Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The way the process will work is it is focused on prevention. There is no compensation provided for operators who have equipment in their network that needs to be removed. We do not want to be in a situation where we are ordering operators to remove equipment. We want to be in a situation where the security measures we take are for the future. This is future-facing legislation about what we put into our network in the future. It would be a very extreme case where we would ask somebody to remove something that is already there.

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