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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The bulk of them have copper wire going into them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I return to the point that it worked in respect of copper wire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Last week, a particular backbencher suggested that Eir was somehow about to leave the planet and go and do something else. Why would Eir, or whatever entity might be its successor, would not want to continue to operate a fibre network that would be put in place as a result of some kind of arrangement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that not something that could be encompassed in a USO, with an agreement attached?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Why can it not be fibre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: We are back to the point Mr Ó hÓbáin made earlier. During its consultative dialogue, the Department did not call for fibre in the initial request for proposals because it could not do so. However, all of those in the market, namely, the two incumbents and the new company, offered fibre because it was the best investment option from their perspective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: In the interests of fairness and allowing all members to contribute, I will leave it there. I have some further questions which I may submit to the Department in writing and it might come back to me on them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Has the Minister read the agreement?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: They are certainly not committed to Ireland.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: We do not even comply with the Paris Agreement. Ireland is well off its targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister has not even read it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Where was Sinn Féin in 1999?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 369. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with a consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27455/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 387. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been urgently referred to an orthopaedic consultant will be issued with an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27576/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Availability (27 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if the respite facility regularly used by persons (details supplied) has been deemed as respite accommodation for emergency cases only and is not available as a standard respite facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27285/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Applications (27 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) in County Clare will receive grant aid for a bulk tank constructed in 2018 having already submitted tax clearance certs and other required documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27273/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. O'Leary for a very thorough, comprehensive presentation. His reputation is such that I would not expect anything less from him. The ESB delivers electricity to every home in the country under a mandate from the State and is subject to oversight by the regulator. If the State was minded to mandate the ESB to deliver broadband to the 542,000 premises in question notwithstanding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Mr. O'Leary discussed the issues to and fro with the Department on the NBP process. He is well aware of what Eir has stated about it being cumbersome, complex and difficult. Let us go back two years to when Mr. O'Leary was in the thick of it. If he was asked, in a relatively simplistic way, to say how he would deliver high-speed broadband - commensurate with what he was doing in the SIRO...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Mr. O'Leary talked about minimum risk to the Department and the State and maximum risk to the bidder. I do not necessarily want a comment on Granahan McCourt, but if it was known how much was available from the State - be it €2.7 billion, €2.8 billion or €2.9 billion - and that ESB as a parent company would have to commit only €170 million of real capital and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I do not want to push Mr. O'Leary but I need a sense of the quantum of money involved if we leave Eir and Granahan McCourt completely out of it. Is it fair to assume that when ESB withdrew, it did not feel that that level of subvention was available?