Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is the first time the NBI has been before us where, with any luck, it is now getting ahead of the agreed targets. That is something towards which we are very positively disposed. I will turn to some issues. The gap intervention area refers to 500,000 or more premises. Those areas beside blue areas have existing fibre broadband networks like Eir. Under the roll-out programme, a neighbour might not see fibre broadband going in for another three or four years. People look over a ditch at neighbours who already have fibre broadband. I know NBI is doing a body of work and was going out to tender to determine what it could do in that space. It is a space that is significantly relevant to us. I am in Limerick city but I cover a good rural area. This issue affects peripheral areas outside of the city. What is the current position?