Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Yes. Those measures will provide open access in a plethora of different ways to bring us back up to the very top of the league in broadband. That is happening. It happened yesterday in the courts and will happen in the Seanad tomorrow when we push the legislation through. I believe it will work; it is the right policy as against the alternative, which would have been a direct intervention, paying over money to the former Eircom owners which would not have worked. I am very glad we did not pursue this as a policy unlike others who proposed it.

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