Results 601-620 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: I want to ask about technology. Fibre-optic cable seems to be the priority. One hears on the grapevine that there is new technology coming on stream the whole time, and some speak about satellite. Will what we are doing now be outdated in five years? I realise technology keeps progressing but there is talk that there could be satellite coverage. I do not know whether that is probable. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Just yesterday, I received a presentation from a representative from Eir. That representative mentioned the roll-out of the old land lines, which were copper rather than fibre-optic cable. The representative said that if there are good copper lines – many of them are old – up to 80 Mbps or 100 Mbps could be achieved. Are these lines all to be replaced with the fibre-optic...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Are all the copper lines to be replaced by fibre-optic cables?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: What percentage of the population has reasonable cover at present? Have the witnesses those statistics?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Seventy-four percent have satisfactory cover.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: What about the 700,000 who are left out of the loop?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Last week in Carlow, there was a launch by Vodafone and SIRO. This must be cutting down on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: They must be cutting back on the waiting list – the 700,000 we are speaking of.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: That is what the NBP is to address.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Our job is to scrutinise the expenditure of taxpayers' money. The Taoiseach said in the Dáil - I have asked about this a few times - the final cost will be a multiple of the original. Could the witnesses shed any light on that? Owing to the furore over expenditure on the national children's hospital, many believe there is a waste of money. What will the final figure be? Have they...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Are we talking about billions of euro?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Not even an idea?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: So Mr. Griffin is afraid to say.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: The Taoiseach said in the Dáil the cost would be multiples-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: That is more than four times the original.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: It could be four.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: So Mr. Griffin's interpretation of multiples is the problem. Does he still expect an announcement to be made by the Taoiseach before Easter, which is what I asked about last week?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Bobby Aylward: Mr. Griffin is saying it is all systems go at this stage.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (28 Mar 2019)
Bobby Aylward: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of engagement between her Department and the community managed not-for-profit childcare service providers, with specific reference to negotiations for funding agreements and funding rules in the context of recent compliance audits by Pobal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14494/19]
- Beef Sector: Motion (27 Mar 2019)
Bobby Aylward: It is too late for this year.