Results 8,101-8,120 of 35,131 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Matthews for all the documentation that was submitted to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the witnesses from Imagine Communications Group. Mr. Sean Bolger is the executive chairman and he is accompanied by Mr. Derek Kickham, chief operating officer. I remind everybody to turn off their mobile phones or to switch them to airplane mode, at least, because putting them on silent can still interfere with recording systems. I thank the witnesses for attending. We have met...
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: When was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Bolger.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Bolger used the phrase "fibre backhaul infrastructure", and although he knows what it is, what is it in layman's terms?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: What does that mean? What is backhaul?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is what is contained in the national broadband plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In other words, the last leg would be achieved by wireless technology.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: With regard to the existing mast infrastructure, would additional infrastructure be required for rural areas where there are still even mobile phone blackspots? How many people would not be able to get the service?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it the size of the screen in front of the witness?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: To receive this, everybody would have to have a cable to the house under the national plan or, under Mr. Bolger's plan, they would have to have one of these things on the gable end.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy O'Connell.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are on the topic of broadband and have representatives of Imagine here.
- 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.