Mr. Patrick Rochford:

All the various different regulations have to be wrapped up before 1 July 2014. The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and its Minister are directly responsible for the guidelines on broadband. I would not be aware of the ins and outs of where issues will arise and when they feel it will be wrapped up.

There are over nine sets of guidelines which cover a plethora of different regions which all have to be signed off between the member states and the Commission by 1 July 2014 for the new period to come into place.