Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The target was 105,000 in the first year. There was then a revised target for that year and the second year. The current target is for 102,000 premises to be passed by the end of January 2023. That was originally supposed to be passed by January 2022 but that did not happen. The schools programme is going reasonably well. Some 679 schools are connected. There are also 284 community connection points. It is good that is happening. It will allow people to work remotely from different locations. However, with regard to homes, premises and farms being connected, the numbers are very small by any standard. It is an issue we need to talk to NBI about when we have it in again. Either the marketing of the service is not good or people are just saying "We are fine, thank you very much. I already have good wireless broadband and I am happy enough with it." I do not know which is happening.