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

We all get the importance of remote working, especially in the circumstances in which we find ourselves, where it may be beneficial for people to reduce the amount of commuting they are doing - for multiple reasons at this stage. Those figures are definitely heading in a better direction than they have been. We just need to ensure that it is acceleration, acceleration, acceleration. I know that NBI has spoken about its need to either increase the amount of Eir make-ready products that they can use or that they would be able to use - what they have called a self-install product - which would enable it to finish more of this infrastructure. I ask for an update on that. We, at one stage, talked about acceleration from the point of view of this seven-year project becoming a five-year project. I think we are now talking about seven years becoming six years. The big question is about where we are on that.

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