Catherine Murphy TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats has said she doesn\u2019t understand why the Department of Communications bothered writing a set of rules for the National Broadband Plan if they could simply be broken repeatedly with supposedly no impact on the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven that the report finds that the plan has not been compromised then the very obvious question is simply: why have specific rules for the process when it now transpires that flagrant disregard for those rules and repeated breaches supposedly make no difference whatsoever to the process?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Catherine Murphy TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats has said she doesn\u2019t understand why the Department of Communications bothered writing a set of rules for the National Broadband Plan if they could simply be broken repeatedly with supposedly no impact on the process.<\/p>\n
Catherine Murphy said:<\/p>\n
“Given that the report finds that the plan has not been compromised then the very obvious question is simply: why have specific rules for the process when it now transpires that flagrant disregard for those rules and repeated breaches supposedly make no difference whatsoever to the process? I think we can all see the ridiculousness of that contradiction and therefore it is impossible to view the findings of the Smyth report as anything other than a superficial exercise which chose to gloss over the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Taoiseach, and indeed many other Government Deputies, when they learned of Mister Naughten\u2019s repeated meetings with David McCourt, accepted his actions were inappropriate and had an impact on the NBP process. For the report to find different is ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
27th Nov 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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