Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not sure if Mr. Matthews was looking at proceedings earlier, but we were looking at the best way of providing this infrastructure that can be updated in the future. I mean this in the best possible way, that what he is selling is not what we want. We want a fibre for high-speed fibre network that is sustainable that is the same in Tullow, Tullamore, Tyrellspass and Terenure. That is what we are trying to achieve here. With all due respect, this product is not the product, to my mind, that we want.

I know from reading all of the documentation, that at the end of the day when this job is done, there will always be a certain percentage where there will be issues and we may have to use a product like Mr. Matthews product to complete the task.

We have had a series of people in to the committee offering different products and it has to be made very clear that Mr. Matthews' product is not comparable to, perhaps, the product that BT was speaking about before the break.

Some 125,000 homes would be connected with the regional Internet, that is fixed wireless technology, to a building not to an area, that building being a home or a business. Mr. Matthews mentioned about it is not economically viable for fibre and I understand where he is coming from on that. I understand his comment on the nomadic 4G and 5G.

On reliability of connection, and uploads and downloads, I am thinking of businesses, where the system gets clogged. If everybody in the company is downloading a massive file and ten people are on their break and looking at Netflix, such a system is not fit for purpose when it comes to-----