Ms Carolan Lennon:

We would need to sit down with the regulator who would need to design it. There is a model whereby a body could be designated with a USO to provide broadband. Costs and models could be agreed to as part of it. As it was delivered the provider would get the costs back from the State. I do not know how long it would take to do it, but, obviously, there would be rules and absolute clarity on costs, what would be spent and how it would be spent. There is a USO to provide broadband in other countries. That offers a model.