Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

Thanks very much to all the witnesses for coming in. I nipped out to a communications meeting next door where we had representatives from the Department and from ComReg speaking about communications and the effects of Storm Éowyn. I have put forward an idea, which is being worked on, that we should have a national emergency communications system. Other countries, such as Luxembourg, which is a small nation, have such a system. In a national emergency, they can pinpoint and send out information to regions from all sectors. We need something like this to ensure the information gets out. A total of 99.9% of people have mobile phones now so we need to get that information out to them straight away in a co-ordinated fashion nationally.