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Dialup Dempsey Returns to Defend Government | Irish Election — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:51:22 +0000

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By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:25:35 +0000

Barry,
ComReg have powers now, they’re limited but they have remained unused. Why give more powers to them if they haven’t used their own ones? It’s an attitude change is needed not more unused powers. ComReg have never fined a telco, when gone to court they have withdrawn their directives instead of fighting all the way in Court. They have no spines.

As for the schools thing. He and his Dept have been aware of the very same issue for the past two years. We told him so twice in face to face meetings AND they took notes. They’re always looking into it. They simply don’t give a damn.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:02:53 +0000

I was at the conf and spoke to him in the coffee break (before he left!!) He acknowledged that he had announced in May 2006 that he had agreement on the head of the new legislation for ComReg (to allow it to kick arse with Eircom, amongst other things) but said it had no Dail time allocated. In speaking to others at the conf they took the view it wouldn’t happen pre-election, since they were afraid that the ‘new’ Eircom would declare redundancies if LLU was really activated.
One colleague pointed out that the Oz Prime Minister visited Bertie (and Dempsey was present) just before the Oz bid for Eircom. The reason that the Oz’s were encouraged to bid is that FF doesn’t like O’Reilly’s Indo writing nasty stuff about them so they wanted to take Eircom off him…. – sounds weird, O’Reilly and Co ripped the guts out of Eircom and stopped all LLU type activity…. so he couldn’t care less if it was sold, he’d make money anyway, but politics is a strange game……

One thing I did get out of Dempsey was that he would ‘look into’ why BB in schools couldn’t be shared with local communities (out of school hours) – presently prohibited by the Dept of Ed.

Bye, Barry

By: Keith Gaughan

Keith Gaughan — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:51:13 +0000

What they really ought to do is impose a rising daily fine on eircom until LLU is complete. Money talks.

Not that there’s any chance of that happening.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:41:41 +0000

When Dermo was in DCMNR we had a minister who was an activist for broadband and who kicked the sh*t out of eircom – I dont know what’s happened since – maybe if dermo became taoiseach…..

By: Cian

Cian — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:56:34 +0000

Its classic politiking isnt it? Dempsey really comes across as nothing but a careering hack and his antics suggest no different.

I doubt we will see much protest over Dempsey repeatedly shifting the goalposts and stuffing comreg/eircoms nest.

Why not get readers to email dempsey with those five points outlined above-to show popular support?

By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Own goals and Ministers

Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Own goals and Ministers — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:37:51 +0000

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