Mr. Kevin Barrins:

Linked to that, the success of the scheme will drive take-up, which is driven by low connection charges. Deputy Stanley was correct to say that homes will need 30 poles to be erected to get a connection yet everybody will be charged the same. One needs to dilute that cost by driving take-up as quickly as possible. However, that is not happening within the footprint of the 300,000 because the connection charge is far too high and take-up is slower than it ought to be.