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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Let us move out from Cobh to somewhere in east Cork, perhaps Youghal or beyond it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Let select Glantane. Glantane would probably be in the rural broadband area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Where would the exchange be for that type of area? What is the typical type of town that Mr. Kidney talking about? Is it a village or is it bigger than that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: That is fine. Cobh is the exchange.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: There is a reason I asking about this. Going back to a response to Deputy Stanley earlier, one of the increases in cost was explained as being because there was a need to jump over the 300,000 area. It surprises me that is such a difficulty. As I stated, all of those exchanges are already on the other side of that 300,000 boundary area anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: That 300,000 area is very big then and covers a large area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Was that not very clever?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I have been talking to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: They got us rightly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I have been talking to people in the business who just signed 25-year backhaul contracts with Eir. It is not unusual to do a 25-year deal. If enough fibre optic cable is brought into the country, then the contract to serve a data centre has to extend over 25 years. It is standard business practice in this country to do a 25-year deal with Eir. That is not unusual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: People are doing it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: They have done it, however.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Yes, but we have witnessed a major price increase. Why has that occurred? Did the bidder think that Eir would not have the capacity on its backhaul network?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: One part of the scheme that we hope takes off, please God, is a great increase in the Internet of things. We hope to see every dairy farmer sending in his milk figures in via Internet and every child using it to do his or her homework. There would, however, need to be a check that the network has a 25-year capability to cope with the increase in the volume of data that we want to encourage....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: That is more the case now, when there has been a necessity to create its own backhaul, effectively.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I apologise for taking so long but if Mr. Kidney could provide that, I would really appreciate it. What is the use of the metropolitan area networks, MANs, in this tree?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I think there are around 200 MANs. I cannot remember the final number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Are they all being used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: In terms of the cost increases, the witnesses said that when they looked at the atlas of ducting and overhead wires, it led to a cost increase. I presume that means less ducting and more overhead lines. Was that the reason?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Was that because of the quality of the aerial connection?