Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I spoke to NBI about what can be done with regard to acceleration. Some 34,417 premises have now been passed. NBI says it will pass 60,000 by the end of March, although that was meant to have happened by now. I asked about the Covid delays and the acceleration. NBI has suddenly got rapid response teams and it can be done with them but there is a difficulty in dealing with Eir's "make ready" process. NBI says it will need Eir to be able to deliver quicker, or else it needs a self-install product whereby it could do the business itself and not have to call Eir back out to clear a blockage, because that is madness. It is saying it will now be six years rather than five, in the best-case scenario. What have the Department and the Minister of State done to ensure we can provide what NBI needs to deliver that acceleration?

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