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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: We have heard quite a lot of it already. The Department is responsible to the taxpayer. Taxpayers and the people awaiting broadband may be coming to the realisation that the procurement process is taking such a long time because of the complexities involved. Does Mr. Griffin agree that it is mission creep beyond belief-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: -----to the extent that it will cost an additional €2 billion to put in place a superstructure around a project costing €1 billion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Before Mr. Griffin contests anything, he should take certain matters into account. Are there issues with the 300,000 homes that have been passed, some of which have been connected, under the arrangement the Department had with Eir? Is he satisfied with what Eir delivered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I understand that. I will try to short-circuit things. Eir introduced the notion of a universal service obligation when its representatives appeared before the committee. They cited examples of the extension of a universal service obligation. The State has an obligation agreement with Eir that connects to every home in the country that wants to be connected with copper wire. If the model...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I remain unclear as to why a USO is not possible now. Mr. Ó hÓbáin has said that it can only be used at a later stage where the market has already been satisfied. We are proposing to satisfy the requirement by State intervention. Surely a USO comes into play when it is needed due to State intervention. If we were to leave the NBP aside for the moment and we looked again at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It was welcomed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The truth of it is that, because of the rules as they exist, that could not form part of the policy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It is what the market players gave back, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The witnesses are identifying constraints based on the rules. Those same constraints existed to a large extent in terms of what the Department in its initial documentation could request from the marketplace, but the market came flooding back and said that it would provide fibre to the home. Based on Eir's testimony to the committee last week, it is very clear that, if it were responding, it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Will the Department take a serious look at the USO and prepare a paper for us on the pluses and minuses in terms of the implications? It should do a SWOT analysis on the USO versus where we are at.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: While it may not be in European regulations, as long as we do not breach state aid rules, which are distinct and separate-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That could lead to competition with wireless providers or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Is it worth giving consideration to offering that to the marketplace? Then, if Eir is prepared to step into the breach and give us fibre-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That would be helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It certainly does.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Do they switch often?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Just to be clear, is it only in the event of somebody switching that this cost is incurred?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Has the Department surveyed that area? As part of an altogether separate project, I hear from people about duplication of Eircode postcodes. Farm buildings have been assigned Eircode postcodes. What level of detailed survey has the Department carried out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The Department has not put any boots on the ground to verify that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Mr. Mulligan has just reminded me of a question. If I live in one of the 542,000 homes in the intervention area, why would the State facilitate me with a better level of service? In other words, because there is a lesser cost it will make it easier for me to switch than if I lived in the area of 300,000 homes. I thought the purpose of this intervention was to level the playing field so...