Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Broadband Service Provision: Discussion

12:30 pm

Photo of Hildegarde NaughtonHildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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I will follow on from Senator O'Reilly's questions about ComReg. Does it need extra staff or greater expertise? The witnesses might expand on that point. There would not be a cost on the Exchequer per seby providing more additional human resources to ComReg, but there could be higher tariffs, which might be passed on to the consumer. Would that be the case? When ComReg finds that there have been breaches, what is it capable of doing to sanction a company and how does that work? There is considerable overlap in these questions.