Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

A benefit of the national broadband scheme and other Government interventions in demand management stimulation is to examine ways in which to ensure we will avoid putting broadband connections in homes where there are no computers. The connection is needed for a computer, not a cooker. We must determine how to increase the number of homes with computers if we are to increase broadband figures and what the purpose is of people getting new computers.

See this speech in context