Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am glad the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, is in the Chamber this evening. In Ballinakill, in east Galway, Eir is rolling out broadband. However, there will be a gap of about 1 km on either side of the village. If the Minister could engage with Eir, we could start plugging some of these gaps, providing equal coverage to all communities. The national school in Ballinakill is in that coverage gap when all other national schools in east Galway will be connected. It is unfair to the school’s pupils who will not have a shared learning experience, particularly when they go on to secondary school.

When the new contract is signed, will we have a level of priority for what will happen in the first 18 months of the roll-out?

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