Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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There is also the development of the 5G platform. I know I am straying into the territory of the Minister, Deputy Bruton, and I asked him about this as well. There are parts of the spectrum that may be used a few decades down the line as well. We are going with a plan but the Minister does not seem to know exactly what we are doing in a technical sense. The person who will spend this money on behalf of the public, if the Government survives, does not seem to know what he is doing.