Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Existing State infrastructure is being used in that fashion. In terms of developments since we published the paper last year, I should have mentioned earlier some of the real developments on the ground. We have a ship steaming towards Ireland currently to lay a cable connecting Ireland to North America, Project Kevlin, which will run from the north west down to the east coast and provide further high speed international connectivity and backhaul connectivity in this country. Therefore, real investments are being made. Multi-million significant investment will continue to provide high speed backhaul services, but we need to go further. The volume of traffic and the needs and demands as we go on YouTube, mobile phones and use ever more data at home and view television and other materials on-line mean we will see significant increased ramping up. That will bring into use our metropolitan area networks. It will require us to use the National Roads Authority network, the An Bord Gáis and RPA networks and other State ducting, be it in sewers, waste pipelines or whatever infrastructure.

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