Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What Mr. Carvalho is saying is absolutely the case. He indicated that he has been in Ireland a couple of times. He may not realise how difficult it is to get planning permission to build the lattice structure the antenna is put on. I see these antennae being dropped on the tops of all sorts of buildings close to schools, etc., and nobody gets overly worked up about them. If they are put in areas, which are usually the areas where we have the most problems with the delivery of broadband technology, there is a significant backlash. We are prepared to accept the old timber poles that have been around for a long time. I suspect if we were trying to roll out a platform now that required timber poles we would not be able to put them up either. My understanding is that Mr. Carvalho is spot on from the technological point of view but a cultural shift has to take place regarding the acceptance of the antennae.