Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The difficulties with that are the difficulties that arose when did that in the past with Irish Water. Enormous costs and difficulties and delays arise in the establishment of a new State company. We would be doing Irish Water all over again. There would be further delays. There would still have to be a procurement process in terms of getting access to Eir's infrastructure and in terms of getting the fibre laid.

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