Ms Carolan Lennon:

Fibre to the home is absolutely the best longer-term solution. It involves 450,000 homes but it is across 90% of the geography, and one does not want to do it twice. Fibre to the home provides a long-term solution. Even though most of us do not have laptops today that can take a gigabyte, in the future we will, and once one has that connection one can take advantage of it. The ambition of the Department is right but it will probably be too difficult in the last 10% or 15%, based on where the premises are. Much progress may be made quickly on the 90% but the other 10% will be difficult and expensive. It might be an opportunity to see if there are other solutions that might work to deliver it there.