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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister have a timeline for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Professor Reeves and Dr. Palcic for attending. The documents and executive summaries they have provided set out a very clear picture. There is very little further to question them on. They have made it clear, using their academic position and experience in procurement, that while the process that was undertaken may have started out as a sound endeavour and there was a certain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Will Dr. Palcic address that issue? One of the reasons given for using the gap funding model was that the benefit to the State would be that the ultimate winner would continue to invest in the technology. Dr. Palcic is saying that because there is no competition, Granahan McCourt is getting the latest generation of technology right now, funded by the taxpayer, rather than being funded from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Department's defence has been that it knew the costs anyway because there was a comparison available based on a submission made by Eir at an earlier stage in the process. The witnesses are clear that the competitive tension would have arisen in the latter stages of the process and usually as part of the final bid price, but that did not happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: If there was greater competitive tension closer to the final point, the level of investment by the company concerned would be greater because that could be scored against.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: If I could come in on the same point, there is a slight variation on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Just to clarify, would our guests accept that the real asset value in this entire endeavour is unfettered access to 542,000 premises and the fact that the company concerned will in essence be paid to build up a pool of customers who will pay, at current rates, €30 a month? Rather than just the cost of the piece of cable or whatever, the value is actually the monopoly access which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Do the witnesses accept that the manner in which the contract is structured is such that the greater the loading of investment by the company in a network that it will end up owning after the 20 years, the greater will be the reduction in the clawback to the State? The clawbacks are meant to ensure that the contractor continues to invest in the network that it will ultimately own. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: We must be careful here. With respect, this is a point of order. We have asked Professor Reeves and Dr. Palcic to come in to talk about a procurement process and give us their views on public private partnerships, PPPs, and how they might be better structured.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There is a line of questioning here that quite frankly would not be tolerated in general terms. I am a little concerned that we are-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There are a lot of unknowns and the witnesses are trying to look at what will happen in 20 or 25 years' time. In terms of the best protection from the perspective of the State, do the witnesses accept that full State ownership is the best way to ensure that the State is protected into the future considering that there is a relatively low level of private capital being invested versus the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There is really no financial benefit for going the other way because the State is carrying such a huge chunk of the cost. On the 300,000 premises, do the witnesses accept that if, as has been suggested, that the notion of overlaying the fibre was to protect the future demands of the 300,000 premises that are already in the intervention area? If any consideration was given to that as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I wish to address the future potential or the future value. The fact that it would have a cable and have an arrangement to go through the area opens up opportunities once one is out of contract in 25 or 30 years' time and, therefore, creates a potential competitive environment against Eir or whoever else is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That is one of the Senator's wiser contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive confirmation of their stamp contribution history for 2019 in order to have their illness benefit application processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24599/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and answers. A cost benefit analysis is quite difficult to perform in respect of some issues because of the subjective nature of the benefits. The costs are always clear but the benefits are somewhat subjective, notwithstanding the public spending quota. This is an example in that we are looking at the potential for the future. Sometimes it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The issue that arose was that a charge was made against the CBA that it was not credible. Ms Ball addressed that, which is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I would expect that. I have a question on the ownership. Ms Ball might be unable to discuss this because it is not her area, but if there are questions she is unable to answer, perhaps she could ask the relevant group to provide the answers for us at a later stage. They relate to the ownership model that has been followed, which is the gap funding model. PwC did work on the broadband...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Ms Ball said a team from the UK advised in this area. Perhaps it could give a view, which might make its way to the committee in due course. The major question for us, which Ms Ball cannot answer, is why the State is still proceeding with a gap funding model when, effectively, it is taking on so much of the risk. There is the notion of the competitive tensions that would exist with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I understand that.