Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. Each licence is adjudicated on by the municipal district or local authority. Essentially, they have the right to put conditions in the particular site in question for each licence to safeguard the public interest and good in terms of the taxpayer. We are not changing that process, so to speak.

As I said to the Senator Boyhan, we will include additional guidance in the circular on some of the sensitive sites referred to in the briefing document. No one wants there to be any unintended consequences. We want to speed up the delivery of high-speed broadband to all of our citizens as quickly as possible.

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