Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Simon Murray:

It is groundhog day. It is the same story ten or 15 years later. What is going on is nonsense. I live on Inishbofin and we gave up on the State ten or 12 years ago and built our own broadband network, through a community scheme, and involved two other islands. It was a community-led company, which became a private company and which now delivers broadband all over Connemara and into Loughrea, east Galway. If we were to wait for this famous roll out we would still be waiting. It makes a huge difference to the island to have that broadband connectivity, through tourism and personal usage and business. The answer to the question is "No". It is a bit all over the place.

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