At the communications committee hearing…
Chairman: “I’ve just been told here that the, just another reminder with relation to the phones issue, that the interference will stop the reporting of the committee.”
Patrick O’Donovan: “Chairman, just on that point, can I just say something in relation to that. This is a communications committee, we’ve been asked several times, as members of the Oireachtas to try minimise the amount of paper that we’re bringing. Now Deputy Kenny and myself have, for the last number of committee meeting have brought our laptops here, in a view to try and reduce paper and now we’re being told we can’t use the technology in a committee room that’s been given to us by the Oireachtas. I mean either we’re going to have a communications committee in this country reducing the amount of paper…I mean I’ve documentation got from the Office of Internet Safety that I can’t access now because I was asked to turn off the computer. This is a bit of a farce. I mean, at the end of the day, this is a facility that’s provided by the Oireachtas and now we’re told to turn it off.”
Chairman: “I think it’s eh, I take on board exactly what you’re saying, It’s a little bit like the social media, it’s evolving very quickly and it does need to be dealt with.”
O’Donovan: “But only in this room, chairman, with the greatest amount of respect that there’s a problem. Because in the other committee room where we meet, we don’t seem to have this difficulty at all.
Chairman: “Yeah, it’s an issue we’ll have to return to.”
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