Ms Carolan Lennon:

We would provide fibre broadband to the rural homes in the intervention footprint and connect them to it for that cost. When we talked about the intervention footprint previously, we were talking about 540,000 homes, only 460,000 of which were actually rural. Because the number of other homes we are connecting has increased from 300,000 to 340,000, the number of rural homes has reduced to 420,000. We can pass and connect those 420,000 homes for less than €1 billion. We are absolutely certain of that. We are just finishing the 300,000. This was always the case, however. It is honestly not new news.