Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

——which is 10.6 megabytes per second. Data from BT shows that less than 5% of customers use such speeds. A debate is useful in getting a sense of what we must do and what we must change. The reality is that we are not there yet but we have improved. We have a similar level of penetration to our colleagues in the northern part of this island. The OECD statistics, which do not take into account different technology and growth since then, show that 40% of Irish households have broadband connection.

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