Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)
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I thank Mr. Mahon for the clarification. I felt at the time that if the wires were adequately insulated, they would not conduct and would not have access to electricity. He makes a good point that fibre optics do not do that. I live in a rural area. We have quite a good service for our house provided by a company called Imagine. It is adequate for our current needs.

I would prefer to have the ESB bring the fibre optic cable into my house directly rather than using radio signals. It is a tragedy that the Electricity Supply Board, our company, is not carrying out this work. I hope somebody in the Government will have the sense to quickly consider the matter again.