Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not casting any aspersions on what the company is doing - it is a commercial operator as Mr. Bolger said from the start and it provides a good service and so forth - but would Mr. Bolger accept the statement that by providing a service to potentially 1 million customers or 540,000 people in predominantly rural Ireland where the State is going to go with the national broadband plan and provide that service at great cost to the Exchequer, taxpayers and businesses throughout the State, the competition might dissuade investment in certain areas?