Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let me finish. The broadband plan initially referred to a minimum download speed of 30 Mbps. Future-proofing could require a marginal increase but even if we went to 100 Mbps to which Mr. Griffin referred to as a target, the NBP is not, in its wildest dreams, really future-proofed. Europe has told the Department that the 30 Mbps target was way out of touch in the context of modern requirements.

At best, even if it reaches a maximum of what is being offered, it will only be offering a service to the people of rural Ireland that is 10% of the speed of what is already available in urban Ireland.