Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses are identifying constraints based on the rules. Those same constraints existed to a large extent in terms of what the Department in its initial documentation could request from the marketplace, but the market came flooding back and said that it would provide fibre to the home. Based on Eir's testimony to the committee last week, it is very clear that, if it were responding, it would be in its commercial interest to replace copper with fibre. I would say that is the case for many of the incumbents across Europe.

This is not a case of us against the Department or the Department against us. Rather, I am trying to be collaborative on behalf of the people, whom we represent to the best of our abilities, just as the Department does.