Written answers
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Broadband Service Provision
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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325. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding he can provide to parents to install a landline telephone in their home to assist a child with severe learning disabilities to avail of broadband services in order to download tailored online programmes which are crucial to the progression of the child's education and learning development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9128/16]
Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The provision of fixed line electronic communications networks connections and broadband services to users is undertaken on a commercial basis by competing electronic communications networks and services providers.
The Commission for Communications Regulation has imposed a universal service obligation on Eir, which, among other things, obliges it to provide landline connections at a standard connection charge across the country unless the costs incurred in any individual case exceeds €7,000. The standard connection charge is currently €121.93.
My Department has no funding available to it to assist users to meet the standard charge imposed by Eir for connections to its network.
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