Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They would be delighted to have you there, a Cathaoirleach.

We were promised this would connect 540,000 homes. What is happening? Nil. It is absolutely impossible to get broadband in our area. We tried to get a direct line and we are now relying on satellite broadcasting, which is irregular and slow. It is a disaster. I never heard such hype over anything in the world. They said it would be like the ESB and they were going to have power in every house within a year. There were wires being laid here, there and everywhere. They are being laid nowhere.

As a former Minister of State with responsibility for post and telegraphs in the 1980s, I brought telephones all over Ireland at the time-----