Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)
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From a historical point of view, when I was in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs a long time ago I tried to bring telephones into rural areas. At that time, Telecom Éireann was under the Department of Posts and Telegraphs. I tried to suggest that it use the ESB network to bring wires to rural areas. That was turned down due to being technically not possible. How did it become technically possible to put fibre-optic cables on to poles and bring them to rural areas when it was not possible to do so with telephone wires in 1982?