Mr. T.J. Malone:

That is no problem. As the Deputy said, Kilcoole is the furthest advanced at present. There are almost 2,000 premises in Kilcoole. We see all of Kilcoole being released back into the market as being available for service by December this year. We are hoping that it will start in November and bleed into December, but the 2,000 premises in Kilcoole will be available by December. We are also building out in Blessington. Blessington is one of those deployment areas that is quite large and spans a number of premises from a build point of view. It comes into the Kildare jurisdiction and also comes into south Dublin.

It comes into the back of City West, etc. There are approximately 1,400 premises in the Blessington area or in the Wicklow area. We have a number of ribbons there. We are working on the first four ribbons within Blessington to try and have them ready by the end of this year or in early January. The Blessington project is well advanced and making good progress. The next ones to come after that will be Redcross and Enniskerry. Both of them have been surveyed and designed, and will be part of the patches we are releasing in the next deployment areas once they go into construction.

If it is acceptable, I will jump back to Deputy Ó Murchú's questions. There are in the region of 8,800 or 8,900 premises in county Louth. The first two deployment areas there are Dundalk and Drogheda, which make up 4,300 premises. That means almost 50% of the premises are in the first two deployment areas. Dundalk is going very well and we will start to release premises in Dundalk in the coming weeks. We expect Dundalk to be completed and released by December. Drogheda is just starting construction at the moment. We are just working on some licensing issues in order to get the licences freed up for the Drogheda area. Some of them also bleed into Meath. We are also making good progress in Drogheda. As I said, 4,325 of the 8,791 premises are in the first two deployment areas in Louth.