Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What if Eir provided to the 300,000 homes with its own cable, and it had nothing to do with NBP people and that it was just a part of the solution? It could reuse the cable it already had and could be part of the whole solution to broadband. What if Eir, which is a private company with control over those 300,0000 homes, had been sold and the new company decided to specialise in electric cars? I am raising questions about the idea that we could have used a chunk of a private company's network. Would that not be high risk for the State?

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