Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate also that there are two other members waiting to come in and that the witnesses have been here for two and a half hours. There have been revelations on the broadband plan in the last number of weeks and some of the information that has come out has included stuff we suspected and raised with Ministers previously.

Another revelation today was that Eir had held up the project for a year and a half with hard bargaining over the subsidy and how much it would charge to allow cables to be hung on its poles. The delegates mentioned this.