Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

It is a common question across every single part of Ireland. There are always a few houses next door to other houses that have a fantastic fibre connection from Eir, and soon they will also have a fibre connection from National Broadband Ireland, and until 100% of the country is done that will always be the case.

What NBI has done, with a lot of pressure from ourselves, is to engage with Eir and other operators to see if there is something that can be done in the interim to get to those homes faster where they are just on the edges, as we call them. These are homes that are contiguous with the blue areas or even within the blue areas there are amber homes, little pockets of them, as one can see on the map. They went to tender to the market because, I suppose again, we asked them to go to the market to get the best offer and get the best solution. Eir is one of those companies that may be able to address those premises quicker through NBI. So that is a work in progress. We expect to make a lot of progress in the next three to six months where NBI will be coming forward to us with a solution to those pockets of premises which, heretofore, could be on the long finger into the next two or three years.