From Freedom of Information material it is known that regulator boss Etain Doyle is currently taking legal steps to try to force the Dep of Comms to sign her contract adding a 20 percent performance bonus clause to her 150 000+ a year salary and grant her a retiring age of 52. If substantial change does not happen soon in the workings of this impotent 120 strong bureaucratic body, which we generously pay for with our telephone fees, we'd advise the minister to drop the retiring age even further.

What about the roll of the Unions?
(and substantial shareholders) within Eircom in the whole debacle? In three words:
Shame on you!

What about RTE?
Why has RTE taken no part in raising the issue (with the notable exception of individual presenters!)?
RTE has collaborated with Eircom's dsl "trial", which was solely geared to artificially delay the dsl roll-out, and it is hard to come up with an explanation for RTE's inactivity other then them sucking up to one of their biggest advertising and promotions clients: Eircom.

What about our TD's?
They don't have to pay their own telephone/Internet bills. End of story.
Again there are some notable exceptions of TD's who are aware and who are raising awareness.

What about the political parties?
Would they be willing to clear up accusations that are continuously rumoured to us: Political parties are compromised by having taken sizeable undeclared donations from Eircom in the form of cheap or free communications connectivity for their annual conferences and other events. While we retire from our Eircomtribunal.com web site activity, we would happily publish the parties' statements concerning this issue here.

Philip Nolan spotted on the Dole queue - To Michael Woods (Department of Social Affairs!)
Eircom's Philip Nolan is not ashamed to snatch dole money by the amount of roughly 1 million a week: As around 13 percent or 1/8 of phone line rentals are paid for directly by the Department of Social Affairs (for people over 65) this source of easy money made it impossible for Eircom to resist the temptation to crank up the Irish line rental fee to the highest in Europe. Michael, if you don't act swiftly against this misuse of social welfare money, Eircom may well bump up the line rental even further – with the nice dual effect of squeezing out any possible competition on the telephone market, as the high profit from line rental makes it then possible to undercut potential competitors on call charges. It takes an impotent bureaucratic 120 strong body of highly educated and highly paid civil servants at ComReg to not spot such common sense correlations. Whooops - the line rental has just burst through the 20 euro barrier!

To Minister Brennan,
Teleworking will alleviate traffic congestion.
Teleworking will flourish with widespread cheap broadband Internet access – at 30 euro per month, as in the rest of Europe.
Talk to your colleague Dermot Ahern – don't go to the money wasters of "Enterprise Ireland". They must not be allowed to squander more taxpayers' money for more ludicrous teleworking advertising before the preconditions in the form of cheap access and widespread availability are met.

Off Topic - To Environment Minister Martin Cullen,
This is off topic, but sadly "funny" in a coincidental way. While researching material concerning waste recycling we came across these figures. They simply show which percentage of potentially recyclable organic waste is currently getting that treatment in each of the countries of Europe.

So the two countries not doing any recycling of organic waste are Greece and Ireland – the same countries that are noticeable at the very back of the broadband Internet league.

Sunny Greece and rainy Ireland - never thought we had so much in common.