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

Photo of Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That leads me on to the next couple of questions. Most of these are local issues with which I have dealt personally. I have raised the case of a man who lives in County Kilkenny, two or three miles outside New Ross town, before. He has nine children. There are 11 people in the house. He is looking for broadband. He lives in a semi-rural area. There are three houses to either side of his house, left and right. All three on the right have broadband, as do all three on the left, but he cannot get it. Again as a lay person, for the life of me I cannot understand why this man in the middle, only three miles outside of New Ross, cannot get broadband. I have fought two or three elections in the time this has been going on and he still comes out with the same thing every time I go and knock on his door. He is still not getting answers. He is after writing to everyone including ComReg and all of the providers and no on will give him a service. Why?

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