Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I want to go back to the headline figures. For clarity, although I would need to check the transcript, I think I was very clear that I was asking for the figures in respect of properties passed as opposed to properties constructed or any other figures. The initial target for the end of this year was 180,000. Today, we are being given potential figures of between 100,000 and 130,000, which seems like a huge variation that has not been fully explained. My sense of it, which I think is shared by the people who are waiting anxiously to have broadband provision passing their properties, is that NBI appears to be quite confident that any recalculation of targets or milestones will be explainable and, in so far as it is explainable, NBI is satisfied the penalties will not apply. Do the witnesses think that confidence is misplaced?