National Broadband Plan: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2022-01-27
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Catherine Murphy (SD), Kildare North

We also have a need for transparency and information, which I think the Minister of State will accept. The Currency produced the corporate structure, the names of which the Minister of State listed, and it has been described as Byzantine. It does not fill us with confidence, given we did not have any in the first instance, about the ability of the company to deliver broadband to the extent that was required and within the terms of the contract and how it was going to be funded.
Eir has passed about 45,000 premises in the intervention area. The providers are, potentially, in competition with one another and compensation can be paid where duplication occurs. Has that compensation yet arisen and is the Minister of State concerned about it?

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