Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There has been great frustration expressed in the context of this debate. I welcome the support that we have been offered from colleagues around the Chamber. There is very strong support for the Labour Party motion, which is very welcome. The history of the whole thing has been outlined. We now have €3 billion of infrastructure which will be in the private ownership of a venture capitalist organisation that does not have expertise in the area, a contract not yet signed and approximately 1.1 million people in Ireland who are suffering from an inequality because they do not have access to broadband. A number of questions have been already asked. I will reiterate some of them and ask some more myself. There is a serious lack of public information on everything that has happened. Why was the full concession model rejected by the Government?

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The Government has never actually explained why it just went for the gap-funding model and did not accept the full concession model which was on the table in 2016.

We have not received a proper explanation as to why 300,000 homes were allowed to be squandered to Eir - that may not be the right word to use-----

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