Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

In the Mitchelstown map, it seems that the remaining houses are on roads but, in fact, they are on the boreen network. They are very much one-off housing. If there is a ribbon development on a road, one can understand that Eir linking fibre along the telegraph poles to a series of houses on a road would be much more attractive than following a winding country road to a boreen. The ESB might have certain advantages in respect of the final mile to an isolated farm house.