John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister and the officials from the Department and RTE for attending this meeting. I compliment them on the information campaign they have conducted at various levels to keep public representatives informed. The success of that is evident for me from the lack of queries I have received in my clinics. Certainly, the queries I have received in the last few weeks did not match the number of queries about All-Ireland tickets in Mayo.

The presentation referred to virtually full coverage. The worry for us in these last few weeks is the 'virtual' part. Have there been extra notifications or information provided to the people in the vulnerable areas to let them know they are in a vulnerable area or that they need to get Saorsat? How is that being dealt with? There was a reference to 200,000 or 300,000 taking this up before 24 October. Is there a county by county breakdown of the uptake for Saorview? What is the situation in Mayo, my constituency? What are the vulnerable areas and what has been the uptake in Mayo?