Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Yes. Mr. Griffin need not give me the final accounts.
In respect of the 2016 annual report, Mr. Griffin must be tired discussing broadband but mobile phone signals are also an issue. I do not have a mobile phone signal from any operator in my constituency office or my house. At either location, I have to walk out to the garden or to the side of the road in order to receive a phone call. I live in a village that it is not very small. Mobile phone signals in Ireland have deteriorated. Everybody is talking about broadband but there has not been a single mention of mobile phone signal strength. Many people use smartphones to access the Internet as well to make calls. Broadband is brilliant but one needs a mobile phone signal to start with. Mr. Griffin said the regulator let companies off too lightly by not insisting on a sufficiently high level of penetration once it got to 80% or 90% of the------
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