Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If baffles me that there could be a con to putting fibre onto an island. My two questions are how much it would cost and how much the Department would need. Let us get on with it. It is all coming out of the same pot in any event. It is just a question of how to get a mechanism that allows us to get on with the job. I accept that NBI probably does not have a fibre contract for all the islands, although perhaps it does. If it does, it should be nailed to providing it by a certain point. If it does not, and if it can get away with some other system - there does generally seem to be a get-out-of-jail card in a small number of cases - it should be asked what the difference is and how much it will need.