Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion
5:00 pm
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I am slightly concerned because I expected the answer to be a ringing yes, because a regulator's job is to ensure competition in the market. In a sense Mr. Fahy has raised real concerns that we do not. I might mark that because if we do not have competition that is an issue. When I was looking at the investment figures, somewhere in our pile of data, we invested something like €3 billion since 2009. I thought that was a bit of an under-investment. That was my concern when I was looking at it. It may be above international expectation, but over 15 years the price for the 3.6 GHz spectrum works out at €4 million or €5 million a year. I was slightly concerned when I saw the figures.
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