Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1025: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps that can or will be undertaken regarding telecommunication difficulties at the Black Valley, County Kerry; if he will arrange, attend, organise or otherwise facilitate a meeting between all interested groups, including service providers and applicants for broadband and telephone services with a view to facilitating agreement whereby the region can avail of the proposals put forward by local, regional authority report, Kerry County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3082/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The provision of broadband and other telecommunications services is, in the first instance, an operational issue for the service providers concerned. Responsibility for the regulation of electronic communication service providers rests with the independent regulator, the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg), in accordance with the requirements of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 and the Regulations, which transpose the EU Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications. Accordingly, I have no function in this matter.