Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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The commercial operators' argument would be that NBI is getting so many thousands of euro per connection, whereas if those operators do the connections they will not. If those commercial operators have any additional costs, they will not get any more remuneration. I think this is their big argument for not doing these connections. It is extremely important that we try to expedite this process, especially because of the number of people now running their businesses from home. I ask that this endeavour be expedited and perhaps it might be possible for the representatives of the Department to come back to the committee by the end of February to let us know what progress has been made on this issue.