Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I was going to refer earlier to the situation faced by a business in Castleisland, County Kerry which employs more than 100 people and is a much needed facility in the area given the haemorrhage of much of its youth because of a lack of jobs. In this instance, to obtain the broadband service required for the business the owner has had to relocate two of his workforce to Dublin. Current broadband speed in Castleisland is 4 Mbps. Eircom has informed the businessman concerned that the cost to him to access its broadband service would be €40,000 over three years. Having made further inquiries he discovered that businesses in Dublin are charged €99 per month for a 120 Mbps service. It is unfortunate that this man has had to relocate some of his workforce to Dublin because of the discriminatory nature of broadband service provision in the Castleisland area. We need to move immediately to ensure a level playing pitch in respect of broadband service provision.

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