Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

This is providing a must-offer obligation for RTE or other free-to-air programming to apply to network systems regulated in the State. Where an Irish broadcaster is using such satellite provisions, there is the ability for it to carry Irish free-to-air channels such as RTE. There is a slight technical difference when one is using voice or broadband connection in that it is one-to-one transmission, whereas the satellite broadcasting signal thrown is one-to-many. Otherwise, the Senator's interpretation is correct.