Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

There is no doubt about that. It has to remediate all the poles and ducting. Approximately 40,000 poles have been remediated by Eircom over the past two or three years under the national broadband plan. I would like to note an important point about the 300,000 that Eircom provided for, to its credit. The commitment agreement was signed in 2017, as the Chair said. The Minister gave Eircom a detailed plan over two years to get more than 300,000 homes connected to high-speed broadband. That happened before Covid. In the end, it passed 340,000 premises. There is no doubt in our minds that it would probably not have happened without the national broadband plan. Before Covid, more than 340,000 premises in predominantly rural areas, in every village in Ireland, had access to fibre to the home.