Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

For the operations to start delivering, we must sign off by June. It will take a further 18 months or so to deliver.

Northern Ireland is a good example and we must measure ourselves in terms of developments north of the Border as well as south because the topographies are similar. Broadband uptake is speeding up in Ireland and we have reached the point of equal access with the North. We are not satisfied by this, though, and want to be more ambitious.

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