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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (13 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 555. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount budgeted for the preparation and publication of the post office business network development group report. [7494/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments (13 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 697. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a payment on the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7203/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Can we get clarity on the rules of the House concerning that? Standing Orders can be set aside by the Chairman, if necessary. I hope we are all responsible. We do not want the Minister to give information that might compromise the work under way. It is clear that we have just one bidder but I do not believe the notion of commercial sensitivity, which is normally one of the greatest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Can I get clarity, Chairman? I am a Member of this House since 2002. I have sat on various committees and this is the first time I have heard such claptrap. The notion that somehow if the Minister leaves the officials can say something is bonkers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I know of no Minister who has ever asserted that as an issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Where did this clarity come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I want my questions to be answered in public session and I am not prepared to go into private session. I do not care what kind of musical chairs the Minister and his team have to play to get the answers for me. If the music has to stop, the lights have to go off and somebody has to leave, let us do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister can determine whether he stays in the room.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Can I get clarity from the Chair? If we remain in public session while the Minister excuses himself from the committee, can we get answers from officials today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I ask that the secretariat provide the legal advice behind this to the various spokespersons on the committee. It seems absolutely bizarre that the Minister and his officials can go to a hotel room close to here and hold a public press conference to share information with the national and international media but cannot discuss this in public in the Houses of Parliament to which the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I will ask the questions and I ask the Minister to do the best he can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Does the documentation to date have a price and a technical solution? Has the remaining bidder provided a technical solution and a price to roll out high-speed broadband to 542,000 homes across the State? On 30 January, Eir pulled out of the process. I think this is a game-changer, following the decision of Vodafone and ESB to pull out last September. Mr. Richard Moat, the chief executive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: May I qualify my previous comment? While I stated I would only take answers in public session, I am happy for the Minister to request that we go into private session for those questions he cannot answer in public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: When the Minister reaches a point that he cannot answer the question in public session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Can the Minister answer my questions on the technical plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: For clarity, the programme for Government refers to June 2017 for the signature of a contract with a bidder. The Minister participated in the negotiation and he signed up to it. Now he is saying, and I am using the numbers from last week's presentation, that at best, he is looking at September 2018, for a signature.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: It was contract signature, so the mathematics are fairly straightforward in that regard.

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy is looking for the Minister's second preferences.

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I had the opportunity yesterday evening to outline my deep concerns on the state of the roll-out of broadband. There is nothing between the Minister and me in policy terms; the issue is around the methodology. The Minister is right to say he has provided a considerable amount of information on broadband but, sadly, we have not had broadband itself. I have raised very real concerns with the...