Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is an answer. Nobody is happy that this has not reached the deadlines. There is an acceptance regarding the Covid delays. I will ask a couple of questions rather than have a couple of pieces of paper cross over. Are we fairly sure 60,000 premises will be reached by the end of March? Do we have what will be the new figure for the end of this year? I know it was somewhere between 100,000 and 130,000 but it was to be firmed up. Are we still talking about June for the piece on the acceleration? I know it is twofold.

It involves the catch-up owing to Covid, the figure for which is a little higher than it was, and reducing the timeframe for the whole project to what NBI has said is six years. We had all hoped it would be five but at this stage we need to ensure it can be reduced to six.