Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
As part of the process, we are working with the local authorities to identify infrastructure that can be used to site masts and repeaters. The purpose of the ComReg report published last Friday was to try to tease out some of these issues. In the move from 75% or 90% population coverage to almost 99.5% geographic coverage there are big trade-offs in terms of cost. The decisions that need to be made in terms of the next licensing round include the conditions to be required through a round. In other words, is it a population focus or a geographic focus and what are the costs involved?
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