Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

No. There will be room on the system for between six and eight multiplexes. As we switch off analogue there will be room for even more. The primary reason the EU has asked member states to switch off analogue by 2012 is to free up spectrum in Europe. We do not have as much clutter as in the rest of Europe but we will have much more room once DTT is operational.

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