Mr. Sean Bolger:

Absolutely not. As far as we are concerned, the national broadband plan is essential and should go ahead. One of the major benefits of the national broadband plan is that it has driven commercial investment. There is no doubt about that in terms of the fact the State took a view to build out and to have a national broadband plan. The objective of the task force, of which I was a member, was to stimulate commercial investment and that is what it has done. The objective is to get everybody high-speed broadband. It is not about the State doing it; it is about getting it. If one gets commercial operators to invest - the announcement by Eir is very welcome - and if more money is invested, more people will get broadband quickly.