Shane Ross (Independent)

I am sorry, a Chathaoirligh, that was an aside. A legitimate and authoritative document was leaked to The Irish Times yesterday, stating how well the Government was doing. A very good Green Party Minister is involved in this. The document said the Government was proposing a paper on broadband and that it was somewhere in the Department. This was to give us the impression that something was being done about broadband. There is a consultation paper in the Department which was prepared by a forum of global people who were flown in for the day to give advice, which anybody in this House could have given years ago. It was irrelevant. There was then going to be some sort of an open day when all the vested interests could come in and bellyache, and then there was going to be a proposal. As far as I know, however, there is no Bill and no money for broadband either. There are no proposals. We should have tackled this five or six years ago.