Note: This has been sitting in my drafts for awhile and given that Ryan is supposed to make an announcement today I thought I’ll post it as is and then see how wrong I end up being shown to be :)

Damien Mulley does a great job digging various things up with his FOI requests and as usual, his latest one is interesting reading. Read that post for the main thrust of what this request brought out. My post is mainly a whining rant, partially related to that post, on some other bits I noticed in the returned document. 

If you read the document that’s linked in Mulley’s post, you’ll see that it consists of a lot of the usual guff that such documents are always padded with. There are the usual gems though:

“The NBS objectives are integral to the Economic and Social Infrastructure Priorities set out in Ireland’s National Development Plan 2007-2013, namely ‘To promote the availability of competitive broadband services and to achieve nationwide broadband coverage by the end of the Plan period.’“

It’s truly scary to read that the target for completion of national broadband rollout is 2013. This is at shocking odds with what Minister Ryan said on RTE’s Prime Time some time ago; that national broadband would be achieved by the end of this year (2008).