Ms Carolan Lennon:

It is not always a "no". We started with 300,000 and we will end up with 330,000, so there were a few "yeses" in there somewhere. I get those requests every day and everyone says, "It is not logical. Why did you stop here?" The problem is if I did not stop there I would be doing a 400,000 roll-out and I would be over my €250 million budget. In the first place, the way we have been doing it is by bringing core fibre out into the country in advance of this in order that we can connect back to it. We planned from where we had core fibre out. We could have made a decision to do much more of Munster or all of Connacht but we said we would do it from core fibre out. Back in the office we did a high level design and when we got out on the ground we did our low level design. While doing that, when it made sense we scooped more people in, or we looked at requests and said it really is close so we will do it, but people often say that is just 50 m or a mile and a half. I know it is terrible and we do not like saying "no" to people but we have to do it because otherwise it would not be due in 2019 and it would not be €250 million. That is the challenge, but I sympathise if one is on the other side of it. I have been around the country a lot, including both of those early days in Naas. Now that some people have it and some people do not have it, the desire for it is bigger, and I feel that when I am out there.