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- 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...
- 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.