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

Obviously, because it needed to piggyback on it at various points. I see it as infrastructure for the future as opposed to providing home services. Any figure means that we are back to the moment in time issue. We do not know if there will be a massive growth spurt in some part of the State. The figures are all fluid, but, essentially, we are building infrastructure similar to the electrification programme back in the day. It is for the future and there is only one way to go about it - putting the best possible structures in place for development. No one is coming forth with better options than fibre optic cable and closed lines.