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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: Eir is not a shark.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: 2. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will re-engage with both Eir and the ESB regarding the national broadband plan. [28663/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: This question is about the national broadband scheme. Will the Minister re-engage with Eir and the ESB regarding this plan? I am asking him to look again at the current process which, by any measure, is banjaxed. We are looking at a cost differential of €2 billion. Over the past couple of years, an overall cost of €800 million has become €3 billion. Worse still,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. The reality is there are two main reasons for the escalation of costs. One is that Eir was allowed to cherry-pick in 2017 and that banjaxed the process and made it more expensive to service the remaining 500,000 premises. The second reason is that the Government is going with a bidder that has no infrastructure and does not own poles or a yard of ducting...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (4 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected spend on carbon credits between 2021 and 2030. [28307/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (4 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made regarding the competitive dialogue and establishment of a framework agreement for the provision of private ambulance services for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28724/19]

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: I am sharing time with Deputies Ó Laoghaire, Buckley and Jonathan O'Brien. I welcome the motion from Solidarity-PBP in respect of the mail centre. I also welcome the fact that the Deputies proposing it will accept Sinn Féin's amendment. Here we are again discussing the closure of another piece of a vital network in terms of the postal services. A number of times, we have heard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: I ask that I receive just one or two answers to my questions. Some of the questions so far have taken over half an hour to address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: I appreciate also that there are two other members waiting to come in and that the witnesses have been here for two and a half hours. There have been revelations on the broadband plan in the last number of weeks and some of the information that has come out has included stuff we suspected and raised with Ministers previously. Another revelation today was that Eir had held up the project for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: The delegates said a year and a half was used up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: It will show up in the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Mulligan referred to difficulties in negotiating the price of €20 per pole.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: I will look at the Official Report tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: If we just move on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: Regarding the 340,000 premises that are Eir's part of the intervention area, Analysys Mason described them to us as a double whammy and outlined what that meant. First, it incurred a significant capital cost for the State, as the remaining bidder had no guarantee that it would be able to use Eir's infrastructure or that there would be no difficulties in accessing it. Second, the remaining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: Did it tell the Department that it had to allow this to go ahead, even though it would banjax the process for the other 540,000 premises?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: Did the Commission supply documentation to the Department stating this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: It would be the same as if the Government and Transport Infrastructure Ireland wanted to build a motorway from Limerick to Cork and a private entity told them that it would build 20 km of it and that they could not go through that part if they wanted to build onto either end of it. In other words, the entity would hold the ring. That is what Eir has done. I find this difficult to accept if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Brian Stanley: We are in this situation and the summary is that no matter which way it is turned or twisted, this is the major issue that derailed the process and left us with just one bidder and the fallacy that we were involved in a competitive process. There is no competitive process and there never can be if there is just one team playing on the pitch.