Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When does the Minister expect to publish the plan? How will it align with the work the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, is doing on the national planning framework? The document the Minister published, the review of the capital plan, highlights broadband as an area for prioritisation. He may have heard in the last hour or so that SIRO has pulled out of the national broadband tendering process. Does that suggest to him that a company made up of Vodafone and ESB has no confidence in a process? What action will the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform take to ensure the effectiveness of the national broadband process in light of that? What action will the Minister take to ensure that all the provisions of the capital plan are implemented in a manner that is effective and efficient and without causing capacity issues for the economy?

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