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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the witnesses for an interesting and useful presentation. The presentation showed the retail market becoming more competitive with a reasonable split across the five operators. As Mr. Godfrey said, Vodafone and Sky use Eir on the last mile. Do they use Eir for the backhaul as well? Are they using the entire Eir network in terms of getting that service or do they tend to separate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I was surprised at that. From casual conversations with different operators, it does not seem there has been a huge development of backhaul alternatives, certainly using State infrastructure. What ducting is used on roads? I understand the rail network is still with BT. ESB has a figure-of-eight backhaul network. Could Mr. Godfrey outline why the backhaul was deregulated? What are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: What is AirSpeed using and how do demands connect in on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Is it mainly BT or Eir?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On what is it running its backhaul? What is Virgin physically using? Is it fixed wireless?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Fibre in terms of shipping it around the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On what network and on what ducts and with what infrastructure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: If Virgin or Sky run something from Cork to Dublin or from Sligo to Galway, what infrastructure is being used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Fibre to the home is still very small. Does Mr. Leavy see cable to the home as being equivalent? Have there been difficulties with contention or other characteristics of that cable, or would Mr. Leavy see it as technologically compatible with fibre to the home? Is the small red sliver on the visual mainly part of Eir's access to the 300,000 rural broadband users who are not in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I forgot about SIRO. Lastly, while ComReg welcomes the increase in investment in fixed broadband in recent years, it is quite noticeable that the level of investment in mobile broadband has almost halved. I do not know whether the delegates have an indicative figure for what the spend on mobile broadband will be in 2018. While one can understand, as Mr. Godfrey says, fixed broadband...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The fall in the level of investment in mobile broadband when service I receive is not improving.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Godfrey have any indication of what the figure will be for 2018 for the level of capital investment spend in mobile broadband, given that it has dropped in the past four years?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It was announced yesterday that, as part of the budget process, that the Government has committed an additional €9 million to RTÉ. That money largely comes funding restored to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. That is it, however. We are in a situation where the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, has said that it would be in real trouble if it did...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The Government needs to act first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We had asked earlier whether we could get a copy of the first report from that forum. I believe the Department has made a single report to date. To aid our work we asked whether it would be possible to get a copy of it. The Secretary General from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment did not seem to be able to say whether he could. Will Mr. McCarthy provide us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Could we have that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: A strategic environmental assessment, SEA, was carried out on the national planning framework, NPF, to which the Green Party made a submission. Why was no such assessment done on the national development plan, NDP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Hogan think the European institutions will accept that when they come to meet us and look at what is happening with our climate approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The strategic environmental report recognises that it is strategic in nature and is concerned with broad objectives. It is not at project level like the NDP. There is a completely different context if one goes for project level. I do not think the European institutions will accept it. Three months after the NPF was agreed, the EPA publicly acknowledged that it does not have faintest idea...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Can I give some examples of why I disagree with that? First, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, appeared before the Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport and was asked about its key transport objectives in terms of tackling gridlock in Dublin. The answer was that it was going to widen the N11, N7, N6, N4, N3 and N2, thus allowing for greater long-distance commuter traffic into...