Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I bid Mr. Griffin and his colleagues a good morning and thank them very much for their attendance. I will take up the point made by my colleague, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, on blackspots across the city and county of Dublin and the greater Dublin area. We need reassurance that the NBP is going to address those blackspots. Many consumers have contacted all Deputies, in particular in urban areas. They are being told by providers that their broadband connection is coming and if they sign up, they will be connected in 12 months but that is not happening. Whether it is a breakdown or an over-promise by certain providers, are these issues going to be addressed in the short term?

It was stated that 257,000 premises had been surveyed. The Comptroller and Auditor General thinks there should be a separate subhead for this extensive plan and Mr. Griffin might come back on that as well to say if that is going to be incorporated into this year's accounts. We need reassurance that Dublin is going to be addressed.