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

I have another question but I just want to make it very clear that we are not questioning the efficacy of the RISPA's services or the merit of what its members do - far from it. They need support, and what they do is important. The launch in Ballyhaise College was exciting and wonderful, and the more such events the better. That is not the issue here. Our issue is whether this is a viable alternative to the national broadband plan. That is what our report will have to deal with specifically. Of course the witnesses' services are efficacious and do great good and there are beneficiaries - I know some of them - which I support. The question, however, is whether they can jump from this to an assumption that they deliver the entire national broadband service.

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