Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

It will be a tendering process. It would not be advisable to come into the House and suggest we were willing to pay millions of euro to somebody to provide this service and provide them with a map showing the last 10% or 15% of the country which needs to be covered by broadband and invite offers. It would not be very smart to intimate the amount we would pay as it might be possible that somebody would be willing to provide it free of charge or for the commercial return they might receive.

The Deputy need not fret so much about the Taoiseach's speech last Saturday and worry about the fact that perhaps——

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