All-Ireland "Worst Comms Minister" Award

Slutmonkey57b

Vote now!


Interestingly, when looking up the "communications" department website, guess what I got when clicking on Ryan's name?

http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/utilities/Error.htm?aspxerrorpath=/CMSWeb/TemplateFiles/www.dcmnr.gov.ie/GeneralPage.aspx

Can't make this **** up.....

Cabaal

Your link is broken

Funny thing is people will vote for most recent minister, my vote goes for
2002 - Dermot Ahern
or
2004 - Noel Dempsey

If this thread is just about three getting the NBS then we already have threads on it

watty

From March 2004
http://broadband.oireachtas.ie/Chapter02.htm

We needed to be putting our house in order years ago. By 2003 it was well known what needed to be done.

The current Minister has inherited 10 years of inaction, lack of regulation and lack of vision. Bicycle lanes, wood stoves, light bulbs and Insulation consultant scams take up all his attention. Hence my 1st choice is 2002 - Dermot Ahern. However none are stellar in this area.

barnicles

Why isn't "Wood Pellets Genius" winning? :mad:

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Slutmonkey57b

Cabaal wrote: »

Your link is broken

Nope, that's the error message the DCMNR website gave me when I attempted to look up Mr. Ryan. I found it somewhat ironic.

Slutmonkey57b

Got to be O'rourke for my money - she had the brief at exactly the right point in the boom times, held it for a long time, and could have saved a good solid 10 years of grief for telecoms in this country by introducing ducting requirements and FTTH for new construction, enforcing a proper LLU, and preventing the existance of ComReg. Instead she sat on her fat arse and did nothing.

mike65

Mary Mary of course, 5 years at the critical point of teleco development.

Sponge Bob

Dermot Ahern was easily the best in the past 10 years . He had very little competition in fairness .

bk

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Dermot Ahern was easily the best in the past 10 years . He had very little competition in fairness .

+1

The introduction of FRIACO by him (pushed by IOFFL and resisted by Comreg and Eircom) was one of the most important steps in the development of BB of any sort here in Ireland.

Sponge Bob

Ahern actually grasped the key issues and DID something .

neither Dempsey or Ryan have issued a ministerial directive under the comms act 2002 as they are entitled to do , nor have they sanctioned Comreg for ignoring still standing directives from Ahern to Comreg .