Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I was going to finish up by thanking the witnesses. They have given us food for thought and questions to raise with representatives of NBI whenever they appear before us. Clearly, the witnesses' technologies have a role to play in the long term, but in the short term in particular. In 2014, I sat in a room with 53 councillors from 16 local authorities. They were being promised broadband over the next couple of years by the then Minister, former Deputy Alex White, who has been a long time out of politics by this stage, but many of their areas still do not have a service. I hope that, sooner rather than later, we will have high-quality broadband for every part of the country, however we get it.