Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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They will have up to a gigabit. Let us say there are another five houses between the last house that has been served in that development and the end of the road. Ms Lennon has said that for €1 billion, Eir can give all those homes in the intervention area the same service. We will now get down to the micro. The last person in the line by that box is already getting speeds of a gigabit, and the fibre is then taken to the next eight homes to the end of that road. What is the difference between the service those eight people would get versus the 20 that have come from the village out to that point, under what Ms Lennon is saying Eir could do for €1 billion?