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- 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.
- 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?