Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

At the forum we held on next generation broadband in Dublin Castle involving all sides in the debate, I gave a very clear consistent signal that we need to develop a co-operative model that is also still competitive. It needs to be co-operative in terms of providing open wholesale access. Crucially, that is now being delivered; it is starting to work and happen, in the MANs, which are being used increasingly, in the dramatic fall in line rental on a wholesale basis,-----

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