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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Lovely. The next thing, on a more general level, is the Department's leadership role in the context of the other Departments. What-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What percentage is that number of all the schools?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How many people in the Department have such vehicles?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Griffin has stated we must crawl before we can walk. Climate change presents a major challenge. I do not wish to put Mr. Griffin on the spot, but I wish to see leadership on this issue permeating into every Department.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Chair will give Mr. Griffin as much time as he likes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Griffin to let me finish because I do not have enough time to go through the issue in detail. I wish I did, but I will return to it in the second round of questions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: People are way ahead of us on this issue. Government policies pay lip service to public transport. To take the example of Galway, there is no provision for light rail in the national planning framework and absolutely no recognition that we need public transport services. That is, however, an issue for another time.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Great.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I want to follow up on the matter of broadband provision. Mr. Griffin explained the position on the national broadband plan. Will he give us the dates once again? I have a specific example in mind which has general implications. It concerns an address in Connemara. There are blue spots where there is broadband. There is, however, a house right beside a blue spot which does not have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The man in question runs a business. I understand Mr. Griffin cannot give me a date, although he says it will be three years from now. What is the explanation for it not being commercially viable to provide a service for him?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The two houses are as close as I am to Mr. Griffin.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is because of the specifics of the case.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Griffin is saying it could be three years before a broadband connection is supplied.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Therefore, the State's role is funding a private company?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Department is in the middle of a complex procurement process to secure a private company, or might it secure more than one company?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Where does that fit in with what is already in place? Is Mr. Griffin referring to the metropolitan area network, MAN?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am not; it is set out somewhere in the documentation that the Department provided for the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It works in parallel with the scheme to which Mr. Griffin referred.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The two systems will work together, or, in fact, there will be three systems. There will be the metropolitan area network, the national broadband plan and the private operators.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will return to Mr. Griffin on the matter. On the underspend, there is considerable urgency attached to the matter of tackling climate change. I will not start to quote figures as Mr. Griffin is familiar with them. It is our greatest challenge; everything else pales in comparison. We will not be crawling or walking if we do not face up to the issue of climate change. How, therefore,...