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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is the net position. I understand. As Deputy Stanley pointed out, there are other costs. The Department will have to be provided with funding in this regard for 25 years. That is not included in these calculations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That could account for another 25% or 33%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am not telling the Minister what to bid; I am asking that she makes a bid. I understand the value for money proposition, which any Minister has to take into account. However, to have no bid and no interest is, to my mind, a real missed opportunity. I want to draw the Minister back to the key question. Let us put the national monument aside, although it is spectacular, and focus on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 25. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered further the possible purchase of a location (details supplied) by the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24327/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is several months since High Island off the Galway coast was put up for sale. We had a discussion at that initial stage as to whether the State might have an interest during which I set out the benefits of the island’s heritage and important wildlife sanctuary which tells us what is happening in the north Atlantic’s ecology. I do not believe there has been a sale of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: At this stage, will the Minister still consider that this might be one of those unique sites? It is not just because of the national monument on it and that the OPW should have an interest. The NPWS should also have a critical interest in the island. The recent scientific analysis from the island shows it is a spectacularly important location with 4,000 breeding pairs of storm petrels and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I assume that while in the ESB network the poles go across fields, the network must nevertheless be configured around our roads-based development. There would not be the same problem with ESB poles as we would have with fixed wireless in those circumstances as the poles would generally be contiguous with the road. Is that a fair assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We all know about our ribbon-based development and we have been giving out about it for 50 years but the ESB must be configured for a roads-based development.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It would not be a disadvantage to use the ESB poles.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is using to dealing with our pattern of development.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Can the witnesses describe the network? In the case of the past few miles, where does the backhaul fibre start and where does it go to on this network?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does the backhaul start at the exchange then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: This is all a wholesale access network.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Some of those splitter connections are included as part of the backhaul.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Where is the exchange? Is the exchange a link point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Turning to the traffic from that exchange, where does the backhaul from that go to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Would the service provider have its own connection point from that exchange to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise to the Chair but I just want to tease this concept out some more because it is complex and it is good to try to understand it. I ask Mr. Kidney to think of a county. I do not know where he is from but he sounds like he is from Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is fine. Mr. Kidney picked my favourite county, as my mother and father are from Cork. Where in the county is Mr. Kidney from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Cobh is not in the rural broadband area.