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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The company has gone to the market to get new investors so-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I think NBI told us that. We were told that it involved some of its early stage investors who helped turn NBI from an idea into a reality when it was an unquantifiable risk. Mr. Griffin is not aware that anyone has dropped out but they may drop out and NBI is going to the market.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Have the targets for this year been set?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: When are we likely to see those discussions concluded?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of Eir and the potential encroachment subsidy, Eir has been active in the intervention area. We have heard that no subsidies have been applied for or drawn down with regard to that. Was this anticipated at mapping stage? My understanding was that this was an area that was not going to be commercially viable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: In order to make it attractive for people to connect, it must be financially attractive to them. Analysys Mason did a piece of work on metropolitan area networks. There was a lack of transparency regarding the people who ultimately were on the retail end. Is that built into what we are doing here with regard to national broadband? Are we going to run into the same difficulties or have the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The governance in respect of the lack of transparency was a very big bone of contention.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. There was much controversy around this at the time about the lack of the tender being really tested by virtue of the fact that there was really only one tender in the end. People entered into at the early stages but did not proceed to tender. Looking at an academic paper by Gary Healy, Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves, the €5,500 that we are discussing to effectively pass each...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Griffin about the number of consultants involved in the oversight and the legal and technical side of this. Is there anything within the work those consultants are doing that could be done by augmenting the Department? If so, has an application for resources been made? I know this is very different from TII and I accept all that it deals with much larger construction projects. Will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I there anything that was not anticipated in the stuff that is turning up on the risk register that is a real red flag?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I presume the corporate structure and things like that would fall into the risk register and be monitored.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I may well come back to Mr. Griffin on it by way of parliamentary question. In addition to the information which he has undertaken to provide to the committee on the consultants, I would appreciate it if Mr. Griffin provide a note in regard to the changes he spoke about in terms of the number of people in the Department and what has been approved such that we can get an overview of all of that.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which the Corporate Enforcement Authority will commence its work; and the number of gardaí and the rank of each that have transferred or are in the process of transferring to the authority on 7 January 2022. [7319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and or his officials have met and or engaged with a company or its representatives (details supplied) in the context of utilising masts as part of the National Broadband Plan; and if his Department plans to erect masts in conjunction with private entities as part of the roll-out of the plan. [7366/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in respect of the development of a tax saver travel pass that will provide for those that are now in a blended working arrangement that splits time between home working and office based (details supplied); and the date on which he expects to roll this option out for end users. [7158/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in VAT from gas and electricity bills in the past two years to date; and his plans to reduce VAT on energy bills. [7422/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Jury Service (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 380. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons called to serve for jury service in the past five years to date; the number of persons that were excused from jury service for the rest of their lives for the same time period; and the number of persons that were called to jury service but were subsequently excused from serving due to conflicts of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Jury Service (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 381. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances over the past five years to date that members of a jury have reported to the Courts Service and or gardaí that they had been intimidated and or compromised before and or during a trial; and the number who reported same post-trial to the Courts Service and or gardaí over the same time period....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Let me address the issue of private sector investment. Of course it has its place. It is a big part of the solution but it has to have constraints put on it. The Taoiseach stated that he has spoken to a lot of people in terms of designing the solution. I am wondering who he has been speaking to because the solution that has been designed really favours cuckoo funds over individual home buyers.