Dáil debates

Thursday, 27 January 2022

National Broadband Plan: Statements

 

2:55 pm

Photo of Ossian SmythOssian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I believe that the former Minister's target of reaching 90% of homes by 2024 related to all homes in Ireland and not just the national broadband intervention area. Maybe that is providing confusion. Some 22% of homes are in the intervention area. The intention was to reach, or that we would have done, 60% of them by the end of 2024. In other words, 60% of the intervention area homes would be done. That, added to the number of homes that were passed in the urban area, would give a figure of 90% of people with broadband above 30 MB. That is out of date at this stage. A speed of 30 MB per second is not a very high-speed connection any more. We will be revising our targets on that. In fact, our new national digital strategy will come out next week, which will include revised targets for how fast we expect home connections to be. Overall, the target for Ireland and Europe will be gigabit connection within a few years. There will more details on that at the start of next week. What was the Deputy's other question?

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