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

Timmy Dooley: Will Ms Connolly take us through the changes in character of the bidder from its first iteration to what the contract will now be signed with? Has Ms Connolly a detailed map of the changes and why she believes they were necessary over that period?

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

Timmy Dooley: Is it not the case that Granahan McCourt from the start had little or no standing of its own and relied on others? In the first instance, it relied on John Laing, SSE and Enet. All of those entities withdrew from the Granahan McCourt consortium. At some point a company called McCourt Global LLC was introduced or presented some letter of undertaking to get through a certain phase of the bid...

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

Timmy Dooley: Is Ms Connolly not concerned that there have been so many changes? Is she not concerned that companies of considerable international standing have not remained part of this consortium?

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

Timmy Dooley: That is important and I thank Ms Connolly for the clarity. It is a complex project and the companies that pulled out are well used to dealing with complex infrastructural projects of scale around the world. The only company that does not have competence in dealing with such projects is Granahan McCourt Dublin (Ireland) Limited.

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

Timmy Dooley: That is on the back of other companies that have jockeyed in and out at a rate of knots.

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

Timmy Dooley: I will move to the next matter Ms Connolly mentioned, namely, the project reappraisal. I cannot understand how Ms Connolly went through a reappraisal of the project. Perhaps it was a separate group within the company. The project reappraisal was carried out in May 2019. Was it carried out by Ms Connolly's team or a separate team?

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

Timmy Dooley: Ms Connolly's team was reappraising the state of play, effectively. Would it be fair to say Ms Connolly felt somewhat compelled to follow through on what she had proposed in her original documentation, the ownership report?

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

Timmy Dooley: Did KPMG assess the risk of a failure by Granahan McCourt to meet its contract obligations and the impact that would have on the roll-out of broadband to 542,000 premises throughout the State?

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

Timmy Dooley: I accept that the taxpayer is protected in the event of failure. The Department and the Minister have been at pains to point out that no moneys will be transferred until work is completed but I am also mindful of those citizens who are waiting for broadband and how any failure of the company will adversely affect the broadband roll-out period. KPMG examined a number of alternatives and, on...

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

Timmy Dooley: I thank Ms Connolly.

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

Timmy Dooley: On the issue of the terminal value, I am a little confused. Ms Connolly did not give a figure in that regard but she seemed to suggest it would be a function of the revenue-generating potential at the end of the 25-year period. The assumption throughout is that by the end of the contract 80% of the people in that intervention area will have signed up at, as we understand it, €30 per...

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

Timmy Dooley: We have been able to make assumptions along the way. We had the regulator before the committee prior to Ms Connolly's coming before us. We know the cost involved. We know what the ducts and poles will cost. There is an assumption that 80% of people will sign up at €30 per premises. Ms Connolly indicated, based on the submissions made by Eir and Granahan McCourt, that she knows all...

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

Timmy Dooley: Will Ms Connolly help me with the commercial sensitivity? The Minister also seems to hide behind it. We are not in an active competitive environment. There is only one bidder. Who would benefit from the revelation of that figure now, other than we who are trying to take a decision?

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

Timmy Dooley: With respect, we have been challenged by the Taoiseach to support, or otherwise, this contract and we have asked for these hearings in order that we can make a value judgment on what is before us. If Ms Connolly is suggesting to us that she cannot provide information because she is concerned about what might happen in another jurisdiction, we cannot accept that. That does not amount to...

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

Timmy Dooley: With respect to Ms Connolly, she introduced herself as head of corporate finance at KPMG. Surely in that role she is able to do that calculation for us today. I am not holding her to what the cost will be in 25 years because indexation comes into play, but I am asking, in today's terms, based on the costs we do know and which Ms Connolly was at pains to tell us she was aware of and based on...

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

Timmy Dooley: That is absolutely fair.

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

Timmy Dooley: If the Department has that number, we will go after it for it. I recognise that Ms Connolly would have to retain it as confidential. I thought she was suggesting it could not be calculated.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Timmy Dooley: On the related issue of primary schools, I refer, in particular, to the position of school secretaries. The Minister will be aware that there is a campaign seeking appropriate recognition of secretaries in primary schools by making them staff of the State and remunerating them appropriately. The secretaries of schools I know are paid poorly from the capitation grant and they have no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 May 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if 2019 is the first year that junior certificate students can only take their written final examination in no more than ten subjects or eleven with CSPE in accordance with circular 0015/2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23058/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Data (30 May 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students sitting the junior certificate in 2018 that took more written final exams than ten or eleven subjects in circumstances in which CPSE was included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23100/19]