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

I do not doubt the Deputy for a second. As with any roll-out, there are developments and changes and people's dates move. At the start, I asked that people be told honestly what year we were planning to connect them, even if it disappoints them to find out that they will be in the sixth or seventh year. It means that as things change and the roll-out progresses, if it is found that something will be later or earlier, that person will get an email stating that his or her connection date has changed, been revised and the revised connection date. It is better to tell people the truth and tell people as things change as we go along, rather than just giving them an open-ended promise that they will get their broadband sometime in the next seven years.

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