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

I hope the Minister does not read the answer he gave previously to very similar questions and that we start to get into the nitty gritty of this. Caithfidh mé rud amháin a rá i dtús báire. Ní haon mholadh é féinmholadh agus ba cheart don Aire cuimhneamh ar sin. Nowadays fibre is no more complicated than copper was 20 years ago. It is a little thing that is hung on the top of a telephone pole and run it from pole to pole and join it just like a copper one in a slightly different technological way. The Minister should not give us the line that this is some technological revolution. It is not. Is it a fact that the Minister and the Department predict that by 2020 a total of 180,000 houses will not have fibre broadband.

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