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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: When are we likely to have a decision on this aspect? It has been stated it will be by the end of the year, but when can the process of implementing the connections then start? Are we talking about February and March, or later?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: The commercial operators' argument would be that NBI is getting so many thousands of euro per connection, whereas if those operators do the connections they will not. If those commercial operators have any additional costs, they will not get any more remuneration. I think this is their big argument for not doing these connections. It is extremely important that we try to expedite this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: Regarding the figures we have for the number of premises to be connected, there are 537,000 premises, 1.1 million people, 54,000 farms, 44,000 non-farm businesses and 700 schools. We have dealt with the schools issue. In the next month or two, can we get a breakdown of the numbers of premises connected? There is a difference between premises connected and the availability of services to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: With regard to the issue of contingent liabilities on page 19 of the published report, will the officials give an update on any ongoing legal proceedings which will add to the contingent liabilities that arise? What kind of moneys are we talking about? Where are we on that issue? The other issue is of liabilities that have arisen in 2022. Is there contention to those liabilities? What...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: Is there any issue that has arisen in the past 12 months in respect of which we may end up before the European court? Are there any such issues of which Mr. Griffin is aware that should be brought to the attention of the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: Is a fine likely to be imposed because of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: We have a 30-month period from the time the matter goes through the Commission, the Council and the Parliament for transposition.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: The issue is that we are falling outside that timeline. Do we need to put mechanisms in place to make sure-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: How many items have not been transposed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: Are there two or three of them or------
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: Okay. Have timelines been set for the transposition of those items?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: As regards contingent liabilities in the context of claims, the HSE recently appeared before the committee and an issue relating to the State Claims Agency was discussed. If every case was settled tomorrow morning, it would work out at approximately €4.2 billion. A significant portion of that relates to medical negligence. In the context of Mr. Griffin's Department, what is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: I accept that Mr. Griffin cannot give a figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: It might be helpful to the committee if we were provided a breakdown of where moneys were paid out in respect of claims up to 31 December 2021 so that we can have an idea of the extent to which the Department has had to make such payouts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: We get those figures all the time in the context of the health sector but we are not getting them from in respect of other Departments. As I stated, the rough estimate by the State Claims Agency of the overall figure is €4.2 billion, which is taxpayers' money. It is important that every Department keep us advised of the liabilities that are arising and when agreements are reached....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: I ask Mr. Griffin to also come back to us on the transposing of EU regulations and so on, the timelines for those and the numbers involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Has the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board, WWETB, put procedures in place to ensure that the procurement rules are being followed correctly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: There was also an incident involving the Garda station in Glanmire where the sale dragged on for six years. Tthe OPW ended up having to pay the interest at way above the bank interest rate for the full six years when it finally found it had a binding contract to comply with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Basically, the OPW agreed to buy a property in Glanmire in Cork but there was an issue with the closing of the sale. The sale did not close and it dragged on for six years. Eventually the OPW agreed it should proceed with the purchase of the premises and ended up paying six years of interest. The question raised then was who made the decision not to proceed six years earlier. It was the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: It was raised with the OPW at a previous meeting going back about 18 months ago.