Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I hope people listening at home have not switched off at this stage, if they were listening in the first place. It is for the sake of the committee that I am asking these questions. I do not think any other member has developed that point. I thank Mr. Kelly.

From the perspective of consumers and public representatives, the most important thing is to have as much data as possible in real time, updated daily or weekly, in respect of every constituency. Our guests referred to 26 counties but there are five constituencies in Dublin, for example. I accept that much of Dublin is not covered by the programme but I saw figures indicating there are approximately 13,000 premises to be passed in Dublin, as there are in Longford. As a percentage of the number of houses in Dublin, it is a small figure, but it is still a significant number of premises, many of which are located in Fingal and so on. It would be useful to have widespread availability of data by constituency or by local electoral area and a timeline for when broadband will be provided in each area. The faster that is done, the better. Those data should not be shared just with the committee; it should be shared more widely. I appreciate NBI has been doing a lot of that. It should be doing as much of it as it can. I hope everybody gets broadband as quickly as possible.

I ask our guests to develop the point in respect of the take-up they expected compared with what they are actually getting. I know that 5,477 premises, or approximately 1% of the total, have been connected, so it is a small sample. What level of take-up did they expect in that regard?