Results 15,121-15,140 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I can see that and it is helpful. I will move on to the area of mapping. We already know where the MANs are and accept that point, which is a fair one. This is an area that I am concerned about as well. There is other fibre available from the ESB, Bord Gáis, Esat and whoever else. There is more there than we know and it is not mapped. We are talking about double spending. I am big...
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is that for Commission for Communications Regulation, ComReg?
- Public Accounts Committee: Regional Internet Service Providers Association (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Bolger said in his opening statement that the revised national programme "strategy including the Broadband Map 2020 published at the end of December 2015, effectively embedded FTTH as the preferred intervention solution." He said that has never been done anywhere and that there is a mixture of technologies. We all want everybody to have access. Not everyone will want it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: -----but we should at least to make it available to people. I understand that Mr. Bolger has said a mixture of technologies is needed. Am I correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Those technologies are different since the process was initiated in 2012.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Has the business case for the current national broadband plan fundamentally changed? Should it be changed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The business case for the decision the Government took for the national broadband plan that was tendered for. Has that fundamentally changed or should it fundamentally change?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I noted Mr. Bolger welcomed the significant cost reduction that was announced-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: -----in the context of the release of the Analysys Mason report yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What will be the impact of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What is the cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That impact on the end user in terms of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, and the viability-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: -----in terms of people connecting, affordability and all the rest.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In his opening statement Mr. Bolger stated: "With the sole remaining bidder determining the only proposed technical solution, without the required spectrum and absent any competitive tension, there is a risk that the process can no longer deliver its objective...". I refer to difficult to get to places which is where Mr. Bolger sees his technology being particularly effective.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is what is being rolled out purely commercial?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Has the State subsidised the project?