Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to explain on that point. The 100 Mbps is provided here via fibre to the cabinet. That works in a city area. Quite simply, it will not work in rural Ireland. It is either the 1 Gbps or it is nothing. It is a tactical issue. The only way of bringing high-speed broadband to the homes of rural Ireland, if we define that as 100 Mbps or more, is to actually bring in fibre. That means that rural Ireland could leapfrog urban Ireland. The urban solution of 100 Mbps is not a possible one.