National Broadband Plan
Dail Éireann — 2021-06-01
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

The Deputy's first point was about how working from home underlined the need for broadband. It creates greater demand, as people working from home will need more broadband for their video meetings and so on.
The Deputy asked whether there were penalty clauses. As I understand it, there are none in the current contract.
The Deputy also asked about the Minister's representative on NBI. I might defer to the Minister, Deputy Ryan, if he has an answer. I do not have the answer, but I can get the Deputy that information from my office.
Did I miss any other question?

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Sitting date: 2021-06-01