Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Agreed. That is why we are putting it into this Bill and trying to get it through the Dáil and into action. There are other areas in terms of broadband access in schools, the rural broadband scheme and the national broadband scheme where, similarly, the market is not able to deliver and we are willing to act.

The evolution or development of the one-stop-shop will have to be done on the basis of what is actually happening on the ground and how we can most effectively deliver backhaul broadband infrastructure. The evolution of this is along the lines of, first, determining what we have and, then, determining common and easy access to it. As Deputy Coveney said, the NRA is not a telecoms company so it is right for us to assist the NRA or any other agency, be it the RPA, the canals company, CIE, Bord Gáis or a range of different State infrastructure companies. A one-stop-shop provides the capability of having a common regulated approach which makes it easy not only for the telecoms and Internet service companies, but also for the infrastructure company itself.

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