Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Joe O'ReillyJoe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Here is our problem for Mr. Matthews to see. It is important we see his as well. It is being noted and will be part of our ultimate conclusions. However, he has to see our difficulty now. There is a political, policy and human rights imperative to get broadband to every home in the country quickly. Even under the Constitution, from a legalistic point of view, every citizen has to be cherished equally. Whether one looks at it constitutionally or one looks at it educationally, and when one looks at the PricewaterhouseCoopers, PWC, assessment of the good that broadband will do, putting the broadband plan in place will do such a range of things from home working right across-----

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