Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us return to learning from the mistakes made in the issuing of the licences for the mobile phone companies, which has given us a bad service in many areas. One of the reasons was that the licence did not specify a high enough target, although I am not suggesting the target should have been 99%. As time went on, the regulator went easier on the companies. Will the percentage of target be specified in the contract or will it be in the licence? Who will oversee the implementation of this? Two or three years into the process, if the company is found to be unable to do it anymore for a variety of reasons, or if it is just dragging its feet, does the Department have a process by which it can remove the contractor? That would be normal in a large contract like this. It cannot be that the State is locked in and has to pay €2 million to get the contractor off the pitch. How will the Department protect the State in the event of the contract not being developed?