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Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Yes.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The name goes with the purchase and we have to come up with a name. There is nothing more attached to it. The name is gone and we have to come up with a name. It can no longer be called Bord Gáis Éireann.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Bord Gáis Éireann.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: As a result of the sale of the energy business of Bord Gáis Éireann the name is gone. The brand is retained by the purchaser and we have to come up with a name. Given that Bord Gáis Networks will remain in State ownership, I am required to provide for it in legislation.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: There is nothing attached to it except the name. That is all.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The situation is that the ESB in all its guises will continue to be regulated by the Commission for Energy Regulation. That remains the position.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: The actual commercial company involved in telecommunications will be subject to ComReg.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: No.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: I think the Deputy was asking if some of the smaller players-----

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: That is only theoretical. They do not have sufficient market power.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: That is a matter for ComReg in the case of the companies the Deputy instanced.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: It is a matter for the ESB, having gone through a public competition, whereby it invited expressions of interest from the industry, to settle on one or more prospective partners. The ESB was required to put it out to the marketplace and whomsoever was free to make application. In that regard in terms of the CWU concern, section 57 of the Act applies.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: I think we should wait until we see what ComReg comes up with. This is a fairly complex assessment for a variety of reasons. Now that ComReg has the agreement of the industry to undertake this pilot project, we will all be much wiser when that data is available. The data is anecdotal. I receive letters on this matter from Deputies and from people in every part of the country. It will be...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: I can clarify that. I have read some of the concerns, but it is ESB workers only.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: I believe Deputy Moynihan dealt with his amendment No. 3 before his amendment No. 2.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Before we vote we ought to come back to amendment No. 2.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: As Deputy Moynihan knows, the delivery of specific broadband speeds to end users is dependent on a number of variables, including the equipment used by the consumer, distance from the consumer to the access point in the network, core network traffic and the capacity of the server being accessed in the case of the Internet. Speed may also be affected by the use of a wireless router or Wi-Fi...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: We can certainly have a look at that. In the context of the planning system, we are looking in general at what community gains can be obtained for local communities, in particular local communities that are disrupted in any way by large infrastructural projects as a result of decisions of the planning system. The requirement to stipulate from whom one might procure services or with whom one...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: That kind of measure has been agreed in the past voluntarily between management and unions in certain circumstances and so on. I doubt we would ever get approval to prescribe something like that in primary legislation. The more projects we can initiate in this country that have a construction dimension to them the better, in the sense that there is a great deal of local labour left...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: Perhaps I could comment further before Deputy Colreavy makes his decision on the amendment. Like Deputy Coffey I understand from where the Deputy is coming but there is a bigger picture here. As stated by Deputy Coffey, by definition the work concerned is relatively skilled. The big prize at the end of the project is connectivity for parts of rural Ireland. There will not be connectivity...