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

I apologise that I must leave soon to raise a Topical Issue matter in the House. To tease out further what Mr. O'Leary stated, even after the 340,000 houses were removed from the intervention area, the ESB was still considering the possibility of connecting houses from the end point of those red areas, on the outskirts of Mitchelstown, where it would be just a regulator. If the ESB had provided the fibre on the same red routes through the doughnut, it would still be able to hook on at the end of point of that and continue the network from there. Mr. O'Leary indicated that the Department, or perhaps ComReg, was ultimately unable to agree on that. What were the Department's concerns in that regard?