Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hope there are not further delays because targets are missed.

Most worrying are the areas in which there is no indication of planned activity. There are a number of small gaps in rural areas around Shercock and Virginia, to name but two. An extremely large part of west Cavan is not covered by the map. I was recently contacted by a man from Ballyconnell who told me he has two daughters who were doing college exams in the first week of January. They were doing those exams online and when they were submitting their papers, the Internet dropped for one of the daughters. She got it back up and running and submitted her paper with three minutes to spare. That sort of thing is putting considerable stress on people.

There is also massive frustration and, at times, anger in rural Ireland when people see that their neighbour across the road or a short distance up the road has broadband and they do not. People have told me there is high-speed fibre broadband a quarter of a mile up the road from their home and a quarter of a mile down the road from their home and the two or three houses in the middle are left with none. Those people have no reception whatsoever. They are annoyed. The frustration and anger is worse when such people see that according to the NDP, there is nothing planned for the area in which they live. It is worrying for the residents and an explanation of what is planned to rectify the issue would be much appreciated.

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