Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)

Many of the operators have invested heavily since we engaged with them. Regarding their own resilience, the biggest issue was power outages at critical pieces of infrastructure. They have now been identified and the operators have a lot of work ongoing. This is a liberalised market. We do not own the State's infrastructure - or any of the infrastructure - but we do control the regulation.

One issue I am not happy about is that customers in west Mayo and west Cork were out for up to 19 weeks. I do not believe that is proportionate and I have made this very clear to ComReg and the operators. We need to do further work with ComReg on climate change. We must ensure it is fit for purpose and protects consumers in a country that will have more and more Atlantic storms.