In respect of the roll-out of rural broadband, the contractual obligations with regard to the contract to service areas throughout the country are the responsibility of one Department and remain so. When that contract is awarded, the roll-out of the requirement for broadband and task forces throughout the country will shift because of the emphasis laid in the past 80 days on regional and rural development.

That is hardly efficient, is it?

The complications in trying to extract the contractual details from a Department would be enormously complex. The contract will proceed in the Department as is. When that contract is signed and awarded, its roll-out will take place through the Department of regional development, rural affairs, arts and the Gaeltacht-----

That is a recipe for inefficiency.

It is pathetic. I cannot believe it is in two Departments.

-----and by task forces throughout the country, the contract having been awarded.