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New Comms Minister: Eamon Ryan

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    #32
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Comreg has manifestly failed to use its powers where it had same. Consider it a culture of failure that permeates the thing from top to bottom . Once these cultures of failure become embedded in an organisation such as Comreg you find youself with a failed institution. No amount of name and legislative changes can uproot this deeply embedded culture. One must then consider the only solution possible for a failed institution which is outright abolition and recreation of the necessary bits ab initio .

    A failed institution is a dynamically complex scenario but once it happens there is no point wasting time and effort with it. It could be a school or a hospital or a regulator . Once it fails then abolition must be considered . Comreg is the best ( ie worst :( ) example in the bloated Irish regulatory sector .

    In certain cases such as the eircom 3.5ghz fiasco Comreg have lied and obfuscated repeatedly to cover their own inadequacies as a regulator.
    Comreg deliberately diluted their own rollout requirements for 3.5ghz rather than enforce the contract remedies for not compliance with the rollout. This particular remedy was contract law 101 and not some complex administrative 'powers' stuff that would wreck their little heads .

    For this , and for many other failures and lies and excuses , they must be abolished as quickly as possible .

    As for the myriad other regulators and micro regulators in this country , the abolition of Comreg (which is one of the more ancient ones) would have a galvanising effect . Its all really Pour Encourager Les Autres as Voltaire elegantly put it long ago .

    I even have a theme song for the project in mind and while those of you with BB may click here for those of you without I suggest you click here instead .


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    #33
    lucernarian
    Registered Users Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    What's Eamon Ryan's track record in communications and broadband? Has he ever been outspoken about it, outside of the election??

    I know he was a member of the sub-committee allright.


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    #34
    Blaster99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Blaster99


    I hope he knows more about broadband than he does about the oil market.

    Seeing as the green party want everyone to live in cities and cycle and stuff, it´ll be interesting to see how he deals with a mostly rural issue like broadband availability.


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