Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

Yes, and we have a team of people in the Department who deal with queries every day from such Eircode postcodes. We have had meetings with not just Eir but also SIRO, Virgin Media and many other operators to ask them whether they can connect a given Eircode postcode. In the vast majority of cases, the operator comes back with reasons it cannot and will not make the connection. It is happening all the time.