Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. To be clear on the figures, fewer than 17,000 premises have been fully passed and the target for the end of the year is 60,000. Is that 60,000 premises where order or pre-order is available or 60,000 that have been fully passed? What is the target for fully passed premises by the end of the year? Did the initial target of 115,000 have to do with being fully passed or just ready for pre-order?

People have received emails telling them they can pre-order for the autumn but have since found out that they cannot get access until 2023. I used Castleplunket as an example, as did the Chairman. Castleplunket is a small village and people there have been given a date of 2026 whereas the resident to whom I spoke was told 2023, so I am not sure how that works. Infrastructural issues and other issues can come about - that is acceptable - but surely they will have been identified during the survey or build stage or, preferably, before people are told they can pre-order or order between August and October of 2021. The issues should be identified before the email offers go out.

I was contacted by one business person and two residents in Ahascragh whose speeds were approximately 12 Mbps to 15 Mbps even though, when they put in their Eircode postcodes, they are told they are in a 30 Mbps area and are not included in the roll-out. They have sent me screenshots of upload speeds of 2.8 Mbps and download speeds of 14.3 Mbps. There is clearly a major issue and I doubt that Ahascragh is the only area affected. I can provide the witnesses with the Eircode postcodes. Will they undertake to examine the matter?