Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

Yes. It means that those particular premises in Ballina and Castlebar can get a connection that can make an order to Sky, Vodafone or Eir. There will be approximately 20 service providers. Westnet Broadband, for example, would be another service provider that will sell fibre in the west. People can make a choice. Anyone can go onto the relevant websites and get that 500 Mbps upfront connection for €100, perhaps without a charge from the retail provider, and will then be charged at €40 or €50 a month. Within that package, those 4,000 or 5,000 people in Ballina and Castlebar will get high-speed broadband, possibly television, a landline and other things.

Many other townlands across Mayo will see vans and trucks of contractors over the course of this and next year. That is what we mean when we talk about "home survey" and "under construction". While 70,000 will be connectable by the end of the year, more than 130,000 will be surveyed and designed over the course of the next 12 months and we will see that coming on stream in 2021. The NBI website is being updated every month as all that gets updated.