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- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I think it is bizarre that ComReg had no role in the urban areas while Eir is heavily regulated doing a similar type of business making its network available. When Eir is increasing the number of poles that the Department mentions, ComReg will be the adjudicator and Eir is obliged to provide it whether it likes it or not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Eir cannot refuse to provide it. I am looking at the broadband plan from 2015; we have the notes. Reference is made to procurement lots, as in different regional authorities. When Eir started, were there different procurement lots? That is what is in the most recent document from the Department, as if it was going to be done on a regional basis. Did that go out the door during the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: At the moment, are there two separate lots?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Eir was bidding for both. We can ask the other groups what they were bidding for. I did not know the contract could be subdivided into two lots. In terms of the 335,000 Eir has added on, were more of them in the northern or the southern end?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In respect of fibre to cabinet, being so big, Eir is part of the landscape. When it was originally part of the Department of Post and Telegraphs it had these cabinets all around. In some villages they still have the old cabinet and Eir puts in a new fibre cabinet. In respect of the old cabinets that are, say, three miles from the exchange, has Eir any plan to upgrade them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That will bypass the old cabinet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is Eir going to provide a fibre cable to every house in Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Under the broadband plan, is the plan to bring fibre to every house in Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I refer to the broadband plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: My point was that fibre broadband could be brought to many houses but some of the householders might not want it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is similar to the provision of water. Some people have their own water supply. Why run water to a house and then find the householders do not want it because they have their own supply?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. The pragmatic point that many householders in rural Ireland, rather than urban areas, would make is that they might have a pole at the edge of their house or garden, and they might have an underground connection to their house-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The old, copper cable might have been in place for 30 years. In general, many people will have to replace the ducting. Will Eir bring the cable to the house or the edge of the property? What is provided for in the broadband plan? We should ask those responsible for the plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: For example, if they do not want wires over their garden.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We are nearly finished and the voting has taken place. Eir is bringing the cables to homes. We are learning useful information that will help us a great deal when representatives from the Department appear before the committee again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: On my own behalf and on behalf of committee members, I thank Ms Lennon for appearing before the committee. It has been helpful and educational, which is why we asked her to attend. We appreciate her presence and we are grateful for all the information she has provided.
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are continuing our engagement with broadband providers. I remind members and those in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones. I welcome Mr. Marcus Matthews, managing director of the Regional Internet Service Providers Association, and thank him for appearing before the committee. We have met officials from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Matthews. We will move directly to Deputy Catherine Murphy, who may have some questions. I will follow her.
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: This is not using fixed wireless technologies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Matthews explain what fixed wireless technology is? Wireless means "no wire" but Mr. Matthews then says that it is fixed.