Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I take a different view. I have the same view on digital terrestrial broadcasting as I had on phone masts in 1990 - it is utterly unnecessary. We should have been doing all this by satellite since then and we would not have all these rows about masts all over the country. A satellite system would also have been cheaper. With regard to the €40 million spent, we should write it off as a bad idea with the voting machines. We should just buy a couple of satellite channels and operate the whole system with one press of a switch. At least then the people in the Black Valley in Kerry would get reception with the rest of the country, which they will never get through DTT. I do not intend to oppose the section, however.