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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wanted to focus a little bit on transport for a moment because it is the second biggest area that we need to try to tackle or sort out. The Minister mentioned rail, and particularly rail freight. While I have heard all of this before, again I do not see the concrete proposals in place to deliver on that. I have raised the western rail corridor with the Minister on numerous occasions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Sligo?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: No freight will go on a greenway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is open to it, I believe.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline on the roll-out of the national broadband, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23756/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cybersecurity Policy (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a timeline on improvement works to cybersecurity infrastructure, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23757/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline on the progression of the Navan rail line; and the most up-to-date estimated cost, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23753/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline on the progression of the western rail corridor; and the most up-to-date estimated cost, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline on the upgrade works for the N2/A5; and the most up-to-date estimated cost, including a breakdown of current and capital spend (details supplied). [23755/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the clash between State exams in Ireland and the equivalent exams in Ukraine; the number of students affected by the clash; and the contingency plan in place for students wishing to sit both exams. [23759/24]

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. It is an issue in every constituency in the country and it is certainly an issue in my constituency in regard to the school dental service. Parents contact me regularly where their children have gone into sixth class and have never seen a dentist and go on to secondary school without seeing a dentist. This is happening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: The reason we invited ComReg and Eir to appear before the committee is the outfall from the recent court case, which the witnesses will be aware of. I wish to look at a few issues it shone a light on. The case, and a lot of ComReg's enforcement, is really about complaints mechanisms and whether they are effective and efficient. The next part of that, which is what people really want, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: On that point, I have come across situations where a provider - normally it is Eir but it may be another provider - goes into a town and provides fibre optic broadband to the houses, all of which have got-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes, where the trunking is in place. That only came into place in the mid-1990s, when it became compulsory under building regulations to put in trunking so that cables could be fed into the houses. Houses that are a little older than that do not have it. In order to go into a housing estate where the houses do not have that trunking, it is necessary to dig up the garden and the footpath to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: There are substantial gaps, and they are not just in rural areas. They are in urban areas as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: My understanding was that when a provider took on a contract to do a geographical area, it would provide broadband to all in that area. Of course, some of the houses would be easily done, while others would be more difficult. Whatever the charge was going to be, it would cover the 50 houses where it is dead simple to drop the wire in, put it through the trunking and bring it into the house....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: That means we do not know the situation for the people who are left behind. They are technically in an area which is covered by the commercial provider but they are actually not covered. We will have to wait years before somebody comes back to deal with them, which is very inappropriate for the individuals who are left behind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is very unsatisfactory, is it not? Certainly for the people who live in those areas, it is very unsatisfactory.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: The other issue I want to come in on is the Eir situation specifically and similar types of situations. One of the issues that arose in that regard was that people being trained in the provision of customer care and so on were given instructions which were outside of what would be considered the regulations. People were being told that unless a caller mentions ComReg or knows their rights,...