Irish Examiner view: Targets fiasco of National Broadband Plan as rollout goes at a snail's pace

Only 4,000 connections have been made so far this year although the connection target for 2021 is 115,000

Public Accounts Committee chairman Brian Stanley said he had been told that only 4,000 connections had been made up to a few weeks ago. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

That the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) must press the Government on whether there are provisions in the National Broadband Plan for penalties if contractors fail to meet connection targets rubs salt into an already festering wound. 

How can there even be a question about this standard safeguard?