Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

With the broadband debacle, we are looking at the €3 billion and what will be got for that. We are looking at another seven years and whatever advances will be made in banking. As a rural dweller, I certainly do not trust that broadband will be delivered, even in the next seven years, to the area I come from. Banking technology will advance all the time but if people do not have the necessary connectivity, that will be a real problem with regard to social exclusion and excluding customers, especially in rural areas.