Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the reasons for the delays with the national broadband plan or one of the complexities of it is that the technology and the contract has to be future-proofed for the next 25 years. We need to ensure that as technologies change and speeds increase, the infrastructure put in place at the taxpayer's expense will be able to keep pace. We want to see a minimum of 30 Mbps and the availability, in most cases, of fibre-based speeds.