Ms Carolan Lennon:

What we agreed with the Department was just over 300,000 and that was due to be finished by June. We have delivered 315,000 but some of the original Eircode postcodes that we agreed with the Department have not been delivered yet because we have had some way leave and access problems.

We have done all the civil engineering work, the poles and all that, and we just have to splice. By the end of August we will have 340,000 done, and that will be everything that was in the original agreement with the Department, plus close to another 39,000. That will all be done by the summer. To be honest, we have spent all our money now. The splicing is the cheapest part. As we only make money if we get people connected to the network, it is in our interest to get it finished now and we are also doing the design work for our national build, with the first homes being passed on a national build in January.