Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I have already set deadlines. There is a deadline within the legislation we recently enacted for the switch on of a free-to-air digital service in December 2011. There is a deadline for us of 2012, which is when we will switch off our analogue system because the valuable spectrum we can then accrue for broadband and other purposes is of real importance to us. That is a certain deadline-----

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