Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

I will certainly examine it. The selling of telephone connections to home owners is entirely a commercial matter for the telephone company, in this case Eircom. It is a privately owned company in a fully liberalised market. A Minister has no function in that area. The only question that arises is, given what the Senator said about the existing poor service, what if people buy the lines from Eircom and own them? What does he believe that would do to the service in terms of repair?