Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Legislation has been promised to provide for the creation of indictable offences for breaches of enforcement measures imposed by the Commission for Communications Regulation, to provide ComReg with powers to investigate overcharging and various other matters, and to provide for the establishment of an emergency call-answering service. Would it be possible to broaden the scope of the Bill before it is published with a view to ensuring against the large-scale disconnection of telephone services that we saw in recent weeks?

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