Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Under state aid rules, we must maintain neutrality. The European Union does not allow us to nominate a technology. Having said that, anybody who reads the literature and has an understanding of broadband knows that the technology of choice in delivering high quality broadband is fibre. I am certainly very conscious of this and the thinking generally on what is best technically to deliver high speed quality broadband across the country. Fibre has been and is the technology of choice. However, I cannot make a definitive call on the technology to be used because state aid rules and the European Union do not allow me to do so.