Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is no reason that Cork City Council and Cork County Council cannot work together. It is not a big job to get a broadband connection point, to be honest. We have been rolling them out across the country. We have been working with the broadband officers in the local authorities and they have given great service. In other counties where there is no broadband in the area we fund the connection of a broadband connection point. We have also funded different communities to provide the facilities they need for remote working, e-learning and the different things they can do in the broadband connection points.

I strongly recommend contacting the broadband officer in the local authority and making an application to get a connection point there. Nobody wants to see that number of people in an area without broadband. If the Deputy wishes to write to me about it, I will follow it up on his behalf. It is important in this day and age that people have a community space where they can access broadband.

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