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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will Mr. Fahy comment on the costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I appreciate the presentation very much. On the auctioning of the 3.6 GHz spectrum, how many underbidders were there? Can the witnesses give us details as to how many of them there were and who they were? Mr. Fahy is shaking his head.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Were there any other underbidders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Could I use a freedom of information request? How do I find that out? How do we assess whether ComReg got a good price if I do not know whether there was another bidder?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is true. We are interested in public assets. Our job is to make sure that we get a good return for any public assets. That is important. I put the question because one when looks at the process, four of the existing players are continuing to operate and there is one new player. I do not know what spectrum Airspan holds. I was frantically trying to check on my own 4G service. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am just making the point that I do not see any new big operator. Perhaps there is not one. Perhaps three operators and Imagine are all we are going to get. I might pursue other means to get this information because it seems that we cannot get details on whether there were underbidders. It is important. I have just come out of a meeting of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am slightly concerned because I expected the answer to be a ringing yes, because a regulator's job is to ensure competition in the market. In a sense Mr. Fahy has raised real concerns that we do not. I might mark that because if we do not have competition that is an issue. When I was looking at the investment figures, somewhere in our pile of data, we invested something like €3...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: If I may I will ask a short sharp question. Are we setting any of the 3.6 GHz spectrum, or indeed the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum, aside for innovative testing? I remember in the past-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We have not set aside any of the 3.6 GHz spectrum for innovative testing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: On a second question with regard to competition, I was interested in ComReg's involvement in the bidding process for the national broadband plan. Which of the three bidders is selected must be the ultimate question of competition. I know it will be divided into two parts of the country. I am particularly interested in that question because the latest digital economy and society index shows...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The European Commission recently produced a survey relating to the digital economy and society index. It concluded that we are 24th in Europe when it comes to digital skills. Who is responsible in the State for the development of digital skills? Why are we 24th out of 28 countries in terms of digital skills? Do our guests agree that this is probably important? We always concentrate on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Whose job is it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am glad the council has been reconvened and will meet tomorrow and I am also glad that it is smaller. I propose that it address the way we make a just transition to a low-carbon economy. Deputy Micheál Martin raised the issue of peat workers in Littleton who are losing their jobs and there is an opportunity here to use our partnership model to bring people together in order to manage...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the National Economic and Social Council will take place. [24358/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: In my mind there was not much of a plan; it is a bit rich that the man who killed the metro would claim he is going to be the great one who will bring it back. I wish to ask the Taoiseach a separate question regarding the national climate dialogue on climate change. Last night's debate on RTE's "Claire Byrne Live" showed the environmental community's deep frustration that we have not had...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I have to go to the Dáil shortly to ask a question of the Taoiseach but I will be back.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Brexit is a centre stage at the moment. The visit of our negotiator, Mr. Michel Barnier, two weeks ago left me even more concerned. I can hear the water tumbling over the cliff edge. It is no secret that Mr. Barnier indicated there would be great flexibility in the movement of people. What I heard in the visit and subsequently is that there would be no flexibility in regard to services and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The negotiations could crash this summer.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: What happens in those circumstances? If Mr. Davis is correct, if the British do not agree the sequencing of the talks one could see a situation where the British decide to exit the talks straight away.

Manchester Arena Bombing: Expressions of Sympathy (23 May 2017)

Eamon Ryan: As with everyone here, our hearts go out to the families in Manchester and their shattered lives. The sense is it was an evil and calculated act. It was calculated in the way it deliberately targeted the most innocent and vulnerable to try to provoke the strongest response. Sometimes when humanity shows us its most evil, in its most hard to comprehend ways, it sees in return the best in...