Mr. Patrick Neary:

We are aware that not everyone in the dark blue area can get high-speed broadband. We are monitoring that very closely. The change we made back in 2017 was where we had identified 84,500 premises for which we were confident no operator would serve in the short term. We brought those back into the amber area. We continually monitor the progression of developments in the dark blue area from operators. As the committee will have heard from a number of operators recently, they are continually upgrading and developing the services in cities and towns.