Mr. Tony Murphy:

It is linked with the Deputy's question about housing and broadband provision. These are policy areas within the domain of member states. We have a national broadband plan, to which the European Union is contributing something, but it is the Irish national broadband plan. Targets were set for the EU 2020 agenda to cover the broadband speeds that would be available by 2020. It has been updated to cover the years to 2025. There have been some issues recently in broadband provision, but we carried out our audit some time ago. It looked like the programme was going to plan. In our report at the time we said Ireland would probably not make the 2020 targets in full but that it was in a good position to make the 2025 targets. We were not painting a bad picture at that point. We do not know what has happened in the meantime, except for what we have read in the press.