Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I forgot about SIRO.

Lastly, while ComReg welcomes the increase in investment in fixed broadband in recent years, it is quite noticeable that the level of investment in mobile broadband has almost halved. I do not know whether the delegates have an indicative figure for what the spend on mobile broadband will be in 2018. While one can understand, as Mr. Godfrey says, fixed broadband increases and the fact that people are increasingly using Wi-Fi hotspots, it is still rather worrying, given that we should be moving towards next generation services, that many parts of the country still do not have access to 4G or the network coverage is really poor. I have had to stop making mobile calls around here because the network cuts out all of the time. My mobile phone has a radio on it and it is no of bloody use because every now and then I lose the signal. Why is the level of investment in mobile broadband falling when the quality, even for voice and mobile Internet services away from a hotspot or Wi-Fi connection, is really poor? Is Mr. Godfrey even slightly concerned about this?