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I wish to comment on something Mr. Ó hÓbáin stated. We have had some interesting hearings and many very good presentations, including one from the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that was delivered in private session. From the analysis from Analysys Mason, it was not a long-term vision that forced us to look to fibre to every house, it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: The Department could not even consider fixed wireless, the other alternative, which is also evolving-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: The main reason not to choose fixed wireless is because of the topography of our sprawled development model.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Like Deputy Dooley, my concern is that the Taoiseach has been misinformed. When I asked him about this in the Dáil, he stated that one has to be careful not to disadvantage one part of the country versus another. The truth is that we are giving an advantage to one-off housing. This is one of the concerns of the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I do not have an objection to the fundamental principle that we bring high-quality broadband to every house. I agree with that. We have heard that the reason we are doing fibre is not that it is for the long-term but that it is a sprawled model. The sprawled model is also the reason for some of the costs. An extra 60,000 properties is a lot of additional sprawl because they are outside...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Let us take those two factors-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: That is not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: If Eir has given an incorrect figure, it should correct that. The chief executive of Eir informed this committee last week that Eir could complete the project for €1 billion or even less. I am reading the letter from the Department with the invitation to submit detailed solutions, ISDS, subsidy requirement and alternatives, and it is complicated because there is an absolute subsidy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: What is the Department's least subsidy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: The subsidy might then be €1.7 billion, broadly speaking.