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

-----in every county. All 26 counties will see connections in the second year. A company is willing to do it, we have the money available and we know we can achieve 100% coverage.

If we go back to square one we will not know any of this. We will be saying to rural Ireland that it has waited too long and we will make it wait longer. That would be wrong. Later in the debate I will be happy to discuss some of the alternatives and why they are not viable-----

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