Mary White (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

According to the ESB and Vodafone, Ireland will become the first country in Europe to utilise existing electricity infrastructure to deploy fibre connections directly to homes and businesses, initially reaching 500,000 premises. We cannot deflate what happened yesterday, because that is the way we must go.

I am disappointed to hear Councillor Donaghey say that so few homes will get high-speed broadband or that it will be so sparse.