Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Mark Griffin:

Totally. One gets the educational benefits and the remote working benefits. If one talks to any of the companies in Dublin or Cork like Google, Apple, Accenture and so on, they are mad to get people to work from home because of the pressure on office accommodation in Dublin and the cost of housing. It makes a big difference from a climate action perspective and a social inclusion perspective with all the developments in e-health and remote monitoring of elderly people with health issues. It includes the whole area of smart farming. There is a massive range of technology, value-add and social inclusion that we can deal with really quickly by providing this infrastructure at a reasonable connection cost and a reasonable cost to buy the products. That is where the societal piece comes in and where the Government policy is at.

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