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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: That indicates that the original cost of €800 million was predicated on Eir being the successful bidder and, as such, the contractor for the work. If another bidder - let us call it Matt Yardley limited - won the contract, it would have to lease the poles and ducting from Eir which owns them and run the cable along that network.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: Sorry, it was the original subsidy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: Subsidy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have just two other questions because I do not want to delay the meeting. In the past couple of weeks, I have been told the cost is now in the region of €5 billion. Dr. Yardley confirmed what I have been told I was wrong about for the past two years and three months, namely, that the hiving off in respect of the 300,000 easiest-to-reach households has materially affected the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: So the ESB network could be used.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: And in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I want to clarify one small point. Had the SIRO bid been successful, am I correct in stating that the ESB would have used its network to roll this out? That was its intention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The doughnut.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The doughnut.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have a quick question on the 300,000 households or premises area. On the day of the press conference, a map was handed out and it was very clear to me what would happen. I could identify areas in my constituency, which I know best, where there were clusters of houses and quite a high density of housing for what are rural areas. Other more-difficult-to-reach premises were out the road, up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: My second point-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: Was one of the reasons that the price was too high?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have one very small point of clarification, if I may. Obviously, in terms of using pre-existing poles and ducts, a subsidy would be paid for permission to pass the area. Eir owns the poles and the other consortium, if successful, will want to hang its cables on those poles and run its cables through the ducting underground. The consortium would pay Eir for the lease or rental. Is that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to simplify and speed up the process of approval by his Department for local authority housing schemes. [24032/19]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The question concerns the steps the Department's officials are taking to simplify and speed up the process for approval by the Department for local authority housing schemes. I approach this in a constructive way. I know the Department cannot magic up houses with the flick of a switch. I am trying to come at this from the point of view of solutions. I have spoken to both the Minister and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He referred to a timeline of 59 weeks, but this is not happening before 59 weeks in many cases. Schemes such as those in Portarlington and Conniberry Way in Portlaoise are all very welcome and all necessary, and I know the Department has taken some steps in this regard, but the process is still very slow and very costly. Since about 2002 or 2003...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I am not saying the houses are low-quality. What I am saying is that they are-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: No, that is not the point I made. I said we need a generic template. The Conniberry Way units are finished. The Minister sitting beside the Minister of State opened them. They are of a very high quality. The point I am trying to get across to the Minister of State is that the template for those houses could be used in other counties and other locations in County Laois. They could be...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is the key point.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is what is putting a cost on the Exchequer. Templates would reduce the cost.