Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I assume that the normal procurement process is being followed. I met the Ministers, Deputies Naughten and Donohoe, on this issue just last week. I will ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to give the Deputy a more detailed answer than I can. I am confident it is on track and we will be able to sign a contract, and that we will have shovels in the ground and work under way in 2019 to bring high-speed fibre to some of those homes. It will be the biggest single public investment in rural Ireland in a very long time, as big a project in many ways as rural electrification.

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