Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the second point, officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform proposed to recommend that €1 billion be spent. That would have reached 127,000 premises, which would have left 420,000 premises abandoned under their project. Rural Ireland would be waiting not only for the roll-out of that project but those 420,000 premises would have no prospect of getting service in the roll-out.

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