Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion

Mr. Ciarán Ó hÓbáin:

The constraint is that only benefits for which one has empirical evidence to substantiate may be included. The body of data is needed. It is anticipated that, at a point in the future, we will be able to do what the Senator has proposed. First, one has to have the data available and the empirical evidence to underpin it.