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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let me refer to the big islands. Many of the inshore islands are covered, including the Clew Bay islands. Hare Island, Long Island and other very inshore islands are covered, and there are some connected to the mainland. They will all get fibre. I take it all the mainland islands, including Achill, Cobh and Bull Island, Dublin, will get fibre. What islands will not get a fibre connection...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: These would account for 90%. Cape Clear would be in the same position. The witnesses would have to tell us about Bere Island. Could they tell us today, or inform the secretariat, which islands will have a system other than fibre end to end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The questions that I am being asked are, first, are these systems as secure as fibre? I have no doubt that they are but we will have to look into that further. Second, are they subject to contention? In other words, what happens if everyone gets on at the same time? Third, if this is the solution, why is it not being rolled out around the country to the boxes? Fourth, can we have it so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What Mr. Mulligan said is right. I am not dreaming of stopping what is going. I would not in my wildest dreams. However, what I would also say is that Government has to be proactive, and has to go way beyond where the commercial company is going to go. The Government might have to directly fund it, as it did with NBI, and say, "Hang on a second. If we leave it to the commercial market,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Last week, I received an email from someone running a substantial business on an offshore island about how the Department of Rural and Community Development had committed to delivering high-speed BCPs in digital hubs and schools on the islands. The person wrote that, tús áite do connection points, digital hubs and schools, breathnaíonn sé nach bhfuil aon phráinn le...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The situation does not seem to be quite how I understood it. I believed that that funding could be used for any infrastructural shortfall in, for example, piers, roads, coastal erosion, health, education, power, communications, recreation or community. It could be obtained in all sorts of creative ways, for example, co-funding, solitary funding, part funding, total funding or with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If Mr. Mulligan gave the information to us tomorrow, we would make sure the islanders knew. He need not worry about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Keep going with the big ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They tend to be the same thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are two Inishbofins, in Donegal and Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There was a lot there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we could get those, it would be really useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. O'Brien clarify? It was my suspicion that there has been a massive change in policy and instead of all infrastructure, including social, educational, recreational communications and energy, as well as local authority infrastructure, being in the mix, the Department is now more or less confining itself to piers, roads, village renewal, LIS, which is roads but non-county roads, etc....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The specific issue is whether the Department is looking at the gamut of capital public infrastructure and making sure the islands are on a par with the mainland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be useful to get clarity because there was very little clarity in the islands policy, for all the pages in it, on that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We did not get any great clarity on the mobile roll-out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What does the Department define as a populated area? I deal with plenty of populated areas that do not have mobile phone service, and I am not talking about just one house in a massive valley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but 30% do not live in villages-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When the power goes off in my area I lose all mobile signal so all that is left is the house landline to contact the outside world. Somebody said to me the other night that they have a serious significant illness and they understand that if the copper is gotten rid of that the fibre needs an electricity supply so, therefore, without power one is completely cut off. I suggest that the...