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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I thank our guests for their presentation. It is helpful that they have set out their involvement in the engagement so far. Has Analysys Mason provided any advice or assistance to Granahan McCourt Capital at any stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Is it fair to say that it has advised most telecommunications operators at some point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It would not be unusual for Analysys Mason to have engagement with a company of standing in the telecommunications sector.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Just last week, KPMG contended that its original costings were out of sync to the tune of €1 billion. It seemed to segue out of that analysis based on technical information that Analysys Mason had provided. Is it fair to assume that this related to the reappraisal of the job at hand as a result of the parallel overlay of fibre that was mentioned in response to Deputy Stanley?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Did Analysys Mason have a role in the soft costs, or the subsidy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Was Analysys Mason's advice all along specific to the technical solutions, the build cost and building maintenance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Were the rates of sign-up, what revenue might be generated, etc, all outside of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: How much of the €1 billion could be attributed to the technical change?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Were any of the redactions done as a result of our guests' desire or instruction or were they all done by the Department? I presume our guests were asked if it was okay for these reports to be published.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Can Mr. Kidney discuss the sensitivity of those costs and indicate how they might compromise the process if they were released now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Why would how they might display their costs elsewhere be of concern to either our guests or us? From our point of view, this is a State contract. We are charged with a responsibility to the taxpayer, so it is for us to try to get to the bottom of the matter. Is it not the case that there is no commercial sensitivity as it relates to this process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The increase in the cost related to the decision to roll out a parallel fibre cable along that network of 300,000 premises. Could our guests give us some sense of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Can they try to explain the cost differential between the purchase of the product that was mentioned, which was some capacity to splice into the existing network of 300,000 on the periphery of that outer wheel? What might the differential in cost have been had they proceeded with the purchase of that product, in other words, attaching it to an existing web?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That is fine, but I still need to probe it. Can Mr. Yardley explain to us why the decision was taken to overlay a parallel network along that network of 300,000 homes? What was the guiding principle behind that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does Mr. Yardley not accept there is potential for that contract to breach state aid rules? On the basis it is rolling fibre past the homes of 300,000 people who have a service, what is to stop Granahan McCourt in the not too distant future from offering a connection service to those 300,000 in competition with the existing commercial provider? If that were to happen, it would mean using...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: How could it be prevented? If a fibre optic cable passes the door of somebody within the area of the 300,000 that is paid for by the taxpayer, what prevents a national broadband company-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: This is why it is useful to have the witnesses before the committee from a technical point of view. Last week, we had a discussion on what the net value of the company might be at the end. To me, the value of the company at the end has increased dramatically given the information the witnesses have provided us with, which is that this is not fibre optic connected to the outer extremities of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: But the network has the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Correct but in doing so-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that but in doing so a network is being built that will, perhaps, pass another 400,000 because Eir has indicated in its rolling out of the 300,000 that it has passed another 30,000 to 40,000. It is fair to assume that to get to the 540,000 premises another 300,000 or 400,000 premises must be passed, paid for by the taxpayer, which we accept is necessary, but it creates a long-term...