Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On page 46 of the programme for Government Fine Gael outlines a guarantee to deliver high speed broadband to every home and business in the country by 2022. In the same document it indicated that a contract would be signed by a bidder in or about June 2017, but that did not happen. In the light of the delays, will the Minister outline the Government's commitment to roll out high speed broadband to 100% homes in rural Ireland by 2022? Will he tell us what the status is of the Peter Smith review of the tendering process which was necessitated by certain recent activities?

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