Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has given a very long and comprehensive answer telling us everything we already knew. At the end of it, he began to address the issues. He said that by the end of this year, he will have taken the step 1. When can we expect to see the physical roll-out of high-speed broadband under the State's intervention? Will it be in 2016 or 2017? Does the Minister intend to roll out from the most isolated areas inwards - in other words, from those areas where there is no question of commercial intervention? Does the Minister agree that in reality within a year or two years, it will be 1 Gbps and that 30 Mbps is totally obsolete in the modern world? Even 100 Mbps has been overtaken. What most people will demand and get in the future is fibre to their premises.

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