Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Before the Dáil is a discussion on the Eir contract with the Department. There are small numbers of people at the very end of each line to whom broadband should be extended. If there are eight to ten houses, the line should be completed. It is common sense for the Department to call Eir ask whether there are communities where a small amount of further investment on the contract would complete the roll-out of broadband locally. The Minister of State provided all of the statistics on the roll-out of broadband. I have listened to that for four or five years and I consider it to be pie in the sky. I cannot see any future to it. I ask the Minister of State about the five to ten houses at the end of communities and whether the Department will ask Eir to apply some flexibility. Eir tells us it cannot do it because of Department rules while the Department says it is Eir. Will the company be brought in to discuss it for the sake of a very small number? It is common sense and financial sense. Above all, it would solve the problem on the ground.

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