John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We now resume in public session. The purpose of this morning's meeting is to engage with the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in respect of the announcement on 25 April 2014 that the Government has committed to a major telecommunications network build-out to rural Ireland in order to address the connectivity challenge in rural Ireland in a meaningful and sustainable way. I welcome the Minister and his officials to this morning's meeting and invite the Minister to make his opening statement.