Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would like to move now to the letter Mr. Moat wrote to the former Minister, Deputy Naughten, setting out the reasons Eir was pulling out of the process, including that under the National Broadband Ireland, NBI, process Eir would lose its retail business, not only in regard to broadband but in regard to copper, which it is going to lose anyway. Eir would not have the opportunity of having a retail business as well as a wholesale business. Effectively, it would have to create a new wholesale business.