Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My questions are born from a concern that we get high speed broadband into every home in the country. That is what we want to achieve.

Will the Minister give a timeframe for getting broadband into every home?

Is he confident that the preparatory work by councils to sort out the infrastructure at local authority level to make sure we are good to go is working well?

Will the Minister set out annual targets for the State-led intervention? Each year, will he tell the provider the number he wants done and will that be on the public record? Will he benchmark them and monitor each stage to ensure there is an ongoing examination in the public interest? This is the most serious project since electrification.

Will the people who get the State procurement in the diverse and spread-out areas of the country have high-speed download on a par with other areas in the country or will they be poor relations? Will there be any difference?

How does a minimum speed of 30 Mbps compare with other countries in Europe?

Could the Minister comment on the status of the Eir roll-out? It is not a State intervention but the Minister is still responsible for it. What part of the country is left to be provided for?