Mr. Fintan O'Brien:

While I do not mean to reiterate what others have said, that issue with regard to the service is core from the Department of Rural and Community Development's point of view. In Our Rural Future and the islands strategy, we have committed to the importance of the delivery of that service. I will admit that I am not an expert on the cost implications of that kind of infrastructural work. I am not aware of any developments regarding that kind of overarching survey across a number of sectors. I can take it away, liaise with other providers and Government Departments and follow up on it. The way we look at it is that we are implementing a number of capital projects across our budget and across islands and rural development in general and we see delivery of that service to islands as part of the national broadband plan, NBP, so there is a cross-cutting implication there. To answer the direct question, I am not aware of any developments regarding such a survey but I can make inquiries about it.