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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: What has changed between the statement and Eir's tender document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: Ms Lennon stated previously that there were 1,000 technicians servicing it and somebody has to pay for them at some stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: What was Eir's bid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: Eir's original documentation put in for €3 billion, which included rental, which Ms Lennon stated previously involved I am not sure how many workmen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: Those 1,000 workmen will have to be paid anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: They will not be free because it is Eir. They will have to be paid anyway. What if a person were to take that into consideration? Did that €1 billion also include the VAT on this entire service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: I will ask about the original contract for the 300,000 houses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: How big was that contract? How many pages? Was it 50 or 200?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: This is a considerable sum of money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: We are talking about a very different machine. We are talking about having large sums of Government money, our money, going into something and making sure it would be tied up. It is a different machine. Was it appropriate that we should have the solutions that have been talked about, in other words, a comprehensive solution, tied into that legal document or would Ms Lennon have preferred a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: Would Ms Lennon prefer the national broadband company would be set up to run that or for the Open Eir company to run it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: That is probably the issue. We are on about a totally different proposal. The 350,000 homes would mainly be, as Ms Lennon stated, urban homes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: -----in a rural setting, in other words, clusters of houses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: It is clusters of houses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: My point was that the 300,000 homes, in particular in my area, were made up of settlements and large tracts of one-off housing which, meaning no offence, came about due to bad planning in the 1970s and 1980s. If we are honest about the issue, that is mainly what was connected. For example, the constituency I would service is 130 or 140 miles long. It extends to Castletownbere and beyond it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: Quite rural.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: Exactly. However, I refer to places, such as Mizen Head, which are very remote. To give Ms Lennon an idea of what we are dealing with geographically, it takes me three hours to drive the constituency. There is a slight difference here. Are we on target for the 350,000-plus houses to be delivered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: What would happen if we were to retender the entire process? KPMG came before the committee three weeks ago. If I am wrong about that the Chair can correct me. I am open to clarification, but the spokesperson informed us that in her opinion, if we were to start the retendering process and to go through the entire process it would take five years from start to finish. Based on the timeline...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Tim Lombard: I appreciate that time is running out and that we are aiming to finish at 7.30 p.m. Reference was made to an interesting proposal for a universal service obligation. How does Eir think it would work in the case of broadband?