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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...a formal procurement process to engage a company who will roll-out a new high speed broadband network in the State intervention area. The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the sse/enet consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high quality,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...is in a formal procurement process to select a company who will roll-out a new high speed broadband network in the State intervention area. The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the sse/enet consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...to those premises in the State intervention area who will not be covered by private investment. My Department’s specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all the relevant stakeholders in the process, including the sse/enet consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high quality,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...in the State intervention area. That procurement process is now at an advanced stage. The NBP procurement team in my Department will continue to engage intensively with all the relevant stakeholders in the process, including the sse/enet consortium which has reaffirmed its commitment to the procurement process.  My Department will continue to engage with the bidder...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...30 January. While this is regrettable, it is a commercial decision for eir to make. The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the enet/sse consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government's objective of providing reliable high quality, high speed broadband to all premises in Ireland. When...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...who will roll-out a new high speed broadband network in the State intervention area. The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the SSE/enet consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high quality, high speed broadband to all premises in Ireland. ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...a company who will roll-out a new high speed broadband network in the State intervention area. The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the sse/enet consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high quality, high speed broadband to all premises in...

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...Ireland as efficiently as possible. While at this point the NBP procurement team has a single bidder following the withdrawal of two bidders for commercial reasons, the remaining consortium led by SSE-Enet is an experienced consortium with international expertise. It has already identified its final issues for discussion with the Department's team and this list was submitted some weeks...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...on 30 January, citing "commercial, regulatory and governance issues". While this is regrettable, it is a commercial decision for eir to make.  The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the enet/sse consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...withdrew from the procurement process on 30 January.  While this is regrettable, it is a commercial decision for eir to make.  The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the enet/sse consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high quality,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...the procurement process on 30 January. While this is regrettable, it is a commercial decision for eir to make.  The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the enet/sse consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high quality, high speed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (13 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 537 to 539, inclusive, together. Enet manages, operates, maintains and markets the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) on behalf of the State and provides high capacity products and services on a wholesale basis to retail service providers. Retail service providers provide services to their customers which include mobile phone users, broadband customers, cable...

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

Denis Naughten: ...points included detailed rationale, risk analysis and background updates. Government decisions were made on an informed basis. In this way, strong State oversight of the project was maintained. The remaining bidder, enet-SSE, has already identified its final issues for discussion with the procurement team. The list was submitted some weeks ago while competition remained in the process....

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

Denis Naughten: ...answer. They relate to the value for money question the Chairman asked and the questions from Deputy Lowry and Senator O'Reilly on the pricing structure and so on. On the question as to whether enet will withdraw from the process, I have spoken with one of the key investors in this, David McCourt, who I believe is from Deputy Dooley's part of the country. He is the chair of enet. He...

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

Denis Naughten: ...have to negotiate with the banks. I know the European Investment Bank, whose representative I met in Dublin within the past fortnight, is anxious to engage and has been engaging with both Eir and enet-SSE. Some other investors are looking at bankrolling this project as well and they can now engage at a much earlier stage. That is the reason I have made the point that it will mean...

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

Denis Naughten: ...it by publicly deliberating on other options for alternative delivery mechanisms at this time. That was a note given to me on that subject for obvious reasons. Deputy Dooley asked me whether enet has the experience. As I have said consistently throughout this process, what we are doing to bring high-speed broadband to isolated rural communities has never been done anywhere in the...

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

Denis Naughten: ...well. We did not know at the start of this process what the solution was and the competitive dialogue procurement process is the way to do that. David McCourt has said publicly in interviews that enet cannot revisit what has been agreed. I will ask the officials to come back with the detail of that. Deputy Stanley is right that minimum speeds have been a concern for me. There are...

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

Denis Naughten: ...to have a preferred bidder by September and we expect that the vast majority of the build-out will be completed within three years. That is the timeline we are looking at. The Deputy asked about Enet and whether it is a retail or wholesale operation. Enet is a wholesale operation and this contract is for a wholesale operator. The entity that wins this cannot retail the product. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...on 30 January. While this is regrettable, it is a commercial decision for eir to make.  The specialist NBP procurement team will continue to engage intensively with all relevant stakeholders, including the enet/sse consortium, to ensure the earliest possible achievement of the Government’s objective of providing reliable high quality, high speed broadband to all premises in...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...Ireland. The Government cannot accept Fianna Fáil's motion on a number of levels. The motion calls for a review of the procurement process to examine several aspects of the tender, including the degree to which it is "inhibiting the participation of suitable bidders”. This suggests the remaining bidder, the consortium comprising of enet, sse, Granahan McCourt and John Laing...