Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To finish the point, we still have significant difficulties with a lot of ducting, which is not as accessible as had originally been projected. The extent of that problem is greater than had originally been expected. That has caused a real difficulty, which still has not been overcome and needs to be. We have all seen and will see further that the number of surveys that have been done is really high. They have taken off. Actual build-outs are being held up because of the three problems to which I referred, particularly the last one. We will overcome that problem working with Eir and NBI.

The one good piece of news is that all the national broadband connection points are pretty much done now. We will see a rapid expansion covering pretty much all primary schools next year in order that every primary school in the country will be properly connected. Where we have been able to issue contracts and have the service ready to go, I understand that the take-up has been very high, so the concept is working. There is always in these large projects - I remember I happened to be talking to an engineer involved in one of the other-----