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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Will the Minister confirm the implications of the budget for the State broadcaster? I understand that some €5 million has been set aside from the social welfare budget to cover the free TV licence, and some other support. Perhaps the Minister could alert the House to that. Perhaps the Minister will stop giving people to believe that the licence fee can be cut if everybody pays....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Digital platforms are running riot and the Minister has not put in place a digital safety commissioner-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: -----and the Minister is not in a position, in my view and in the view of most people who have looked at this issue, to reduce the licence fee even if he collected all of that €40 million.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: It is the same question. On 18 April, the Minister's diary shows an entry for lunch with David McCourt in Leinster House. I confirm to the Minister that David McCourt had lunch in Leinster House on that day. Whether or not the Minister joined him is a matter for the Minister to clarify to the House. I want to know what the purpose of the meeting was, why it was arranged, whether the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: It was the Members' restaurant.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister has conceded that it was a decision by the Government and himself not to support the post office network. Other countries do, such as the UK, where a public service obligation is placed on the post office and the state provides appropriate funding to ensure post office services are available close to where people live. The Minister is inflicting on vast tracts of rural...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister should change that policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Sometimes when a Minister takes on the responsibility and is afforded an opportunity to make a difference, he or she attempts to do that. However, for the Minister, who represents a rural constituency, to claim that this has been Government policy for decades rings hollow. He could have broken with tradition and moved towards a new policy position in which the State would, in special...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Absolutely. There are people in every community who might need a service. The onus cannot be on the entire community using the service.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: -----play the notion that a bidder has been canvassing him to make it easier in some way for it to get a result. He has politicised a very important process and he has done that himself.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: He could have come to this House and answered questions. He could have worked against Members of the Opposition if they made any charge against him for delay.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: He could have taken executive decisions not this soft approach in which he allowed himself to be embroiled.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a public service obligation for post offices in areas in which these post office are set to close; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41206/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Post Office Closures (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: As the Minister is aware, An Post has introduced a programme for the closure of a very significant number of post offices across rural Ireland. There was an expectation and a hope that the Minister's Department would come forward with a level of support that would make it incumbent on An Post to maintain that network open and that it could have been possible for the State to provide...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: For the avoidance of doubt, the Minister and I were at an Irish Business and Employers Confederation, IBEC, dinner in the Four Seasons hotel with a couple of hundred people. We sat around a table of ten or 15 people. It is disingenuous of the Minister to try to correlate the two events and suggest they are the same. Will the Minister respond to the question I asked him? On 18 April, did...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 1. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41459/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The national broadband process has seen a dizzying number of revelations over the past few weeks that can only be described as farcical. From the significant change in the character and make-up of the bidding consortium, and the Minister's knowledge and involvement in this, to his general meetings in New York with Mr. David McCourt to the sudden sale of Enet on Monday and legal action...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: There are many questions about the Minister's relationship with the remaining bidder. On what other occasions did the Minister meet David McCourt, or representatives on his behalf? Were the meetings minuted? Will the Minister release the minutes of the meetings? What officials accompanied him to the meetings? Did he have lunch with David McCourt at Leinster House on 18 April, the very...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (10 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the monitoring and actions to be taken to address the opening of a sinkhole at Magheracloone, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41210/18]