Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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In her presentation, Ms Lennon indicated that the other way it could be done was through a universal service obligation. That would be a policy direction from the State with ComReg setting out the basic rules. That would not breach EU competition rules. In a sense, that would give a wholesale monopoly or a continuing or extended monopoly to Eir.