Senator John McGahon - speech from 15 Feb 2021

That's a hard act to follow and the reason it's a hard act to follow is because Senator Currie has been talking about remote working long before Covid ever existed, you know, and it's a strong I'll second it, yeah, if you give me a few more seconds then after that. Senator Currie has been talking about this long before Covid even came along and we can see how impressive she is with it because of the clear, you know, and really detailed ideas she put forward about it and absolute credit has to be given to Emer for that. Very briefly, in my part of County Louth, the National Broadband Plan is going to have to play a really important part with remote working if remote working is going to be successful in the first place and I want to pay particular tribute to Fine Gael and in particular Fine Gael's website, finegael.ie forward slash broadband plan which was announced this morning Minister and you can go on to the Fine Gael website and you can look up 120 townlands in County Louth, you can look up any county in the country and of the 120 townlands in County Louth it'll tell you exactly what week and exactly what month they're scheduled to have the surveying carried out in their area, it gives you a totally up-to-date thing, it's actually more accessible and better than the MBI website so I'd like to pay a particular tribute to that.