Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At this stage, we are at less than 5% delivered. NBI has a detailed website. Perhaps the plan as outlined by Mr. Hendrick could be put on that website so that people can see that X amount are ready now, by December that figure should be 60,000 and by next March it should be 90,000. It could include the 108,000 premises referred to and the 195,000 premises that are going into the system. People in each area need to know this. Counties like Longford have 8,000 premises but Dublin has almost 14,000. The point was raised that Cork, with 80,000 premises, has the largest number. Every single premises houses a family. These are people who could work from home and those who are trying to run businesses in rural Ireland, where businesses are needed more than anywhere else.

I have one final question as I am conscious of time. On the cost of the investment, I appreciate that some people call it a cost while others call it an investment. I regard it as an investment in the areas that need it most.

There will be 544,000 premises between schools, farms, homes, business premises and so on. How much does that work out at, roughly, per premises in terms of the cost of State investment?