Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Going back to the national broadband plan, the broadband cost reduction directive of 2014 means that assets, such as ducts and poles, are to be used to try to reduce the costs, and rightly so. Some of the companies were originally bidders and are not now. We heard recently that some of those assets are being leveraged. Is it the private national broadband company, the public purse or the individual householder that benefits? Who benefits from driving down those costs?