Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

Yes. NBI is not doing a commercial roll-out, so it is not doing what another company would do whereby it would connect, say, 40,000 houses in one area and 4,000 houses in another area. Its build is dictated by where the local exchange is, and it is not addressing any villages. Everything it is doing is non-commercial, so there is no low-hanging fruit per se. As the Deputy knows, farms in all those areas outside villages are among all the other houses that are on the farm and around it, so it would be virtually impossible to identify an Eircode postcode for a farm and to bring fibre down the road specifically to connect that farm. It would make no sense to do that.