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Siptu health service support staff such as healthcare assistants, laboratory aides as well as porters and cleaners backed strike action by 94 per cent. Photograph: Alan Betson
Thousands of healthcare workers vote for strike action

Thousands of health services support staff in more than 30 hospitals and other facilities are set to take industrial action in the weeks ahead over pa(...)

Conceived during the crisis, the broadband plan was designed to minimise the up-front cost. Whether that is now the best option to deliver long-term value for money is the question.
Broadband: what you are not being told about the €3bn plan

The Government is battling to win support for its broadband plan – welcomed through much of rural Ireland, but attacked by its own senior officials an(...)

Tánaiste Simon Coveney: Fine Gael is a prudent party. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Tánaiste defends Fine Gael’s financial management reputation

Simon Coveney has defended Fine Gael’s image as a party of prudent financial management despite predicted budget overruns for the national children’s (...)

Minister for Communications Richard Bruton: ‘The State’s risk is absolutely capped. I think this is a good deal from the point of view of the taxpayer.’ File photograph: Tom Honan
FF wants committee to investigate broadband contract

The Oireachtas Communications Committee has been asked to open an investigation into the Government’s decision to award preferred bidder status on the(...)

We have a ruling culture that has already forgotten everything that happened so recently. It has “moved on” into a bland technocratic desert where thinking about all big public projects is outsourced because that way no one has to take responsibility for the public good. Photograph: Getty Images
Fintan O’Toole: KPMG hoovers up fees as politicians forget everything

When we think of the madness that is the National Broadband Plan (NBP), of €3 billion of public money for infrastructure that will be owned by a priva(...)

Over the next seven years, 147,000km of fibre will be strung on existing Eir-owned poles, said Minister for Communications Richard Bruton in the Dáil. File photograph: Getty
Taoiseach dismisses ESB option for broadband roll-out

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has insisted that giving a company such as the ESB responsibility to deliver high-speed broadband “won’t work as quickly and co(...)

Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty said the cost benefit analysis is not credible. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Department ‘cooking the books’ on broadband cost benefit, TD claims

Officials from the Government department charged with delivering the national broadband plan were accused in the Dáil of “cooking the books”. Sinn Fé(...)

The installation of broadband in rural Ireland has proved to be a political hot potato. File photo: Michael Smith/Getty
If broadband plan falters rural Ireland will never get it, Naughten says

Former minister for communications Denis Naughten warned if the proposed National Broadband Plan falters between now and the signing of the contract h(...)

Paschal Donohoe: ‘There is risk, there is complexity in all of this.’ Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Roll-out of broadband plan ‘risky’ but right thing to do, says Donohoe

The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, has said the roll-out of the national broadband plan will be “risky” and without precedent as he defended h(...)

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe speaks to media on the National Broadband Plan at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Government will not own broadband network when built

The total cost of the National Broadband Plan (NBP), including private investment, is now expected to exceed €5 billion. Despite paying the bulk of t(...)

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