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

I have some questions on the targets in the broadband plan. The original targets were 115,000 premises by January 2022 and 204,000 by January 2023. It has been confirmed that 85,000 premises should be passed by then. There were remedial targets. The targets were then changed and reduced to 60,000 by January 2022 but NBI had only passed 34,000 premises at that stage, which was 30% of the original target. NBI set the targets. If the targets are not to the satisfaction of the Department, it can raise that with NBI. What power has the Department to force NBI to revise its targets upwards if the Department is not happy with them? I ask the officials to keep their answers brief because I have a number of questions on this matter.