Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am referring to where the Minister might be getting an update on the contract.

The mobile phone and broadband task force sits somewhere between his Department and the Department of Rural and Community Development. It should probably sit within the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. It is necessary to get it in place. We are still talking about a best-case scenario of five years before some people will have broadband rolled out. We need to have some due diligence in respect of offering people the alternatives that exist and engage with the other stakeholders. I am referring to our having a notion of the entire roadmap for mobile connectivity right through to fibre.

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