Mr. T.J. Malone:

The first 1,636 premises will be released in Clare over the coming months. As I said when we came before the committee previously, each deployment area is further broken down and split into ribbons. Each ribbon has a number of houses in it. Each ribbon of fibre might have four or five different ribbons within it depending on the size of the deployment area. The first deployment area serving houses in Clare is fed from Limerick and it has a number of ribbons. They will start to be released from the end of this month onwards. In October and November we will see premises in Clare come live for the first deployment area, comprising 1,636 premises. The next one we will see is Gort and we will then see Kilkishen, which is the main one. This will be somewhere in the region of the first or second quarter of 2023. By the end of 2023, we will have approximately 5,500 premises covered and released in Clare. At present we have approximately 10,000 surveyed.