Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is all very complex, both the construction and the funding. I will start with the construction. The Deputy talked about the different statuses. The first one is where people are being surveyed. The second is where their connection is under construction. The third is where it is available for pre-order and, in other words, people can be connected to the Internet within 90 days. The fourth is where it is available for order and people can be connected within ten days. The fifth is when they are actually connected and they have taken up the service. The target is to have 540,000 homes passed or, in other words, all available for order. That is the 540,000. It is not 540,000 homes that have taken up the offer of broadband but 540,000 homes that have fibre-optic cable outside at their kerb, available for them to connect within ten days. That is the time it takes for NBI to get from the kerb and tunnel under a person's driveway, or whatever it is, and put it into their home. Those are the five statuses.

All of those numbers should be published on the website every month. Most of them are published, and we send around monthly updates. If there is anything missing, there is no reluctance to provide any of that information on as regular a basis as possible. It is very important to do that because, otherwise, how can we measure how the roll-out is going? I absolutely agree with that.

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