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

That leads me on to the next question. This week alone I have got three complaints. Eir has this contract. In another area, not far from the one I have mentioned, this week a grandson took over an old house. His grandparents are dead. The house had a phone but it has been cut off for years. The house is down a little lane. This man has done it up and moved back in. It is a bad area for coverage. He wanted a landline and broadband for his business. Eir agreed and put up the poles and everything then, all of a sudden, it told him it would not give him a line in due to its cost analysis. The poles had been put up and it would not give him the wire, even though there was a phone in the house which had been cut off. He then went to ComReg which told him that it had no role to play. Who has a role to play? A contract to roll out the service will be given to Eir - and I could name two other companies but I will not name individual organisations-----