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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: The Minister told me it would not make it more difficult. That is on the record of the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: I understand the state aid rules in respect of a private entity that intends to invest in an area within two years. The point I am making is that a private entity was allowed to occupy a space, so to speak, which then made it next to impossible to design a contract, obtain value for money or put in place a viable project to roll out this project and operate and maintain it for 25 years. If...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: The net effect is that we will have two systems running through the 340,000 area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: No one will be connected into one of the systems in the 340,000 area and the second one, the Eir system, will be active within that area. That is the net effect of the way we have gone with this project. On the cost of connections-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Eir informed the committee last week that its proposal was not an offer. It has since stated it could complete the project for a subsidy of between €500 million and €1.5 billion. In its letter it states: "We note that under the NBP plan, where the cost of connecting a Customer is more than €5,000 the customer will be asked to make a contribution." We know that from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: What about the cost to the customer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: In the case of NBI, where the cost goes over €5,000, the customer has to pay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: I just wanted to clarify that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: It will not be negligible in many cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: If a number of poles have to be put across fields, the cost will not be negligible. I am just stating that as a matter of fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: On the overall project, the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, oversees projects costing more than €20 million. In this case, we are looking at a project costing between €2.75 billion and €3 billion. Why was the National Development Finance Agency not involved in overseeing this contract? Its representatives were asked to come before the committee. The NDFA...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is alright.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Given that there was toing and froing with the Department of Finance, and we know that senior officials in the Department of Finance take a different position from the witnesses on the plan, as they have explained to the committee, would it not have been prudent for the National Development Finance Agency to be more directly involved in overseeing this project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: When did its role finish?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: When was that? What year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: They did. They stated it was a very limited role. Mr. Mulligan confirmed that they have had no involvement of any description since 2018. In relation to the overall project, there are a couple of points that are fairly clear to the public and those, such as ourselves, looking at it. One is that the 340,000 premises that have been cherry-picked by Eir, and that Eir is serving...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: 381. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for hip surgery in University Hospital Waterford. [27543/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (26 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made regarding the competitive dialogue and establishment of a framework agreement for the provision of private services for the HSE. [27035/19]