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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I suppose that is assuming the company would not be split from the wholesale element.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So really it does not fit with the Government's requirement because it is specifically set out that the interest is only to be in the provision of broadband. What Ms Lennon is saying could not technically happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Perhaps I am not explaining it properly. The NBI's sole interest must be in the delivery. There would be no competition in the sense that it would not be a larger company with other interests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but to be separate was a criterion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So based on the criteria, Eir could not do what it was proposing to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So it is really not relevant in terms of the sum here, that the €1 billion figure is assuming that the rules at the start would be changed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is a completely new model. It is almost cherry-picking aspects of the previous model and saying it could be done for X amount, but that is not what we asked for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: But it is not comparable in terms of like with like.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Ms Lennon said that Eir was applying the same variables to the 339,000-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Eir is layering on the sum from the 339,000 onto the 540,000. I met Ms Lennon at the Committee of Public Accounts previously. Was the point not continuously made that the 300,000 are the low-hanging fruit with easy access? I keep hearing that term. That has distorted the project and the conversation around it. It is disingenuous to apply the same cost per house from the 330,000 to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thought Ms Lennon said Eir was applying the same cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: For €170.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So they will be getting the same standard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: But it is not the same standard. It is a different standard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: To go back to the apples and oranges again, it is different.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: When Ms Lennon was before the Committee of Public Accounts, the Chairman, Deputy Fleming, asked about getting the cable to the door. Ms Lennon said that it was a 50 m drop and Eir's plan was to bring the cable from the pole outside a house to the eaves of the house.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: From that meeting, my understanding was that Eir was running a cable down the road and it or another provider - Virgin, for example - would charge the people in the house for the connection from the road to their house.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is usually €170.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Or waive the charge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The difficulty in getting to hard to reach places has been well voiced at this and other committee meetings. In that light, how does the business model of €170 work? Does Eir apply that rate to even the most difficult to reach places?