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

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

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

Timmy Dooley: Recognising that the ESB is populated with highly qualified engineers, it is pretty adept at assessing risk, and the same could be said of Eir and its technical people. It is clear that this is an enormous project with an enormous level and multiplicity of risk. Based on its considerable experience of stringing cable and rolling out fibre and high-voltage lines, ESB recognised that at an...

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

Timmy Dooley: It takes a Corkman to provide clarity.

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

Timmy Dooley: Mr. O'Leary rightly identified that 300,000 customers will benefit and have broadband, and went on to state it will make the process a little more difficult for the ESB. It is a little bit like the television programme, "Dragons' Den", when the dragons say, "I'm out". The ESB is out. While I do not carry any flag for Eir, the truth is that its investment on a commercial basis will put it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has not been provided with her contribution record prior to 1990 in order to finalise her State pension application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26325/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 310. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) can have an appointment with a paediatrician before March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26064/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 383. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment to see a consultant rheumatologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26290/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 490. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for a hip operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26728/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 587. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next round of home retrofit insulation grants will be announced through the SEAI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26323/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Ms Lennon for her presentation. If we were to take the last home in a ribbon development on the edge of a village, such as Mountshannon where I was born and raised, for example, what service speed would the last home on one of those roads get at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that the speed they get as part of the 300,000 network?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: They will have up to a gigabit. Let us say there are another five houses between the last house that has been served in that development and the end of the road. Ms Lennon has said that for €1 billion, Eir can give all those homes in the intervention area the same service. We will now get down to the micro. The last person in the line by that box is already getting speeds of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The same speed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that the only difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That brings us back then to where this all started. When the State got advice from KPMG and PwC, they advised that the gap funding model was the best way forward because it would provide a competitive environment. Looking at the marketplace, they identified Eir, ESB, and others. They referred to the amount of infrastructure that was already there, and the capacity of the State to expect a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: In effect, what the State and its consultants did in designing this level playing field so there could be true competition, was ultimately at a cost to the taxpayer. We will have had pure competition, but purely for the sake of it, and it will cost the taxpayer €2 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: When the then CEO of Eir, Mr. Richard Moat, wrote to the Minister at the time and said it had become overly complex and onerous, he was referring to the fact that the procurement process was no longer fit for the purpose of providing broadband to 542,000 homes at the best price. All those who pitched in had a level playing field, but in the knowledge that raising that bar for everyone meant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I am clear now on the money aspect, which was a result of the decision to try to have an effective competition, the merits of which are questionable. That is the cost side of it. What does having a procurement process that requires everyone to create a completely new infrastructure do to the roll-out period? What is the timeframe from the get-go to completion? Take the example we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I am going to stop Ms Lennon there. For two years, the Government has been saying that we cannot interfere with the current process in any way. When both Eir and Siro pulled out, I raised concerns with the then Minister, and he said we had to keep going, because if anything was done to stall this process, we would lose two years. In essence, it is the way the procurement process is put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Based on Ms Lennon's knowledge of what Granahan McCourt Capital is offering, though they do not exist in this area of the marketplace at the moment, how long would it take to get service providers onto its network?