Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to nitpick but someone who lives in one of the intervention areas - and is part of the 542,000 who do not have high-speed broadband - is not going to understand how Mr. Ó hÓbáin can say it is being well managed. The Department may be dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's but it does not seem to me to be an efficient process. I am sure there is no wrongdoing by any staff member and I am sure everybody is working really hard but it is bit like the hamster on the wheel, working hard to keep it spinning but delivering nothing visible. Is the bidder intervention action the best way to do this? Might there be a better way to deliver, particularly in view of the fact that the Department can quickly sign an arrangement with Eir that sets timelines regarding the deployment in 300,000 homes? It is very hard to comprehend how this can be the best way to do it.