John Gormley
Ceist:129 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the provision his Department intends making to ensure that the developing network of metropolitan fibre optic telecommunications rings will have proper connections to the developing fibre optic network along cross country power, rail and gas pipelines; and his views on whether other regulatory measures will be required to ensure that there are also proper links from these metropolitan loops to the local area network. [26346/03]