Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
The risk we take as a country is to decide what is needed based on what we are seeing now rather than on how society will evolve over a 25-year period. If one looks back, one sees that the data demands today are multiples of the data demands of only a decade ago, for example. The nature of work in urban and rural Ireland, the jobs people will be doing and the demands for data will undergo transformational change over the next 25 years.
The data upload capacity on mobile technologies at the moment is around 15 Gbit per month - that is at the high end - but with fibre to the home or high-speed fixed broadband, one is talking about ten times that level.