Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Communications Regulation and Network Resilience: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Patrick Neary:

Not so much. I will give the broad sweep of this. A blackspot is defined as a location that has less than 30 Mb service available. If we look at the market today, there are some 150,000 premises that have less than 30 Mb broadband service available. We are monitoring the deployment of the operators to address those areas. The vast majority of those are in the intervention area that is covered by NBI. It is planning to complete its roll-out by the end of next year. That will remove about 140,000 of those, so we would be down to between 10,000 and 15,000 that are dependent on commercial operators to deploy.

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