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

Brian Stanley: My understanding from answers provided to the committee over the past couple of years - I am open to correction - by Ministers and senior departmental officials is that Eir, SIRO and Enet or, as it is now, Granahan McCourt, were in the game and then the first two bidders withdrew. Obviously, had Eir stayed in the race and won the bid, it would have rolled it out side by side with or in place...

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

Brian Stanley: ...unusual contract I have ever seen. It is a most unusual process. There were five interested parties at the start. Three of them got involved in the bidding process. This entity spawned from Enet. I was told by representatives of Enet that the company's preferred option was for the main infrastructure to be in public ownership. That is what was stated at the time. There were changes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...The Department called into question the financial and technical ability to deliver the project. Deputy Dooley referred back to where it started but it actually started long before that, because Enet was the company in the bidding. Then, Granahan McCourt entered. We have seen all the changes since. SSE pulled out. John Laing pulled out. All of the others who were part of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...there was no competition in the process, and the financial input and investment from that one remaining bidder is very small. Issues have been raised and we have concerns about the capacity of the one remaining bidder to deliver the project. I met people in Enet before this tender process commenced and the principal people there expressed to me on more than one occasion and also to my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...in a tender process. The report states:Following the formal notification of eir's withdrawal from the procurement process the former Minister held a brief meeting with David McCourt the chairman of enet and Granahan McCourt on the 31stof January to confirm Granahan McCourt's commitment to the procurement process notwithstanding the withdrawal of eir. The former Minister advised that he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...and they are now talking about public infrastructure. It is good if we can get on to that ground. We have public infrastructure. We have the MANs system that is owned by the State and operated by enet, which the State now owns. The Minister might confirm the State owns enet 100% since yesterday after buying the remaining 28% share. There is the metropolitan area network, the ESB...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: I will conclude on this. If I was the Minister, I would phone the ESB and have it and enet in and talk to them this week. I would talk to the companies that the State has some control over.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ..., Eir, the ESB and SIRO, and the consortium led by David McCourt has seen SSE Airtricity leave. The John Laing Group, which was one of the companies providing the cash and firepower, is gone. Enet has been relegated to the role of a subcontractor. The Minister said the consortium has been joined by Denis O'Brien, but his company is now going to become a contractor, which is different....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...for Government. The process is in disarray currently. Of the three bidders, ESB-Vodafone and Eir have pulled out. There is only one bidder left and that consortium is basically in pieces because Enet, John Laing and SSE have pulled out of it in recent weeks. There is now only one investor left in it. Was the Cabinet aware that the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (2 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...up against the big guys here. The State and the taxpayer will be casualties as might part of the rural broadband scheme. Is the cost increasing because of the cherry-picking and because SIRO, ESB, Vodafone and several components of the Enet consortium have now jumped ship? Are we not now in a much more precarious situation because of the dropouts? We are caught between two venture...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (18 Sep 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...of people who have been working on the tendering process and the length of time that has been going on. The Minister has only one bidder left in the process. He has no plan B. It is either Enet or he calls a halt to the process. It is not just Sinn Féin saying that. Earlier this year, Professor John FitzGerald, speaking in respect of State contracts, stated: "If there is no...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (18 Sep 2018)

Brian Stanley: Does the Minister still believe he will be able to run fibre to every home? We know that the 2020 target is unrealistic. As he knows, Enet runs the State's metropolitan area networks, MANs, systems, therefore, the State and Enet have been working together. The MANs contract for Enet was extended out to 2030. It has that contract, which was not subject to tender. The Minister has the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...In Laois, 11,500 people commute long distances from the county, mainly in this direction, every morning. The Taoiseach needs to take an interest in the tendering process, in which only one company, enet, is left. It appears to be in serious difficulty. The date for the completion of the process has been postponed repeatedly because it is a legal and logistical nightmare. When will the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Protocols (25 Apr 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...think he will appreciate there is a world of difference between, for example, the Stop Climate Chaos group, which is a non-profit voluntary group, and the likes of Independent News and Media, INM, enet and other commercial companies. SIPO has published a code of conduct for public office holders. Under the heading, "Principles of Ethical Conduct", it states that holders of public office...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The problem with the Minister's position is that he is basing it on the hope that the Enet procurement process will not collapse. The Department and the Government must have a plan B but the Minister has not outlined such a plan. He said options are being considered, but that is within the current tendering process with just Enet involved. Some of the seeds of this disaster were sown when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...project to completion or, as the Minister stated, to bring broadband to almost every house? While I do not wish to discuss in detail the history of the process, the Minister and I both know that Enet did not have the necessary firepower. According to the information available to me, the company has only secured significant financial backers in the past year and is relatively small. I...