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

That was a selling point. The orange area is the intervention area and the taxpayer or the State is putting up 90% of the cash. The point I am making is we find ourselves in a situation where another operator, which has a dominant position by virtue of the fact that it controls the highways - the main arteries out through the national broadband network - as one can see from the maps, has now got there first. We will not build there but yet in part of that area the liability will still wind up with 90% of it being on the taxpayer to pay.