Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

The lack of high-speed broadband is squeezing the life out of rural Ireland. There is widespread concern and dismay that it might be delayed further. I welcome 15,000 premises, or the one third, which will get high-speed broadband within the next 18 months, but what about the other two thirds, the other 30,000? When will they get it? From reports and from a question to which the Minister responded, it suggests that the roll-out of broadband for that 30,000 will not commence until January 2019. Will the Minister confirm the position in regard to those 30,000 premises in Tipperary and the equivalent across the country? When will the work start and when will the installation commence and when will it be completed? We will be seven years on from the initial announcement of the national broadband plan.

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