Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

Will the Minister confirm that he is abandoning the group broadband scheme because he believes it is not working? The reason it has not worked is that there is only matching funding and the community must find half the funding. It is being abandoned in favour of a national broadband scheme that will happen at some stage in the future and the money is being diverted to a different sector in the Department. People who aspired to get funding to bring broadband to their communities can forget it because the €10 million earmarked for that will now go to the greener homes scheme.

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