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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: My question was on when this was initiated as a Government policy and when it will be concluded. Is Mr. Ó hÓbáin, as a senior civil servant, happy that there has been maximum efficiency in the context of the time lag? Is it appropriate for it to take three and a half years, perhaps four, from the time the Government took the policy decision? At this stage there is only an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I do not want to nitpick but someone who lives in one of the intervention areas - and is part of the 542,000 who do not have high-speed broadband - is not going to understand how Mr. Ó hÓbáin can say it is being well managed. The Department may be dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's but it does not seem to me to be an efficient process. I am sure there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I ask Mr. Mulligan to be specific.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Mulligan for the clarification. Does he not accept then that just having one bidder puts the Department on the back foot? If Mr. Mulligan were negotiating with two or three bidders, it would be clear that everybody was going to make the best effort. With one company on its own, it can say that is the best timeline or that is the best price it can do or this is the earliest it...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Legislation cannot keep up with the Taoiseach's need to take selfies.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: They were statements.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: It is a point of clarification.

Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department's review of the costs of undergrounding the North-South interconnector relative to the cost of overgrounding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7467/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadcasting Sector (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the manner in which Ireland's public broadcasting sector is funded; his plans for changes to the licence fee collection system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7722/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadcasting Sector (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Will the Minister outline whether he is satisfied with the manner in which Ireland's public service broadcasting sector is funded and whether he has managed to advance in any way the proposed changes to the licence fee collection system?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadcasting Sector (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I do not think that the Minister has that much time. He has painted a picture of which all of us should be aware in terms of the situation in RTÉ, but there is also an issue, which I have raised several times and on which I have published legislation, namely, the public service broadcasting element of local and regional radio stations. They also deserve some funding from any increased...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadcasting Sector (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: My recollection of that legislation is that it has no implications for the licence fee or restructuring the licence fee collection system. I am sure it does not. Neither does it address the issue of a broadcasting charge at a broader level. It deals with some minor issues and retransmission is thrown in. Retransmission is an important facet of RTÉ's future funding, but the core issue...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I thought Deputy Stanley would buy it now that publication of An Phoblacht has stopped.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date by which the 542,000 homes and businesses in the national broadband plan's State intervention area will be connected to broadband; the date by which he plans to award the contract to connect these homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7721/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I will begin by wishing the Acting Chairman a happy St. Valentine's Day. I also extend that greeting to the staff of the House and to the Minister, lest he feel that there is no love between us. I ask the Minister to outline, in light of recent developments, the current status of the procurement process for the national development plan. In particular, I ask him to provide some...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Naughten would not be in the Cabinet without him either.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister. Will he confirm for the House that the one remaining bidder has yet to submit pricing details and a technical solution on the work to be carried out? Prior to the Minister's assumption of office the delay was estimated at six months. The programme for Government confirmed, based on the Minister's discussions at the time, that a contract would be signed in June 2017....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: That was at a committee, was it not?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: For clarity, does that timeline aim for a preferred bidder by September? My understanding is that when there is only one bidder, that is the preferred bidder. Is the objective to have a contract signature by September, or is it just the announcement that the main bidder is the preferred bidder?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for that response. I need to be clear. My understanding was that the Minister had effectively achieved preferred bidder status now, and the intention was to have a contract signed in September. If the contract will not be signed in September, and the objective is merely for preferred bidder status to be conferred on the company, then there will be a further period...