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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: We can follow that up. Moving on to Granahan McCourt, the preferred bidder, Mr. Yardley replied to the Chairman's question on the technical capability and suitability of the company and whether it had met all the milestones set out. We are given those milestones as having been handed down on a tablet of stone from somewhere. When we compare Granahan McCourt with the other two main...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: To be clear, there is no consortium. There is a list of subcontractors identified as partners. It is language that has been used loosely throughout the process. There was a consortium at the beginning that included John Laing, SSE and Enet but over the course of the dialogue, the character and nature of that consortium changed to the extent that at the end the only party was a finance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: In those cases, the parent company usually is a telecommunications company.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Granahan McCourt is not a telecommunications organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: To move into an area that would be helpful to us in trying to understand costs, with regard to the technical solution, did Analysys Mason consider the balance between fibre and fixed wireless at all? The concerns for us are not only with regard to cost, although that is important. We are also looking at the rate of deployment and the speed at which people can access high-speed broadband....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That is based on cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There has been a lot of talk about the number of sites over the entirety of the intervention area. I am talking about the sweet spot that exists somewhere between 60% or 70% fibre and 30% fixed wireless, which might be used in an effort to get the necessary rate of deployment without it costing more. Dr. Yardley can talk about resilience over 25 years but who knows what fixed wireless...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (11 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures taken by the Revenue Commissioners to publicise the change in VAT arrangements introduced in the Finance Act 2012 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23199/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Approvals (11 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 758. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for the issuance of the oil exploration licence off the coast of County Kerry in view of the declaration by Dáil Éireann of a climate emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23484/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (11 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 777. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the cost estimates provided for the national broadband plan by companies (details supplied); the reasons identified for the gap in the estimates provided by these companies and the bidders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24232/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I wish to ask a number of questions. The committee has previously discussed the 300,000 premises being covered by Eir. My understanding is Eir is charging a wholesale connection rate of approximately €170 per connection, with a further charge of €170 where someone switches. Can ComReg do anything about this? When the NBP is rolled out, there will be an initial €100...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The customer still gets hit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There is 50% profit on fixed-line businesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The intention is to cut that to 6%

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: What about the 20% reduction in operating costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I ask Mr. Mourik to help members and those who await the service to try to understand the reason taxpayers must pay for the use of a pole or a duct, considering that whatever contractor wins this will string the fibre along the poles or put it through the ducts. The contractor will pay for the privilege anyway. Many citizens of the State, taxpayers, will find it difficult to understand why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: People have an issue with the notion of €20 per pole.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: People will find it hard to understand that there is a potential cost to Eircom for stringing a piece of fibre along its poles considering that its own copper wire is already there and the pole must be maintained in good order to facilitate that piece of copper in the first instance. This is an incremental piece but it is hard, from the perspective of many taxpayers, to understand how it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I have a final supplementary question on that issue. Some time ago, ComReg stated that it was paying rebates to some of the auction winners for the 3.6 GHz spectrum. Is that still the case?