Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development

Dr. Stjohn O'Connor:

The ambition was to bring high-speed connectivity to places in the most rural locations. I am not privy to decisions regarding when fibre is going to reach all those areas; that is a matter for NBI and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications. The whole purpose of the BCP project was to bring high-speed broadband to those locations which are isolated from other areas and where it is not available commercially. If we look at the BCP network and the associated map, and I have the details here if the Deputy is interested in looking at them afterwards, we can take it as read that across the country BCPs are located in some of the most isolated locations. We have BCPs on nine or ten islands now, and it does not get more isolated from commercial areas than those. Those BCPs will be transformative for those communities.

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