Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

9:30 am

Photo of Tom FlemingTom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

While the first issue is broadband, the costs associated with the Eircode implementation will be extravagant and I will allow the Minister to elaborate on that. The cost is now perceived to be approximately €37 million but I will revert to broadband. The broadband programme is highly ambitious but I refer to its overall delivery to areas that need it, particularly those that have been left behind in the two-tiered development of the economy taking place at present. For instance, small businesses and small farmers, such as the man trying to exist on 30 cows or 100 sheep, he is-----

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