Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Griffin and his colleagues for coming in. It is good to see them again. There are a few things I would like to cover. We had a good discussion this morning with NBI and Deputies were able to ask questions about delivery. We now know there is a small number of connections relative to the number of passings, which is less than it might have been. We have heard about that. How is the Department going to hedge bets on the delivery challenge? There is a delivery challenge at the moment, some of which is understandably down to Covid-19. Mr. Griffin said that in his statement but the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, went further in the Dáil and acknowledged that some of the delay, in his view, is because of NBI. NBI discussed that this morning as well with regard to difficulties bedding in and so on. What is Mr. Griffin's understanding of the source of delay beyond Covid-19?