Results 10,521-10,540 of 26,021 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is not the question. Coming up to Christmas, will Eir not provide a financial goodwill gesture to people whose businesses have been discommoded? Many continued to be charged when their lines were not working. Surely Eir can make some kind of financial gesture in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Ms Lennon to reflect strongly on this matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: That was not the question asked by Deputy Lowry. Obviously, NBI is not going to get this for free. Eir is dealing with NBI in terms of Eir's phone network in any case so why would it not come to a commercial deal to allow NBI to tap into Eir's fibre broadband to deal with these gap areas?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Ms Lennon willing to give the commitment to Deputy Lowry and the committee that Eir will look at this issue with NBI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are areas that have been left without coverage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: The facts are that there are areas without broadband coverage in gap areas. That is the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will come back to Ms Lennon, specifically, on Deputy Crowe's question. Senator Buttimer has seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: In that context, we will write to both Eir and National Broadband Ireland in order that those discussions will take place, and Eir will communicate to us that those discussions have taken place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: They are actually very good when one gets through.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Lennon was talking about setting up a new-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Eir had existing centres in Limerick and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Lennon needs to clarify that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: No disrespect was meant to people in Sligo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: The issue is with Eir, not with the people of Sligo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: I think people may have interpreted in a different way what Ms Lennon said last night. We welcome that she clarified it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Lennon said that setting up the call centre in Sligo was a mistake.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: So Ms Lennon does not regard it as a mistake.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: So Eir is committed to Sligo?