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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Therefore, it did have an effect. Will Ms Connolly explain the impact of Eir which owned infrastructure and the ESB which also owned infrastructure being out of the race? Had either of these entities had stayed in the race to win the bid, would the project have been a lot cheaper?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Was the fact that they owned the infrastructure a significant factor? In 2018 KPMG was asked to carry out the reappraisal of the national broadband plan. Not surprisingly, the report concluded that the initial KPMG appraisal was correct and that the preferred model should continue to be the State's and the Government's preferred model. In hindsight, does Ms Connolly believe it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Would it not have been better for somebody else to examine it with a fresh set of eyes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: In the reappraisal report KPMG was asked to cost viable alternative options as outlined by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. Will Ms Connolly explain why the decision was taken by KPMG not to carry out individual financial appraisals of each of the other four options?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: I refer to the reappraisal. There is a section in the report that deals with quantifying the costs of viable options and specified sources of funding. It goes on to deal with the financial appraisal model. It runs to 14 pages, 12 of which have been redacted. There is almost nothing left on those pages. Does Ms Connolly think it would be in the public interest, the interests of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Ms Connolly would have to say the gap was wide. It is €2.95 billion which is a wide gap to fill. That effectively is what has happened. I refer to the ownership model as set out in the contract. After 25 years the company or whoever the company sells it on to will own it. The facts are that the taxpayer will cough up €2.95 billion and that the board of NBI will have nine...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I refer to the commitment in the programme for Government on home help care, with specific reference to the issues emerging in Laois-Offaly. Some people there cannot get home help care and that is delaying hospital discharges. Over 500 people have been approved for home help hours, but they remain wait listed, sometimes for up to seven or eight months. Some of those who are receiving a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Respite care is more expensive. The reason I convey this to the Minister of State is that-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: -----if a home help service was in place, it could be done cheaper over the holiday cover period.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I know it is a challenge but it is a cheaper way of doing it. Respite care is more expensive.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance the policy regarding personal tax credits (details supplied). [22339/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Reform (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will be carrying out a review of the threshold for eligibility for legal aid services (details supplied); and his plans to raise this threshold. [22349/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 343. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to use a cable (details supplied) to benefit communities across the west of Ireland. [22286/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: My first question is on the overall financing of the project. The Minister referred to projected growth but we are also aware of risks including the corporation tax yield from multinational companies and Brexit. The projected growth may not work out. A reply to a parliamentary question tabled by my colleague, Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, on 21 May said that it was estimated that the national...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Minister to deal with this issue and the fact that taxpayers are front-loading the funding.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Could I just ask for clarification on something?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Obviously, the Minister cannot magic up income to fund capital spending. That money must come from somewhere and must come from State income - taxation and other sources of income. How is the Minister going to spend money twice? If he is going to use this pot of money for the national broadband scheme to subsidise this private operation, which the State will not own, he must do one of two...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: What is the Minister's intention? I think the Minister would say neither of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: We have been trying to follow the process and read what has been happening behind the scenes for the past three years. The past few weeks have seen startling revelations. What we have been told publicly by Ministers and so on has not matched what has been happening behind the scenes, some of which we suspected. I wish to ask about governance. I would like the delegates to keep their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: It is a straightforward question.