Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I support Senator Currie’s amendment. This is simply about notifying the affected community – it can be a small community – where it is proposed to put a line of poles along the side of a road. I have experienced this in County Roscommon. Very reasonably, the broadband contractors notified local householders, including me, about their proposal to erect a third line of poles along our road. People should be entitled as of right to some degree of notice in respect of what is happening in their communities. In my case, the poles were a bit of a clutter and they did not improve the view from my house, but I appreciated that my neighbours were entitled to the infrastructure and I was at least notified of it. We have to have a notification system.