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

Denis Naughten: ...points included detailed rationale, risk analysis and background updates. Government decisions were made on an informed basis. In this way, strong State oversight of the project was maintained. The remaining bidder, enet-SSE, has already identified its final issues for discussion with the procurement team. The list was submitted some weeks ago while competition remained in the process....

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

Hildegarde Naughton: ...in several members of the committee together. People may wish to bank some of the questions. I will start with my questions. What guarantee is there, Minister, that the remaining consortium, enet-SSE, will not at some stage withdraw from the process? Can you comment on that? What guarantee can you give, Minister, that the contract price will be fair and reasonable now that only one...

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

Joe O'Reilly: ...happened. Those are the fundamental questions, and everything else is a subset of those questions. I ask those three questions of the Minister but also by what process is he confident that SSE-enet are tied into a pricing structure? They have stated a pricing structure, and I sincerely hope it is correct. The Minister says they will be tied in because of what they put in at procurement...

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

Denis Naughten: ...answer. They relate to the value for money question the Chairman asked and the questions from Deputy Lowry and Senator O'Reilly on the pricing structure and so on. On the question as to whether enet will withdraw from the process, I have spoken with one of the key investors in this, David McCourt, who I believe is from Deputy Dooley's part of the country. He is the chair of enet. He...

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

Timmy Dooley: ...would be better if we identified now rather than trundling headlong into a roadblock in 12, 18 or 24 months' time and being forced to revert to plan B. I do not want to get into a discussion about Enet but I will raise a couple of points with the Minister. Rather than refusing to answer questions on this matter, the Minister stated the company is well funded and capitalised, has...

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...

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

Denis Naughten: ...have to negotiate with the banks. I know the European Investment Bank, whose representative I met in Dublin within the past fortnight, is anxious to engage and has been engaging with both Eir and enet-SSE. Some other investors are looking at bankrolling this project as well and they can now engage at a much earlier stage. That is the reason I have made the point that it will mean...

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

Denis Naughten: ...it by publicly deliberating on other options for alternative delivery mechanisms at this time. That was a note given to me on that subject for obvious reasons. Deputy Dooley asked me whether enet has the experience. As I have said consistently throughout this process, what we are doing to bring high-speed broadband to isolated rural communities has never been done anywhere in the...

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

Denis Naughten: ...well. We did not know at the start of this process what the solution was and the competitive dialogue procurement process is the way to do that. David McCourt has said publicly in interviews that enet cannot revisit what has been agreed. I will ask the officials to come back with the detail of that. Deputy Stanley is right that minimum speeds have been a concern for me. There are...

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

James Lawless: Good. The Minister might revert on the first question. My third question relates to who owns the infrastructure. Is it retail or wholesale? Let us say it is enet, which it appears to be, barring some uncertain and unknown development. If it is enet, good luck to it. On the infrastructure that is built out and the kit provided to the homes in the intervention areas, will enet be the only...

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

Denis Naughten: ...to have a preferred bidder by September and we expect that the vast majority of the build-out will be completed within three years. That is the timeline we are looking at. The Deputy asked about Enet and whether it is a retail or wholesale operation. Enet is a wholesale operation and this contract is for a wholesale operator. The entity that wins this cannot retail the product. The...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...left so by definition, this is no longer a competitive tender process. There is no competitive tension left in this at all. Eir has taken a big chunk of it - the profitable piece - and it appears enet will do the other piece so what is essentially happening is that we are moving from a monopoly network, which means the Irish people have been screwed for years on price and we all know...

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

Stephen Donnelly: I am asking this specific question in the context of Enet being the only bidder left. Why is the Minister appealing the High Court decision to release the concession agreement?