Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion
Mr. T.J. Malone:
As Mr. Hendrick said earlier, just because we started in one county, it does not mean it is the only county. We bleed in across the boundaries. South Clare is up and running with 1,300 premises under construction in Clare. We feed back into Clare from Gort. In May next year, we will start to roll out in Kilkishen.
We have 4,500 premises in Clare. Overall, there is approximately 22,000 premises across Clare which fall into the intervention area. Within the next six months or so, we will have 4,700 of those premises under construction.
It is important to note that we are trying to bring every county together at the one time. We have a mandate to be in 26 counties over the course of the first two years. No county can feel it is being discriminated against or left to the end. We are bringing the entire country as a whole together. We cannot go in and just finish one county at a time. We will go in and do one area, come back out and keep rotating around the country.
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