Dáil debates

Tuesday, 2 December 2008

 

Telecommunications Services.

3:00 pm

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

The Minister probably would get more than three of them up and running.

When the Minister was on this side of the House, he showed the kind of impatience I now show on the need for progress in respect of our broadband and IT infrastructure generally. However, while such urgency remains, Deputy Ryan now is the Minister and nothing has happened. I was not talking about the value for money audit on the MANS project, which pertains to whether we will continue to build further MANS in the future in a third phase. I refer to what already has been built, on which money already has been spent and to which taxpayers' money already has been committed. I refer to getting some value for money from this asset, on which approximately €80 million already has been spent. We must sweat this asset and——

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