Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The key strategic decision-making is within the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. It has worked. It is almost ten years since the first broadband task force was established. The strange mix of collaboration and competition has delivered. The most attractive part of Virgin Media's latest announcement on rolling out connectivity of 11 GB is that it is now opening its network as a wholesale-access network. That is what it has worked. Competition is what has worked. It helps that we have SIRO, Eir, Virgin Media and others-----