John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to get into EMF. Mr. Griffin said where he was at and where his thinking was on this issue. It is something that has been dealt with and is complete within Government. I just think we should consider making evidentially-based decisions with regard to the impacts on people's health of the noise from wind turbines before we launch ourselves into any more of them. It is affecting people's health and it is important.

I have a second issue, pertaining to the rural parts of my constituency. The Irish Timesand other papers today discuss how the goalposts have shifted on the roll-out of broadband. The reason is EU state aid rules and the fact that when a private operator is involved the State cannot duplicate that service and this has changed the plans initially made by the Department. Somebody in Waterford asked what that meant for us and whether we could now expect broadband to be rolled out across the county and in my rural location. Has it changed? Where do we stand on what the EU has ruled and how is the Department dealing with that now?