Results 7,601-7,620 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: To be absolutely clear, we have effectively been almost an hour behind schedule all day. We are stopping in ten minutes, one way or another. The others are an hour behind schedule also. I ask the members to be as brief as possible. We have another player coming in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: No, I will call time on this session. Did Deputy Connolly want to get in, briefly, in fairness to the next group?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The logic of what we are hearing now is for the national broadband plan for rural areas, not the whole State. The rural area cover started off as 850,000. Eir has already done 300,000 from that total and we are now down at 540,000. The Department has looked at that. Eir has confirmed that it is now going to upgrade its existing network from copper to fibre and that it is going to take...
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It raises the question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct. Fibre to the home is not being provided for the final section. That is correct and we must be clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Some people do not care about having to sit on the same couch to watch television but others wanted the connection to the home.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: This is the big question we must ask. The State embarked on this broadband plan in 2015 but today there are commercial operators. The representative from Eir made it very clear that if she got permission from her board to invest another €100 million she could take more out of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Today, we are listening. We do not have to agree 100% with everything that is said. Part of the purpose of this meeting is to increase the bank of knowledge for us, and for the members of the public who are watching, such that when we come back to the Department, we will be far better informed. At that stage, we will see about assessing where matters stand. I agree with the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are not accepting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are not accepting everything as gospel.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. Some of us might not be convinced at all. I am not suggesting we are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We thank Mr. Bolger and Mr. Kickham for being at the committee. We are learning. It is a slow process. When we go home this evening we will be far better informed, which was the purpose of this session. The witnesses are here voluntarily and are running their own businesses. I wish them well in their own businesses, and they say best of luck to the national broadband plan also. There is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank our guests. We shall suspend while the next group of witnesses take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will resume our engagement with broadband providers. We have been busy all day meeting a number of groups. I welcome Enet, and thank its representatives for being here. They are here voluntarily to assist the committee and to provide information to us. We are here to listen and learn. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment appeared before this committee some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: He probably knows a little bit more than the rest of us. We decided that we needed to inform ourselves, and we are pleased to have so many people appearing before us today. We thank them all for coming. All of the information we are using and gathering will be distilled in due course. When we speak to the Department about the national broadband plan and other issues we will be far better...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it, but if Mr. McCarthy is talking about this statement, which looks like it would take ten minutes, we are happy for him to read it into the record. Everyone watching will want to hear what he has to say. It is fine for us; we have the opening statement in front of us. However, it is no good if we have the document while the people watching do not know what is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: For clarification, Mr. McCarthy said that Enet was a subcontractor to the bidder, NBI. Who is NBI?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Enet is only a subcontractor, even though the bid has your name on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy is saying the Irish Infrastructure Fund has purchased a 78% stake in Enet from Granahan McCourt.