Dáil debates
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members]
4:15 pm
Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We were always going to have to provide State aid if rural Ireland was to have access to high speed broadband. An absolute condition of delivering State aid was that there had to be an opportunity for private companies to put up their hands and offer to deliver it commercially.
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